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#71 Maria Intscher-Owrang: Pour It, Mold It, Wear It - A New Way To Make Clothing In America
I sit down with Maria Intscher-Owrang, co-founder and CEO of Simplifyber, to discuss their completely new way to produce soft goods with natural fibers. Her invention collapses textile production down to a single 100-second molding step. No spinning, weaving, cutting, or sewing required.
After 24 years designing for Vera Wang, Calvin Klein, and Alexander McQueen, Maria experienced how outdated soft goods manufacturing really is. We get into why cheap labor is the main blocker to reshoring textile production and why her real end game is selling the machine, not the product.
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