# Ep. 578 - Alicia Kite - Fashion entrepreneur, academy founder and shapewear designer Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-time-capsule-820893/ep-578-alicia-kite-fashion-entrepreneur-academy-founder-and-shapewear-designer Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-time-capsule-820893/ep-578-alicia-kite-fashion-entrepreneur-academy-founder-and-shapewear-designer.md Podcast: [My Time Capsule](https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-time-capsule-820893) Published: 2026-04-16T23:02:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/mytimecapsule/episodes/ep-578-alicia-kite-fashion-entrepreneur-academy-founder-and Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/mytimecapsule/e/69e0f77ea0cdd3989c45df16/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-time-capsule-820893/episodes/ep-578-alicia-kite-fashion-entrepreneur-academy-founder-and-shapewear-designer Duration seconds: 3182 ## Resource Alicia Kite is one of the UK's most pioneering figures in fashion. She opened her first luxury designer boutique at 19 — becoming one of the first UK retailers to stock Moschino and growing Alicia Kite into a five-store fashion destination, working with Prada and Dolce & Gabbana. She went on to launch Begin Again, a designer resale concept that was ahead of the sustainability curve by decades, before channelling her expertise into personal styling and the Alicia Kite Academy — now 20 years old, and responsible for training an entire generation of image consultants across the UK. Her latest venture is her own shapewear brand, designed from the ground up to be breathable, comfortable, and stylish enough to show off — not hide in. From teenage entrepreneur to academy founder to product designer, Alicia Kite has spent over three decades reshaping how women think about fashion, confidence, and what they wear. Alicia Kite is our guest in episode 578 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For everything Alicia Kite including her shapewear and personal fashion consultancy, visit - https://www.aliciakite.co.uk . Follow Alicia Kite on Instagram : @aliciakiteshapewear . Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram : @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter /X & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter /X: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-time-capsule-820893/episodes/ep-578-alicia-kite-fashion-entrepreneur-academy-founder-and-shapewear-designer/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-time-capsule-820893/ep-578-alicia-kite-fashion-entrepreneur-academy-founder-and-shapewear-designer.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.