Foncėne Voices Foncėne

Episode Notes
Pietro Lo Casto is an ascending star in the world of photography. After a few years of working in tech, starting with Apple in London, where we met, Pietro went on a quest to revisit his way of life and found a few clues in Asia. Before earning a full scholarship for an MFA in Visual Arts at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, he studied photography at the Pathshala Institute, Bangladesh. Launched into the public eye after becoming a Canon award-winner only two years after starting his practice, his work makes us questions our relationship with the natural world we live in and examine how we cohabit with native and often displaced inhabitants of a place, humans or not. You can follow Pietro's work on Instagram @pietrolocasto or his website pietrolocasto.com

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Suki is the cofounder and creative director of our brand Foncėne. Before becoming a National Portrait gallery artist and competing in cycling, she joined IBM's Design program in Texas, where she learnt the principles of User Experience. She went on to design web interfaces for MOO, a high-end design print business in London and then helped rethink government services at social impact agency Snook. We talk about parenthood, long-term decision-making and the influence of her professional experiences on footwear as an art and experience.

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By day, Alex is a software engineer at Bulb, a renewable energy company. By night, she's a singer, composer and what I call an artist of life. She studied neurosciences at John Hopkins in Maryland, computer science at Imperial college London, and co-founded Some Whimsy—an art / screen printed t-shirt company. In this interview we talk about how she — in her own words —  enjoys sitting inside her computer, how handstands changed her life, creating a business, shopping on top of Mount Kilimanjaro and her favourite pair of shoes. You can follow her on twitter @alexpolise.

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Foncėne Voices is a podcast series produced by Foncėne—a London-based vegan shoe brand—hosted by co-founder PJ Baudoin. To understand what makes a shoe lasting and timeless, PJ asked independent thinkers, creatives, entrepreneurs and artists: ‘what shoes would you never let go of?’. They share with us how they live, work and move, consciously—presenting new ways of thinking about sustainability and long-term thinking. The interviews will be published in a visual coffee-table book but the raw recordings are an accidental piece of magic. In this podcast, you get to experience their undiluted power. These interviews were recorded prior to 2020's Covid-19 pandemic but their relevance still stands—perhaps even more so. We hope you enjoy.

Saskia is a photojournalist for the New York Times, a writer and a NGO entrepreneur. She's the youngest person leading a Bordeaux first growth wine business. 2 years ago, she learnt the ins and outs of œnology or the art of designing wine, before taking the helm of her family's century old, legendary vineyard, Chateau Lafite. In this interview, you will learn about how she's reshaping business and agriculture practices to define and introduce their wine into the next era. You can follow her on twitter @saskia_RO. One quick note on timings for context: this episode was recorded on March 30th 2019, before the events of the coronavirus epidemic.