Episode 02 — Gordana Stevancevic

Gordana Stevancevic was born in Belgrade and moved to Italy with her family after the bombing of Serbia in 1999. She studied economics and entrepreneurship, and later completed postgraduate work in medical cannabis at the University of Padua. Her path eventually led her into textile hemp, where she’s focused on rethinking materials through a lens of sustainability, function, and design.In this conversation, we get into how that shift happened, what drew her specifically to hemp textiles, and what it looks like to build in a space that sits somewhere between fashion, material science, and industry. We talk about the early days of Hemp-Style Magazine, her work with Steva Hemp, and what it actually takes to create products like hemp bedding from the ground up.This is a conversation about materials, about perspective, and about what it looks like to move across countries, industries, and ideas, while staying anchored in something consistent underneath it all.