StyleZeitgeist Podcast

We discuss the incredible life of Malcolm McLaren, the (mis)manager of the Sex Pistols, the enabler and partner of Vivienne Westwood, and an all around agent of creative chaos, with Paul Gorman, the author of the new biography The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren. Find out about punk rock and punk style, McLaren and Westwood's series of legendary shops at 430 Kings Road, where the iconic Tits shirt came from, which famous fashion designers went to the first Sex Pistols concert in London, and much more. Bonus - find out where Supreme got its name from.

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We discuss sustainability and ethical production with Elizabeth Cline, a sustainability expert and an author of two books, Overdressed and The Conscious Closet. We talk about our respective approaches to what shopping sustainably means, and we bust some sustainability myths in our usual no-holds-barred manner.

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We break down the Spring / Summer 21 season with the journalist and fashion critic Philippe Pourhashemi.

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In this episode Eugene talks with Sam Lobban, the VP of designer mens and womens at Nordstrom, about his love of fashion and about his journey from a 15-year-old North London shop-floor kid who spent all his salary on Stone Island, to going on buying trips to Paris for Selfridges at the ripe age of 18 for Raf Simons and Undercover, to bringing obscure Japanese brands as the head of menswear at Mr. Porter, to infusing Nordstrom with his unique vision.

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Not everyone knows that StyleZeitgeist began as a forum dedicated to the menswear avant-garde, helping form it into a cultural phenomenon. In many ways the iconic menswear boutique Atelier did in retail space what we did in cyberspace, so it seemed fitting to go back to our roots early on in the life of this podcast by chatting with Karlo Steel, Atelier's co-founder.

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In this inaugural episode our host Eugene Rabkin, the editor of StyleZeitgeist, introduces the podcast and discusses how the climate of overzealous political correctness stifles creativity in fashion with Angelo Flaccavento, one of the most fearless fashion critics writing today.