American Fashion Podcast

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014 – Ron Wallace (designer – NAMM New York) and Jonathan Pak (boutique owner – Patron of The New) – The American Fashion Podcast Aug 20, 2014

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The Jets are in gear. Designer Ron Wallace (NAMM New York) and boutique retailer Jonathan Pak (Patron of The New) are helping us get into the now and today of streetwear’s highs and lows.

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Patron of The New
Namm New York
Stussy
Supreme
10 Deep
Hood By Air
KTZ
En Noir
Idol Brooklyn
Balmain
Rick Owens
Off-White
“Streetwear’s New Guard” (BoF)
Superfuture’s forum
The Harmless Far East Eses (the Mexican Gangster trend)
Julius
Gareth Pugh

013 – designer Abigail Stewart – The American Fashion Podcast Aug 13, 2014

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Go cry to Miami. Designer Abigail Stewart launched her line in one of the most tumultuous periods for the garment industry in recent memory, yet keeps making it work season after season with brilliant collections. Our conversation here goes deep into what worked and what didn’t during her emergence in the marketplace, and touches highly relevant points on the perpetual struggle all designers face between the demands of business and artistry. Also, the zipper is a lie, and Betty White is so hot right now.

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Abigail Stewart on Twitter and on Instagram
The End of the $1 Billion Fashion Brand (BoF)
Who is Anne Chapelle? (Financial Times)
Who is Ann Demeulemeester? (Wikipedia)
RepMode (PR)
Alchemist (store in Miami)
first2print (digital printing on fabric)
Crescala (showroom)
Juju The Showroom

Episode 12: 012 – Bob Bland moderates a textile sourcing panel at TexWorld – The American Fashion Podcast Aug 06, 2014

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Future sources abound. This episode features a recording from a panel discussion on textile sourcing from the TexWorld trade show, “TOOLS FOR TRANSPARENCY IN THE GLOBAL FASHION SUPPLY CHAIN,” with panelists Benita Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, Source4Style; Leonardo Bonanni, PhD, CEO, Founder, Sourcemap Inc.; and Pranay Srinivasan, Founder/CEO, Sourceasy. The moderator is Bob Bland, CEO and Founder of Manufacture New York.

* There are some sound quality issues at several points due to feedback from speakers mounted in the ceiling directly over the panelists’ microphones. We have done our best to filter out the feedback noise, but were dependent on the venue’s audio system for the live source recording, and some artifacts remain, unfortunately.

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Episode 11: 011 – The CFDA just swallowed Fashion Calendar, so let’s talk about that – The American Fashion Podcast Jul 31, 2014

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The CFDA just swallowed Fashion Calendar, so let’s talk about that. The gang provides analysis of the CFDA’s most recent acquisition, Seth talks about his recent week of textile and menswear trade show experiences as well as a factory visit, and the questions “is fashion an evolved industry?” and “why is there no New York version of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week?” get some scrutiny.

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Episode 10: 010 – Alexandra Lin (designer), Fran Knight (production manager), Woody Pierce (retailer -The Gentleman Place), Andrew Levy (fashiontech startup Ovio) – The American Fashion Podcast Jul 26, 2014

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Our TexWorld excursion. We trekked over to the Javitz Center for the TexWorld trade show this week. The TexWorld folks were nice enough to give Manufacture New York a booth to show what we’re doing about bringing garment manufacturing back to The United States, and they let American Fashion Podcast borrow a conference room to record this episode on-site at the show. While there, we interviewed designers Alexandra Lin and Fran Knight who were visiting from Florida, as well as retailer/designer Woody Pierce of The Gentleman Place in Brooklyn, and Andrew Levy from the fashion tech start-up Ovio.

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TexWorld USA
Alexandra Lin
The Gentlemen’s Shop
Ovio
E-Commerce Site Offers Pre-Worn Wedding Gowns (WWD / paywall)

Episode 9: 009 – vintage lingerie with Colleen Hill (The Museum at FIT) – The American Fashion Podcast Jul 16, 2014

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Coraline gets exposed! This episode covers everything from corsets to tea gowns, and other things that lurk beneath the pleats. Our guest this week is Colleen Hill, an associate curator at The Museum at FIT. She created the current exhibition, “Exposed: A History of Lingerie,” which will be open through November 15th.

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Episode 8: 008 – Cristina Gabriele (Heart + Noble designer) – The American Fashion Podcast Jul 09, 2014

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Oh, this young thing? Questions of originality: when new is old, and old is new, are you still you? This week’s guest is a Manufacture New York incubator member, Heart and Noble jewelry designer Cristina Gabriele. The gang discusses a wide range of topics in this episode, from Made in America’s upswing, to new clients for haute couture and what may happen to it, to the next big thing expected from Apple. Big thanks to experimental musician Aimee Norwich for hooking us up with a new sound mixing board; her song “Child” plays at the end of the show.

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Flat 128
Pringle of Scotland
The Antwerp Six
- Walter Van Beirendonck
- Ann Demeulemeester
- Dries Van Noten
- Dirk Van Saene
- Dirk Bikkembergs
- Marina Yee
- see also: Martin Margiela
Atelier360
speculation about the iWatch (BoF / Reuters)
Made In American Back In Fashion (WWD / Paywall)
Younger Clients Drive Growth of Couture (WWD / Paywall)
Garment Industry Development Corporation (GIDC)
Garment District Business Improvement District
CFDA Incubator
Daniel Vosovic
Gemma Redux
Prabal Gurung
Timo Weiland
Christian Cota (site down at time of publication)
Jonathan Simkhai
The HOPE Conference

Episode 7: 007 – Rogue Tailors Mack Moze and Alexander Mars – The American Fashion Podcast Jul 03, 2014

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Tailor made in America. Charles Beckwith makes a statement about why this podcast is being made, and then professional tailors Alexander Mars and Mack Moze speak in-depth on bespoke clothing and men’s style. Why should you seldom dry-clean a suit? Why do suits have vents? Why have slight variations of the suit persisted as a male uniform for so long? What makes a good first suit? All questions addressed in this episode of… American Fashion Podcast.

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Mack Moze
Alexander Mars on LinkedIn
Alexander Mars website (nothing there yet)

Episode 6: 006 – I’ll tell you about trends, Missy! – designers Diana Barbosa and Almudena Alcaide – The American Fashion Podcast Jun 26, 2014

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I’ll tell you about trends, Missy! Contemporary fashion designers Diana Barbosa and Almudena Alcaide talk about being creative within the constraints of the profitable but often stagnant “missy” segment of the garment industry. Charles forecasts key 2015 lifestyle trends.

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Episode 5: Lindsay Degen – Just keep knitting – The American Fashion Podcast Jun 19, 2014

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Just keep knitting. Designer Lindsay Degen talks knitwear, business, creativity, subway safety, and social media avoidance strategies. Also, some discussion about Ebay and Alibaba both launching ecommerce destinations for designer fashion, and the fact that a designer actually got her eponymous brand name back from a corporation recently.

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