American Fashion Podcast

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034 – Ina Bernstein Recycles Your Closet – The American Fashion Podcast Jan 23, 2015

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Re-commerce retailer Ina Bernstein talks about her INA Designer Consignment stores, which help New Yorkers clear and restock their closets with great fashion.

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033 – Sass Brown Is Down To Earth With Juliette Donatelli – The American Fashion Podcast Jan 15, 2015

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More about global fashion and its interconnectedness in this episode, with some of Sass Brown’s great stories from her travels in fashion around the world. Author and educator Sass Brown talks sustainable responsible potentially flammable fashion with the AFP gang, and Juliette Donatelli of Spades and SiLK drops in to join the conversation on her way to the opera.

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Spades and Silk
Carlos Miele
Suno
Maiyet
Eco Fashion (book by Sass Brown)
ReFashioned (book by Sass Brown)
Higg Index
Patagonia
Loomstate
Alabama Chanin (Natalie Chanin)
Fashion Positive
Biocouture (Suzanne Lee)
Catalytic Clothing (Helen Storey)
NYC Textile Week Comes Into Focus (WWD / paywall)
The Coming Crash Of Michael Kors… Take It To The Bank (Forbes.com)
Alexandre Herchcovitch
Paul Smith
Estethica
LZR Racer
From Somewhere (Orsola de Castro)
Moschino Pre-Fall 2015 (style.com)
Do Fashion Trends Still Exist (BoF)

032 – Andrew Livingston Makes and Richard Spiegel Takes – The American Fashion Podcast Jan 06, 2015

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Designer & manufacturer Andrew Livingston (Knickerbocker Manufacturing) and veteran fashion photographer Richard Spiegel (The Fashion Tribune) are in the studio, discussing local sustainable manufacturing, demonstrating value to consumers, ethical wages, upcoming changes at New York Fashion Week, and the recent clubbing of Wet Seal.

http://vimeo.com/76473858

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The Fashion Tribune
Knickerbocker Manufacturing
Nanette Lepore sells majority stake to Bluestar (WWD / paywall)
Changes at NYFW (WWD / paywall)
Wet Seal Employees Post A Brutal Sign In A Dying Store To Protest Management (Business Insider)
Important Fashion Week Dates (Fashion Calendar)
Mitchell and Ness
Ebbets Field Flannels
Schott
Pointer Brand
Controversial Child Labour Video Is Fake, Says H&M (Vogue.com)
Fawcett Society rejects “slave” labour claims (Third Force News)
ICNY
Liberty Fairs
Sir New York

Episode 31: Since 2014 – The American Fashion Podcast Dec 18, 2014

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Looking forward, looking back. Seth talks Pre-Fall shows, including Oscar de la Renta’s final collection. Even Gucci can’t stay cool forever: discussing reinvention, or the lack thereof. Looking back at 2014 and ahead at 2015.

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The Fashion Law
Syle.com
Clover Canyon
Alexander Wang
Prabal Gurung
Donna Karan
“Wes Gordon Revives a Fashion Tradition” (misleading title) (NY Times)
Carolina Herrera
Naeem Khan
Amazon Workers Strike in Germany as Christmas Orders Peak (WWD / paywall)
Supreme Court Decides Amazon Workers Don’t Need to Be Paid While Waiting for Mandatory Security Screenings (Slate)
Roma (film)
Frida Giannini and Patrizio di Marco to Exit Gucci (BoF / Bloomberg)
Gucci Parts Ways With Giannini in Bid to Regain Lost Exclusivity (BoF / Bloomberg)
‘Sleeping Beauty’ Brands: Myth or Magic Formula? (BoF)

Episode 30: Fashion History With Phyllis Dillon – The American Fashion Podcast Dec 13, 2014

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Phyllis Dillon, the researcher and producer behind the recent PBS documentary Dressing America: Tales from The Garment Center, talks pre-historic textiles, the rise of ready to wear garments in America, and the history of Jewish immigrants in the garment industry. Separately, Charles interviews Melissa McGraw of The Fashion Potential about her continuing education workshops for fashion designers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56l-CL6u_tQ

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Yeshiva University Museum
A Perfect Fit (book)
Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (book)
Hickey Freeman
Hecht Sewing Machine and Motor Company
Duckie Brown
Men of The Cloth (documentary)

029 – That week we got $3.5M to be awesome – The American Fashion Podcast Dec 05, 2014

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That week we got $3.5M to build the Manufacturing Innovation Hub for Apparel, Textiles, and Wearable Technology. Wearable isn’t there yet, the worst product ever made, making malls better, and an American couture palace falls into chaos under barbarian rule.

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028 – Crowdfunding with Dimitri Koumbis of Bishop Collective – The American Fashion Podcast Nov 26, 2014

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Getting the package. Bishop Collective co-founder Dimitri Koumbis talks e-tail shop operations and crowdfunding. What’s wrong with traditional shopping malls? Charles reports on what Macy’s and DvF execs had to say at the Decoded Fashion New York Summit. Lisa talks about Patti Smith and Ann Demeulemeester, and how you create new authentic things.

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Episode 27: Crispin Argento, founder of Portland Apparel Lab – The American Fashion Podcast Nov 20, 2014

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A talent-based industry. Crispin Argento, founder of Portland Apparel Lab, has been traveling around the world trying to understand what designers need in terms of business support to grow their brands. This episode covers much of what he has been studying, from process to investment. In an exclusive clip from the Initiatives In Art and Culture Fashion Conference, Naeem Khan weighs in on the story about Ralph Rucci leaving his own company and how designers need to think about owning and selling their brand identities. In other clips from the same conference, Charles Beckwith argues with an Under Armour executive about textile waste, and interviews MJSA education director Peggy Jo Donahue about Made In USA issues for jewelry producers.

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Portland Apparel Lab
Pino
“The Portland Apparel Lab (and the Hopefully Hopeful Future of Manufacturing in General)” – The Portland Mercury
“Business accelerator for the fashion crowd nears launch” – Portland Business Journal
Patagonia
Jantzen
Pendleton
A.C.P.
Naeem Khan
Everlane
Buffalo-Area Mall Threatens To Fine Stores That Don’t Open On Thanksgiving – The Huffington Post
Style Rookie
Initiatives In Art and Culture’s Fashion Conference
Hijacking The Runway (b00k)
Goop
Ralph Rucci Leaves His Namesake Label – Fashionista
Ralph Rucci to step away from his company – Emperor’s Old Clothes
Materialise
Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America

026 – Lisa Dolan, Savile Row Society CEO – The American Fashion Podcast Nov 13, 2014

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The value of curation. Lisa Dolan, CEO of Savile Row Society, speaks about her company’s remodel of the personal stylist concept, as well as issues in fashion business to business (b2b) e-commerce. Rob Sanchez sits in and talks fashiontech startups and business pitfalls. Seth ponders how brands can keep the right stock on hand, and it leads into discussion of new methods of wholesale inventory management. Can just in time business work in the fashion business? Shopping big city boutiques from anywhere. Bringing knowledgeable human interaction to e-commerce, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.

Decoded Fashion’s New York Summit is coming up next week – November 18-19 in Manhattan

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025 – Gretchen Harnick of Parsons and Pattern To Plan – American Fashion Podcast Nov 05, 2014

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Gretchen Harnick (Parson’s, The New School for Design) joins the team to talk about the current fashion business environment. Is bad marketing ruining social media? Are new payment methods like Apple Pay safe to use?Why does Kim Kardashian have 20 times more online followers than Vogue? Why don’t retailers stock the new and different anymore?

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Decoded Fashion’s New York Summit (November 18-19)
PatternToPlan.com, an online designer community for fashion business knowledge and resource sharing
Is Marketing Ruining Social Media? (gretchenharnick.com)
fun NYC restaurants
- Arturo’s
- Pho 32
- New Wonjo
Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade (NY Times)
Mired In Mediocrity (NY Times)
Shoescribe
Wal-Mart’s Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked (Business Insider)
Obama’s Cyber Czar Wants to Replace Passwords With Selfies (National Journal)
Halloween Costumes Treat Americans to Jobs (ABC News)
The Future of Shopping, Part Two: Federico Marchetti (style.com)
Telegraph Lays Off 55 Employees, Including Senior Fashion Staff (BoF)
Vanessa Friedman’s Fashion Manifesto (fashioneditoratlarge.com)
How Kim Kardashian Is Changing the Fashion Industry
Fashion’s B Corporations Blend Business with Social Good (BoF)
Decoded Fashion’s New York Summit (November 18-19)
Lovelane (ETSY)
Opposite of Far (ETSY)
Little Hero Capes (ETSY)
SuperflyKids
Ohio Knitting Mills
FIT’s Natural Dye Garden Set for Next Step
We Are All Prudes Now: Why Outrage Has Replaced Outragousness (People of Shambhala)
Dover Street Market New York
Patron of The New
If Soho
Jeffrey New York
La Garconne
Net-A-Porter

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