Pieces of Me: My Life in Seven Garments

Pieces of Me is a podcast series from PORTER in which Incredible Women – from Tracee Ellis Ross, Halima Aden and Sam Taylor Johnson to Zainab Salbi – tell their stories through the clothing that they wore at defining moments of their lives. Each week a different inspiring woman takes us “behind the seams” of her extraordinary life. Pieces of Me reminds us that clothes are never just clothes and that the meanings woven through them – about beauty, power, identity, freedom and fashion as a force for change – are the stories of women’s lives.

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Anya Hindmarch

Designer Anya Hindmarch is a veritable ideas machine. The daughter of an entrepreneur father and a French teacher mother – who was “brilliant at presents” (prizes wrapped with beautiful bows inspired the original Anya Hindmarch logo) – Hindmarch started her accessories business as a teenager, inspired by the leather duffel bags she saw all around her on an early trip to Florence. One of the very first designers to stock her collection on NET-A-PORTER when the website launched in 2000, she attest...

Jun 25, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 8

Roksanda Ilincic

A fashion designer with an artist’s eye for bold, uncompromising color, Roksanda Ilincic studied architecture in Belgrade before following her dream to move to London and enrol at Central Saint Martins. There, she became part of a new generation of design talent that went on to transform London Fashion Week and the very definition of red-carpet dressing. Loved by women of substance the world over – her most recent front-row guests featured writer and activist Sinéad Burke and costume designer Sa...

Apr 29, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Halima Aden

Halima Aden is a true change-maker. Her brave decision in 2016 to enter the Miss Minnesota USA Contest – wearing a burkini in the swimsuit round – was a zeitgeist-changing moment. The very first hijab-wearing Vogue cover star, in just over three years, the Somali-American has redefined ideas of beauty, bringing diversity and visibility of Muslim women onto fashion’s front pages. Veteran fashion editor Carine Roitfeld was an early champion, casting Aden on the cover of her CR Fashion Boo k and fa...

Apr 15, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Arianne Phillips

Costume designer Arianne Phillips has made an indelible mark on our culture. From over 20 years styling Madonna to her unforgettable costume work on movies such as Tom Ford’s A Single Man and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (for which she was Oscar-nominated). In recent years, she has become increasingly focused on activism – using the red carpet as her platform. And, while she may be the queen of grand, show-stopping moment in her work, Phillips prefers to cut a more low-key f...

Apr 09, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Sinéad Burke

Sinéad Burke is an activist for inclusion, who believes fashion and design should include everybody. At 3ft 5in, she is a ‘little person’, as is her father. The eldest of five siblings (all of whom are of average height), she was raised – and continues to live – in Ireland. A lifelong fashion-obsessive, who would ask her parents to buy her the September issue of British and American Vogue for her birthday, she initially worked as a schoolteacher. Indeed, it was a teacher-training assignment to s...

Apr 01, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Zainab Salbi

Zainab Salbi is the very definition of inspirational. A women's-rights activist, author and speaker with a powerful commitment to freedom; she grew up in liberal, educated 1970s Iraq - a gilded childhood that was blighted when her family became closely entwined with Saddam Hussein. After 'escaping' Iraq to America for an arranged marriage to a man who ultimately abused her, she once again had to flee for her safety. In 1993, when she was just 23 years old, Salbi formed the humanitarian organizat...

Mar 25, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Filmmaker and photographer Sam Taylor-Johnson rose to prominence as one of the rule-breaking Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s Brit Art scene. She went on to capture public imagination with her one-hour video portrait of David Beckham sleeping, a film that explores masculinity, vulnerability and fame itself. A two-times cancer survivor, there is a biographical narrative in her work about the body and identity, loss and hope - sometimes subtle, sometimes overt, but always witty, thoughtfu...

Mar 18, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Tracee Ellis Ross

A brilliant raconteur and a bold advocate for social change, no-one owns a red-carpet moment quite like Tracee Ellis Ross. And few know how to use those moments in the spotlight to raise issues about equality, representation and calling out sexual violence quite like her. The award-winning actor best known for the boundary-pushing TV sitcom Black-ish is , of course, the daughter of the Motown superstar Diana Ross. In this episode of Pieces of Me, Tracee talks about that extraordinary inheritance...

Mar 11, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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Mar 04, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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