American Fashion Podcast

Menswear designer Siki Im talks culture and commerce, expounds on his drive to design, and comments on the difficulty of manufacturing his full line domestically.

Wall Street Journal "Ask Teri" columnist and author of The End of Fashion and Hijacking The Runway, Teri Agins, is in the studio.

Wall Street Journal “Ask Teri” columnist and author of The End of Fashion and Hijacking The Runway, Teri Agins, is in the studio.

Recording space for this episode was provided by XRC Labs at Parsons School of Design.

references:

• Byron Lars
• Olivier Rousteing (New Yorker article)

 

Jacqueline M. Jenkins is the Dean of Graduate Studies for LIM College, where she leads the development and execution of the College’s graduate-level programs, including the MBA and the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) programs in Fashion Merchandising & Retail Management, Fashion Marketing, Visual Merchandising, and Global Fashion Supply Chain Management.

references:

• LIM College
• Fashion: Now & Then (fashion history conference)
• Shoes of Prey (custom shoes)
• How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million (Bloomberg)
• Alber Elbaz Challenges the Fashion System at FGI’s Night of Stars (WWD / paywall)

Jacqueline M. Jenkins is the Dean of Graduate Studies for LIM College, where she leads the development and execution of the College’s graduate-level programs, including the MBA and the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) programs in Fashion Merchandis...

A view from the beginning. Young designers Beckett Fogg and Lauren Nahigian talk about their ongoing process of getting started in the fashion industry.

Recording space for this episode was provided by designers Iuri Shubladze and Luba GnaSevych.

references:

• Kit Woo
• Area
• Eckhaus Latta
• OS Fashion’s Fashiontech Jobs Board
• threeASFOUR
• Julia Han
• H&M Supplier Factories in Bangladesh Still Don’t Meet Safety Requirements (The Fashion Law)
• Forever 21, BCBG Require Employees to be On-Call, Don’t Pay Them for It (The Fashion Law)
• The Story Of Ed Hardy, And How I Got My Ed Hardy Tattoo (Gothamist)
• Alibaba Lobbies to Stay off US Blacklist List for Fakes (BoF)
• Concerning The Spiritual In Art (book)

A view from the beginning. Young designers Beckett Fogg and Lauren Nahigian talk about their ongoing process of getting started in the fashion industry. - Recording space for this episode was provided by designers Iuri Shubladze and Luba GnaSevych.

Fashion writer Lauren Sherman talks with the hosts for nearly two full hours, a new record for this show. The conversation covers everything from fashion criticism and journalism to changes and evolution at New York Fashion Week to the European bias in...

Fashion writer Lauren Sherman talks with the hosts for nearly two full hours, a new record for this show. The conversation covers everything from fashion criticism and journalism to changes and evolution at New York Fashion Week to the European bias in American fashion media to designers who didn’t make it out of the 90s to the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund and the end of diffusion lines as we’ve known them.

Also, a brief interview with Reem Acra at her bridal show (at the 1:27:33 mark).

Recording space for this episode was provided by designers Iuri Shubladze and Luba GnaSevych.

references:

• Quintessentially (Lauren’s first gig)
• Forbes (Lauren’s second gig)
• The Power of a Positive No: Save The Deal Save The Relationship and Still Say No (Amazon)
• Tommy Ton
• The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever (Amazon)
• Of A Kind
• Nanette Lepore
• Rachel Comey
• Alexis Mabille
• Matches Fashion
• Pyer Moss (designer Kerby Jean Raymond)

Blair Ethington talks one on one with Charles Beckwith about the Covet Fashion app and the gamification of style and fashion.

references:

• Brands Woo Millennials With a Wink, an Emoji or Whatever It Takes
• China’s Nightmarish Citizen Scores Are a Warning For Americans