American Fashion Podcast

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024 – former Calvin Klein design team member Asanti Austin and LIM College Fashion Librarian Nicole LaMoreaux – The American Fashion Podcast Oct 29, 2014

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Are you tired of “it?” Guests, stylist and former Calvin Klein / London Fog design and production team member Asanti Austin, and LIM College Reference and Instruction Librarian Nicole LaMoreaux, discuss fashion labels dabbling in cosmetics, normcore, personal style apps, fashion labels gone but not forgotten, art and fashion history as an important foundation for design education, and many other topics.

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Stylitics (personal style app)
Planogram retail store layout software (website)
LIM College’s Fashion: Now & Then conference (website)
Hecht Sewing Machine & Motor Company (Yelp)
Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis: Bill Cunningham recalls the greatest fashion show he’s ever seen (clip)
Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution (documentary)
Hedi Slimane highlights the undercarriage of designer beauty brands (Financial Times, register to read)
Fashion labels move into make-up (Financial Times, register to read)
Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers (book)
Gap Just Wants You to ‘Dress Normal,’ Okay? (The Cut)
Inside the World of Ed Burstell (WWD / paywall)
Suzanne Rae
Lindsay Degen
Edmundo Castillo
Isabel and Ruben Toledo
Tuleh
Norma Kamali
SCORE Business Mentor Search

023 – Juliette Donatelli – sustainable fashion Oct 23, 2014

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Fair trade Juliette. Fashion sustainability expert Juliette Donatelli talks local and global fashion issues. Lots of brands to check out in our references section below. Photos from the Reem Acra Bridal show accompany this episode.

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Fashion and Sustainability (book)
spades + siLK
Suzanne Rae
Everlane
Dirty Librarian Chains
Tabii Just
Study NY (Tara St. James)
Maiyet
Suno
An Industry in Denial: Fashion’s Struggle with Compliance (Business of Fashion)
The High Cost of Cheap Clothes (Vice)
The What’s Underneath Project (spades + siLK)
Style.com’s favorite street-style snaps from Tokyo fashion week
StyleWylde
Joe Versus The Volcano (IMDB)
Loren (denim repair)
Victor de Souza headwear launch (lookonline.com)

Reem Acra Bridal runway photos by Charles Beckwith

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Episode 22: Lisa Padovani – Boardwalk Empire, Gotham, Mad Men costume designer – The American Fashion Podcast Oct 15, 2014

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The dark bow tie rises. Special guest, costume designer Lisa Padovani, known for her work on television shows such as Boardwalk Empire, Gotham, and the Mad Men pilot, as well as feature films like I’m Not There, The Notorious Bettie Page, Factory Girl, and The Departed. After the interview, the hosts dive into a pile of recent WWD issues and discuss current events in the fashion industry.

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021 – What happened to Barneys? – The American Fashion Podcast Oct 10, 2014

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What happened to Barneys? Seth talks about his recent visit to a new garment factory in New Jersey with international ties. Lisa turns to PBS for inspiration after a bad day shopping on Madison Avenue.

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020 – Taking Liberty – Manufacture New York moves to Brooklyn – The American Fashion Podcast Oct 03, 2014

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Taking Liberty. Manufacture New York moves its headquarters into the (cavernous and echoing) facility where it will eventually build a massive 160,000 square foot manufacturing innovation center. The gang discusses why collaborative factories make sense for small and medium-sized fashion brands, the dangers of taking venture capital and relying on apps and services from startup companies that could close or change in an afternoon, and a Made In USA web site where t-shirt graphics are crowd-sourced from one of the strangest communities on the Internet.

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The Fashion Law: Forever 21 Sues Other Brands for Copying
OS Fashion: A Revolution Paused
Fast Company: Inside The Fashion Incubator That’s Hacking Global Manufacturing
Aral Balkan: Ello isn’t as indie as you might think it is.
Archive.org: The Wayback Machine
4chan makes t-shirts: thatshirtwascash.com

019 – Christopher Grayson – wearable tech – Chindōgu Internet of Things – The American Fashion Podcast Sep 25, 2014

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Chindōgu Internet of Things. Charles and Lisa attended Swissnex Boston’s Zero Power Smart Fashion conference recently, heard a lot about the “Internet of Things,” and met this episode’s guest Christopher Grayson, who announced his new product, the Smart Jewel, at the Swissnex event near the end of the most recent New York Fashion Week. Joining the discussion this week, Manufacture New York chief strategy officer (and technology enthusiast), Rob Sanchez. Topics discussed cover everything from the usefulness of 3D body scanning technology for custom fit clothing, to issues with consumers pre-funding designs.

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018 – Udor (runway photographer) – the right way to runway – The American Fashion Podcast Sep 18, 2014

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The right way to runway. Udor, veteran runway photographer, joins us to talk about New York Fashion Week. Charles hits the trade shows for Market Week and comes back with lots of new Made in USA brand names to talk about. Gretchen Harnick from Parsons talks about the online fashion education community she just launched. Charles and Udor talk about what should and should not happen on the runway. Lisa’s Ralph Rucci show review transports us to a poetic realm.

references:

Udor Photography
Modu
Slow Factory
Paola Hernandez
Holographic Universe
Cade
Related
LACAUSA
Svilu
Zero Gravity
Second Clothing
Donni Charm
Kora Rae
Benjamin Jay
Abacaxi
Meskita
JNBY
Loris Diran
Pattern To Plan
Freestyle Fashion Conference Kickstarter
Suzy Menkes also likes Ralph Rucci (hit the little UK flag for the English version)

photos by Charles Beckwith and Udor Photography

017 – designers Karolyn Pho and Katya Leonovich – New York Fashion Week – The American Fashion Podcast Sep 15, 2014

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So many shiny things! — Huddled just out of the rain, looking out at the Hudson from Chelsea Piers between shows, Seth, Charles, and Lisa do a rundown of all the New York Fashion Week shows they’ve seen since the last episode. There are many. Between talk of the new collections, lots of information about how it all fits together in a business and marketing perspective. Backstage interviews with Karolyn Pho and Katya Leonovich.

photos by Charles Beckwith

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016 – New York Fashion Week begins – The American Fashion Podcast Sep 05, 2014

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Taking the Highline. It’s New York Fashion Week, day #2, and the gang pauses for a few minutes on the Highline between shows and presentations to report in on the Spring-Summer 2015 collections they’ve seen so far.

photos by Charles Beckwith

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references:

Antonio Azzuolo
Carlos Campos
Nasir Mazhar interview on ShowStudio.com
Tia Cibani
Degen (see also Episode #5)
Houghton
Creatures of Comfort

015 – Bob Bland – Manufacture New York founder – The American Fashion Podcast Aug 27, 2014

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That time Bob showed up. Manufacture New York CEO and Founder Bob Bland is our guest, leading to a rambling discussion of the new Brooklyn Made certification, fast fashion, Manufacture New York itself, fashion and politics, and designers to watch during New York Fashion Week, as well as an obligatory Jamie Kennedy quote.

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