American Fashion Podcast — exploring innovation and sustainability across the industry

Conversation with leaders of three companies making the charge toward better use of fabric for sustainability production and a closed loop for textiles.

In the studio, Simon Collins, former Dean of Fashion at Parson's: The New School of Design, founder of Fashion Culture Design: The Unconference, and a globally recognized speaker on the subject of good design. Simon talks about retail fatigue,

Already a star of the sustainable fashion world, Tabii Just designer Tabitha St. Bernard has decided she wants her company to be about more than just selling clothes. This episode explores her pivot away from wholesale accounts to being a lifestyle bra...

In fashion, accessories now rival or even outshine the garments. In this episode, master leather pattern maker Raphael Lombardo explains the business.

In the studio for this episode are Kathryn Hilderbrand and two of her advisers: a public policy expert who served in the Obama Administration, Mark Linton, and fashion industry veteran and Project Runway superstar, Tim Gunn.

GQ Style's Editor-In-Chief, Will Welch, is the man at the helm of a brand new approach to a broad appeal fashion magazine for men.

A status report on the effort to protect the heart of New York's fashion manufacturing business: Save The Garment Center in 2016.

Charles Beckwith and Seth Friedermann, always clothed in cool, chat about the insanity that is the current and continuing state of the fashion industry.

Fashion historian Patricia Mears is in the studio with us this week, talking about The Museum at FIT, and her historical perspective on the fashion business now vs. decades past.

Now open at 224 Mulberry Street in Soho, the Flying Solo retail concept brings designers closer to customers, and customers closer to satisfaction.