Alicia Kite “Mum wore elegance in the absence of love”

Host Sonia Beldom welcomes stylist Alicia Kite to Mumbelievable, a podcast exploring how mums shape their children. Alicia shares how her mother, Fawn, loved clothes as a source of joy and identity, collecting and caring for special pieces and inspiring Alicia’s 40-year career helping women feel confident through style. She recalls humorous moments like finding Fawn hiding extra clothes in a wardrobe and a car filled with hatched maggots from helping Alicia’s father’s bait business. Alicia reflects on her father’s charisma, affairs, and control over Fawn’s ambitions, and the heartbreak of discovering Fawn’s private “pink book” expressing a lifelong longing to be loved. Alicia wishes she’d asked her mother more, vows not to live “as a pink book,” and says Audrey Hepburn would play Fawn in a film.00:00 Into to Mumbelievable00:59 Meet Alicia Sia01:53 Wardrobe Emotions03:13 Mum Loved Clothes04:49 The Hidden Wardrobe07:06 Shopping as Joy10:20 Clothes as Armor13:33 The Pink Book15:59 Healing Conversations17:15 Regrets and Resolve18:05 Codependency and Control19:15 Maggot Farm Mayhem21:33 Cafe Dreams and Hotel Move23:32 Rebuilding After Loss25:04 Fawn’s Early Life27:29 No Filter Mother in Law28:36 Self Worth Lesson29:40 Audrey Hepburn Casting30:20 Why She Was Mumbelievable31:07 Closing Thanks and Farewell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.