What Style Remembers | Talia Bella on Black Sustainable Fashion, Vintage & Style Culture

Sustainable fashion, vintage style and cultural storytelling come together in this conversation with creative director, stylist and vintage curator Talia Bella. Discover how Black and brown communities have long practiced sustainability through fashion, resourcefulness, creativity and living archives that transcend trends. What does your style remember? In Episode 51 of Compost, Cotton & Cornrows, Dominique sits down with Talia Bella who is creative director, stylist, vintage curator and image consultant, and unearths a deeply personal conversation that challenges everything we think we know about sustainable fashion. Together, they move beyond conversations about organic fabrics and production practices to explore style as survival, identity, healing and cultural memory. Drawing from her upbringing between Washington, D.C. and New York, Talia reflects on how family, vintage clothing and community shaped her relationship with fashion long before sustainability became an industry buzzword. Throughout the conversation, Dominique and Talia explore: Black sustainable fashion and cultural sustainability Vintage fashion as living archives and storytelling Slow fashion, circular fashion and conscious consumption The invisible labor behind the fashion industry Supporting emerging designers and protecting creative integrity Why sustainability should never be mistaken for scarcity Navigating fashion as Black women with authenticity and intention How clothing can become an expression of resilience, self-definition and collective memory. Tap into this powerful episode!