Want to START your fashion brand? Join our free fashion business course here: https://www.beyondfashionbusiness.com/school Want to GROW your fashion brand? Join our community of fashion entrepreneurs here: https://www.skool.com/beyond-fashion-business-4206/about In this week's episode, we sat down with APPARIS founders Amelie Brick and Lauren Nouchi APPARIS (https://www.instagram.com/apparis/?hl=en) is a fashion brand that is redefining ethical fashion. They offer elevated alternatives to luxury animal derived products like leather and faux fur,and have multiple famous investors like supermodel Karlie Kloss. APPARIS is a perfect case study for any fashion entrepreneurs or designers that aspire to build the ethical brands of the future, or at least learn how to become a more ethical conscious brand. This episode is a masterclass on the foundations that you need to understand in order to start an ethical fashion brand, or implement a more ethically conscious approach to your products. Due to the deep nature of this topic, this conversation will be divided into 2 parts. In this first part of our conversation revolved around building your first product, building your production infrastructure, your most important roles and first team hires, expanding into other categories, and an introduction on building the foundations necessary for growth and scale.