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Publicist, model agent, playwright, erstwhile stylist, Fred Howard was the publicity manager for Linda Evangelista’s comeback tour last year. Fred has spent a life in the so-called fashion trenches. Among his skills is preparing models for the red carpet, (avoiding the fries that can bloat and turning up the music and the AC on the way to the venue)! Fred’s worked at Elite Models and DNA, scouted countless models, served as media coach to still more, He even chaperoned models’ apartments years ago, perfecting his knack for helping people be philosophical about failure to launch in the way they expected. He has managed PR and philanthropic initiatives for various celebrities and he continues to write - he and his cousin, acclaimed director, Raelle Myrick-Hodges created the play “He Has The Prettiest Handwriting” which sold out at the Public Theatre in New York in 2022. Fred is now working on a piece of first person creative non-fiction--sharing tales of growing up in a military family, coming of age as a Black gay man in conservative North Carolina of the 80s, and his youth in the fashion trenches from the late 90s and 00. He’s also serving as a consultant for a scripted series currently in development, set in the fashion industry. Fred is the kind of a person who has always been there but one didn’t always know what he was doing. He is a connector - and someone people can count on to craft - and even protect - their public images. He is an insider who has many stories - and he tells them in this episode of Carton d’invitation!
Find Fred on Instagram @bushwickfreddy
Original music @leonthesinger
Please subscribe here for more fashion conversations! Your support for my project means a lot.
A video trailer for this podcast is available on the Carton d'invitation Youtube channel.
To discover more about my documentary and this oral history project, find me on Instagram: @cartondinvitation
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Sibyl Buck is the American supermodel who brought punk to Paris runways in the 90s.
At the height of her success, she left for New York to become an artist and a musician.
Sibyl built The Doghouse, an artists’ commune in New York City and toured for years as a musician with lots of different people including Chris Traynor. She and Chris parent their daughter, Puma Rose.
Along the way, Sibyl has been an MTV host, an actress, in the Fifth Element for instance; she spent 10 years working as a therapeutic yoga instructor and now she’s a permaculture designer (who does some modeling on the side of course. Book her!)
Sibyl’s called a “Grunge Icon”.
Her scarlet hair and piercings inspired Jean Paul Gaultier to cast her in 1993. She stuck out her pierced tongue at the end of the runway and the result was her first picture in Vogue.
Soon Sibyl was learning how to breathe into corset fittings at Vivienne Westwood and Thierry Mugler.
And before she knew it, even the most traditional houses wanted to capture some of her frank freshness to burnish their brands. She even posed with Yves Saint Laurent for a famous portrait.
I had fun watching all of that unfold back then. Sibyl always made a fashion show more interesting and I liked checking in with her for chats here and there - she was never boring!
So it meant a lot to me to track Sibyl down in Topanga, California where she tends her garden, walks her dog, mothers her daughter, builds just about anything - and works on a wide variety of projects aimed at healing people - and the land.
Sibyl's info:
NextLA//MarilynNY//OuiParis
www.sibylbuck.com
Instagram: @sibbyfresh
Please subscribe for more fashion conversations! Your support for my project means a lot.
A video trailer for this podcast is available on the Carton d'invitation Youtube channel.
To discover more about my documentary and this oral history project, find me on Instagram: @cartondinvitation
Original music for this podcast is by Ashley Rivera, Myla Carlos and Chloe Hsu.
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The Carton d’invitation Podcast often but not always talks about 90s fashion - but this is a twist and the humour doesn't escape me! In this episode, we are talking about how some of the famous faces from the 90s (think Naomi, Marpessa and Carla Bruni) stay luminous today!
“The French Facialist” Sophie Carbonari is often referred to as one of the world's ultimate beauty secrets, whether you pick up Vogue, Town and Country or Goop.
Sophie's famous for gifting “glow” to her clients inbcluding , Rihanna, Caroline de Maigret, Nicole Kidman and Lou Doillon…To be clear, we are talking about something that looks like a facelift but isn't!
A pioneer of the “facialist wave”, Sophie's special techniques and I dare say her deep intuition and care for people have celebrities lining up at her studio in Palais Royale in Paris or once a month in London - or wherever she may be: for instance working her magic installed at Cannes during the festival.
In this episode, we learn about how she does it - you will be quite surprised!
Sophie talks about her rich childhood in the south of France, being raised by a French mother and an Italian father, some of the discrimination she faced starting out as a beauty therapist and her empathy for her clients who are always being judged in the public eye.
She calls out “beauty shaming” - and for those of us who might not be able to see her for a treatment or buy her “addictive” Le S Serum, she offers her simple “10p” tips for daily skincare!
Sophie says anti-ageing is a not a thing - you can’t anti-age! But after years of research, she’s developed a protocol that combines customized formulas, ayurvedic and kobido practices - and her own innovative massage technique that stimulates the fascia (it makes a cracking sound when it happens by the way). She says she just “reveals” people - without the tiredness that accumulates!
If you want to know more about Sophie after listening, here is her website:
https://sophiecarbonari.com/studio/
Please subscribe to this podcast wherever you are listening!
A video excerpt of this episode is available on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/_yyNDAm0skk
To learn more about my documentary project, go to @cartondinvitation on Instagram.
Original music for this podcast by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos
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Carton d’invitation celebrates the fashion journeys of Supermodels, designers, journalists, stylists, creative directors, illustrators etc. Stars of 90s Paris as well as emerging creatives in conversation about "life before the internet" and making fashion now.
I was a TV reporter in the Golden Age of fashion in Paris in the 80s and 90s, back when it was a new thing to bring video cameras into that elite world. Now I am a documentary maker and writer thinking about embodiment, glamour and sartorial disruption. These podcasts honour legacies. Touching and fun - a fashion history archive. -
Sophie Theallet has dressed Michelle Obama and Kim Kardashian. An award winning designer in her own right, she started out assisting Jean Paul Gaultier - and then Azzedine Alaia for 10 years. She saw everything! And in this podcast, she decides she’s willing to tell me about it all.
It took us three meetings but Sophie was eventually ready to explain what “assisting” really meant - the lines she developed, the prints she designed, the symbiotic relationship between herself and Alaia, who she calls the “Last Couturier.” (Along the way, she was also ready to gossip a bit - and to be honest about how hot under the collar things sometimes got)!
When I interview people who worked as “assistants”, they are always very respectful - careful to protect the mystique of the iconic designers they worked for - Of course, Sophie is extremely respectful of the legacy of Alaia - but she was also finally willing to lift the veil and help me get a real sense of the contributions that so many invisible people working around the great designers made to fashion.
Sophie also talks about how she broke away and moved to New York, built her award winning brand and dressed stars from Lauren Hill to Sharon Stone. We also learn how she ended up in Montreal, launching Room 502, a direct to consumer low waste brand of pitch-perfect pieces every woman wants in her wardrobe - couture quality construction at a small fraction of the price.
Cathy Horyn says her colour sense reminds her of Saint Laurent - Sophie’s many admirers from Obama to Rosy de Palma appreciate her approach to empowering women through clothes.
Sophie has won the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund award. In addition, to running Room 502, she has been a fashion instructor at the University of Montreal and she offers online tutoring for young designers, including hopefuls putting together portfolios for fashion programs around the world.
Find Sophie and Room 502 at https://sophietheallet.com/
Sophie is also on Instagram @sophietheallet
Please subscribe for more fashion conversations! Your support for my project means a lot.
A full video trailer for this podcast is available on the Carton d'invitation Youtube channel.
To discover more about my documentary and this oral history project, find me on Instagram: @cartondinvitation
Original music for this podcast is by Ashley Rivera, Myla Carlos and Chloe Hsu.
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Eve Salvail: Supermodel, Muse to Jean Paul Gaultier, successful DJ, an addiction counselor, frequent television personality in Quebec, author and importantly the energy behind the Eve Salvail Foundation which aims to serve victims of domestic violence.
Along with a lot of people, I will never forget the season Eve arrived on the scene in Paris. Everyone was buzzing: “Who is the extraordinary new Canadian model? Her head is shaved - she has a dragon tattooed...on her skull!”
Really quickly, designers couldn't get enough of Eve from Gaultier to Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel. She appeared to be taking on Paris on her own terms as she swaggered distinctively down those runways - but it was quite a bit more complicated than that, as she recounts in this latest episode of the Carton d'invitation Podcast.
Eve understands now at the age of 53 that the turmoil she was experiencing inside back then inadvertently offered a sense of representation to other young people (all around the world) who also might have been struggling with identity.
Please subscribe for more fashion conversations! Your support for my project means a lot.
Gentle warning: Eve discusses her recovery from addiction and her work now helping others as a counselor.
A full video version of this podcast is available on the Carton d'invitation Youtube channel.
To learn more about Eve and the Fondation Eve Salvail:
https://fondationevesalvail.org/en/
Or simply go to Instagram: @evesalvail
Find Eve's book "Sois Toi et T'es Belle". Available in bookstores or through online providers.
To discover more about my documentary and this oral history project, find me on Instagram: @cartondinvitation
Original music for this podcast is by Ashley Rivera, Myla Carlos and Chloe Hsu.
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British Patricia Jacobs was a newspaper reporter for The New York Post back in the 80s and 90s. Now known as the artist, PJ Cobbs, she has hilarious gee-whiz tales from the trenches of fashion journalism and much perspective on what it was like for persons of colour to operate in that world.
Listen for a crash course in what being a news reporter back then was like, from scrambling to the phone booth to call stories in, getting the scoop when Karl Lagerfeld started yelling at Denise Dubois of the Chambre Syndicale right in front of her, to wearing her best and only little black dress to her first Paris soiree which happened to be hosted by Roger Vivier at Maxims.
It was bittersweet to share our stories of the designer Patrick Kelly who died so quietly in those tragic days when AIDS was kept a secret.
When I was roaming around backstage during the Golden Age of Paris fashion, I would turn to Patricia for soundbites - she always had something interesting to say! Hence while working on my documentary, I knew I needed to track her down to hear her perspective on that whole scene with the benefit of hindsight. The sting of the microagressions hasn't waned; her tenderness towards defenders such as Hilary Alexander remains.
And I think you will find it interesting that Patricia or PJ Cobbs as she is now called left fashion journalism behind to become a successful artist in New York.
I hope you enjoy this episode of oral history from Golden age of Paris fashion and also about what a creative life can look like.
PJ Cobbs is an artist, workshop leader and keynote speaker. To learn more about PJ Cobbs (or to buy her artwork), go to her website: https://www.pjcobbsarts.com/or pjcobbsarts
Find her on Instagram @pjcobbsarts
To learn more about my documentary project go to @cartondinvitation on Instagram.
Be sure to check out the video trailer for this episode on Youtube.
Music for this podcast by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos.
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Dawn Wolf stands by the motto that she is only as good as her last booking, A straight-talking New Yorker transplanted to Paris, Dawn says there are secrets she is taking to the grave...but all the same, you will be delighted to hear many, many stories here! She opened Ford Models in Paris and then IMG. Dawn helped launch almost every supermodel from Christy to Naomi to Shalom and Amber to Guinevere van Seenus and Amy Wesson. The list will make you dizzy.
While I was researching my recently released film Carton d'invitation, Dawn was very much a person I needed to reconnect with as a consultant to the project. Her perspective was invaluable.
There's a video trailer for this podcast which will have you laughing out loud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPguwuuoa68
For more on my documentary project, go to Instagram @cartondinvitation
Original Music: Ashley Rivera, Myla Carlon and Chloe Hsu
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Featured in British Vogue, designing for drag influencers, Bailey J Mills and Bimini as well as pop stars CMAT and The Dinner Party, Oran O'Reilly is creating a bit of a sensation in Ireland. His bespoke knitwear sells out. His inventive corsets feature faces of anyone from Kate Bush to Princess Diana. He is just 21 years old - and does his knitting on the bus to college - where he is studying costume design with the illustrious Peter O'Brien at IADT.
(Peter O'Brien is an earlier Carton d'invitation Podcast guest - scroll to find that)!
I met Oran when I went to Dublin to screen my documentary. Of course, his teacher brought some of his students along!
But before I even got to Dublin, I had heard the buzz about Oran - he's been making appearances on Irish national radio and television - and basically charming audiences with his inventive clothes and disarming candour. Among other things, he is honest about how new this career is for him. By the way, since the start, Oran's mother, Orla has been his model for publicity shots - and that launched an unplanned modeling career! As Oran says, Mum taught me to knit and I got her a modeling contract!
You can listen to the podcast here - or watch the full episode on Youtube.
To learn more about Oran: @oranjaurelio on Instagram
And more about my documentary project @cartondinvitation
Music for this podcast: @leonthesinger
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Justin Teodoro is a fellow Canadian - based in New York - and an illustrator whose work is followed by tens of thousands of people. His art offers witty and very stylish commentary on pop culture and the world of fashion.
Enjoy listening to a person who has carved a unique niche for himself by trusting his instincts and leaning into his creativity!
In 2023, Justin was part of the Costume Department for Madonna’s Celebration Tour. His role was as the Costume Illustrator, working closely with the Costume Team sketching the looks of the show.
And at the start of 2024, Justin’s original illustrations were chosen to be printed on exclusive merchandise for The Celebration Tour.
Graduating from the Parsons School of Design in 2006, Justin built a successful career as a Womenswear Fashion Designer for such companies as Tuleh, Cynthia Steffe, and Kenneth Cole Productions.
But after 8 years in the fashion industry, Justin decided to merge his two passions, Fashion and Art to forge a new career as a fashion illustrator and artist. His illustrative work has been featured in many publications including WWD, WSJ, Vogue, Glamour and GQ.
As a creative consultant, he has worked with clients such as Nespresso, Hugo Boss and many more to create illustrated & graphic imagery and campaigns that are all infused with his own unique sensibility.
To find Justin: https://www.justinteodoro.com/ or @justinteodoro on Instagram.
Visit @cartondinvitation on Instagram to discover my ongoing project.
Original Music: Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos
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Described by Dazed magazine as an ‘industry fave’, Maximilian Raynor has dressed everyone from musicians Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora to supermodels Paloma Elsesser and Adut Akech. Just 25, he recently presented a collection in the MA Graduate show at Central Saint Martins in London. This is the show that people in the fashion world eagerly anticipate each year, hoping to spot the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano. The buzz since February would indicate that Maximilian is making his mark.
But Maximilian is no stranger to press. His BA collection premiered with ‘Perfect’ and featured in British Vogue as well as The Pirelli Calendar, styled by Amanda Harlech, eventually walking the runway in Rwanda for a show hosted by King Charles III.
But long before that, when Maximilian was just ten, his sketches came to the attention of Vivienne Westwood who invited him to spent a week in her studio - an indelible influence on his life.
How did Maximilian and I meet? I was recently at Central Saint Martins for an evening screening of my film Carton d’invitation. During a tour of the studios, my wonderful host Roger Tredre took me into the inner sanctum - where racks of the MA Graduate work was on display for fashion insiders scouting talent that week. I immediately spotted the pieces I found most interesting - and though everyone else was gone that evening, I realized the designer of that collection was still there. I decided I couldn’t waste time being shy and i introduced myself.
I’m glad I did - because now you too can meet Maximilian talking about this crucial turning point in his life as a designer.
For more on Maximilian: https://maximilianraynor.com/ and @maximilianraynor on Instagram.
Go directly to “Manor for Heaven” film: https://maximilianraynor.com/collections/
Learn about my documentary project: @cartond’invitation on Instagram
Original music for this podcast by @leonthesinger
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An established leader in the beauty space, James Boehmer is embarking on a new adventure in Kent, Connecticut after years as the Global Artistic Director for SHISEIDO Makeup. That role was preceded by groundbreaking work at NARS. In this podcast, James talks about beauty, leaning into difference and creating community. You will hear about "Peggy Mercury" - an exciting new multi-category store and art space he and his partner Greg Fricke are bringing to life - and lots of funny and touching stories about how a beauty obsessed teenager who felt like an outsider in St. Louis, Missouri managed to create a life that took him into the inner sanctums of the fashion world, both backstage and corporate boardrooms.
The entire podcast is available in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNVsi0LU2Zs
Thanks for subscribing here and on Youtube, if you feel inclined to support my project.
For more about James: check out @itspeggymercury and @jamesaaronboehmer on Instagram"At SHISEIDO, James drove product innovation and directed shade development. He oversaw all Global Artistry teams and communicated the brand’s unique point of view by creating content across multiple channels. In addition to devising many of the attention-grabbing looks for SHISEIDO Makeup’s ad campaigns, brand films, and social content, he worked closely with various departments within the company to conceptualize educational materials and tools that enhanced the consumer experience and increase customer engagement.Prior to his position at SHISEIDO Makeup, James served as Director of Global Artistry for NARS where he defined seasonal beauty trends, conducted seminars, educated other makeup pros, and assumed the role of key artist backstage for numerous designers including Mansur Gavriel, Creatures of the Wind, Suno, Naeem Khan, Vivienne Westwood, and Carolina Herrera.His work has appeared editorially in prestigious international publications such as Marie Claire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Purple, Jalouse, L’Officiel, and The New York Times Magazine. He has also contributed to beauty stories in WWD, British Vogue, The Financial Times, and The Guardian. James' client roster includes Hunter Schafer, Arca, Isabella Rossellini, Alek Wek, Sofia Coppola, Karen Elson, Daphne Guinness, Naomi Campbell, Zoe Saldana, Amy Sedaris, Olivia Palermo, and countless other top models and actresses. James has also designed makeup for various independent feature films that have been on view at Sundance, Slamdance, Toronto, and IFP."To learn about my documentary project: @cartondinvitation on Instagram.
Original music for this podcast by Ashley Rivera, Myla Carlos and Chloe Hsu.
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Openly trans in 1989, Connie Fleming made her Paris modeling debut and history on a Thierry (Manfred) Mugler runway.
Connie is a multi-hyphenate: illustrator, model, runway coach, also known as The Door Bitch in the New York club scene. She has become an advocate for trans-healthcare following her experience with breast cancer.
Growing up in Jamaica and then New York, Connie experienced violence in childhood - but was rebuilt as a teenager by developing her stage persona at Boy Bar. She became a fixture at the Paradise Garage where she was discovered by Steven Meisel. Connie is featured in a new documentary about that scene “Love is In the Legend”. And she has been seen in current day Mugler publicity campaigns and on recent Mugler and Rick Owens runways.
I talked to Connie while working on my documentary Carton d'invitation - I had wonderful memories of seeing her on the runways in Paris in the 80s and 90s - and it was important for me to ask what it all felt like for her.
To learn more about Connie follow her on Instagram @therealconniergirl
For more on my documentary project, visit @cartondinvitation on IG as well.
Original music for this podcast is by Ashley Rivera, Myla Carlos and Chloe Hsu.
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Jason Duzansky recently worked as the art director on the instantly iconic book: “Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel”. But probably without realizing it, you are always seeing images Jason helped create on billboards, in shop windows and magazines - wherever you might be in the world. Jason is a busy Creative Director based in Los Angeles and New York who works for many brands including Louis Vuitton and Chanel. Before going out on his own, Jason was "the right hand man" to Steven Meisel, serving as his in-house art director for 13 years. He grew up in Chicago and got his first break working at Visionaire Publishing in New York.
This podcast is a Master Class for young people wondering how to break into fashion…and of course, it is also for anyone who wants to know what it might have been like to work with Steven Meisel on all those Italian Vogue covers! Jason shares many memories working with and learning from the very private Meisel, who is considered the photographer of his generation.
Jason work is informed by a distinctive integration of typography and graphic design - he explains that his goal is to catch our eyes with work that is both chic and charming. Enjoy meeting the self-deferential and indeed very charming, Jason Duzansky in this Carton d’invitation podcast.
For more about Jason: https://www.jasonduzansky.com/
To learn about the Carton d'invitation documentary project, check out my Instagram account @cartondinvitation
You can find a video trailer for this podcast on Youtube or by checking my linktr.ee on Instagram.
To help fund continued work on this podcast series about the Golden Age of fashion in Paris, find a Kofi link in my bio as well.
Original music for this podcast was provided by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos.
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Fashion History 101 - For six decades, Tony has been immersed in the world of fashion - thinking, writing and sketching. From early 1960s YSL shows in the intimacy of the salon to the latest extravaganzas in Paris, Tony's been there, notebook in hand. We caught up as I was working on my documentary Carton d'invitation. Back in the 1990s, I often turned to him for TV interviews right after fashion shows. He was always knowledgeable - and effervescent with excitement - about the spectacles we witnessed in those days, from the first shows by Galliano at Dior to the time Martin Margiela made a "lace" dress from old sandals.
Tony started as a fashion forecaster with Sir Terence Conran, and went on to become an editor at Conde Nast, based in Australia. Prolific still, at the age of 77, Tony stays busy covering fashion for numerous magazines, commuting from his home in Palma to London and other fashion capitals.
For many years, Tony has also been a lecturer at a number of institutions including The London College of Fashion.
Tony is the author of several books such as "Top to Toe, a guide to men's grooming" and "New Icons of Fashion Illustration".For more about Tony, check Instagram @ t.g.therealtonyglenville
For more about the Carton d'invitation documentary, check out my Instagram account @cartondinvitation
You can find a video trailer for this podcast on Youtube or by checking my linktr.ee on Instagram.
To help fund continued work on this podcast series about the Golden Age of fashion in Paris, find a Kofi link in my bio as well.
Original music for this podcast was provided by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos.
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Partner of the late Manfred Thierry Mugler, Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz is a Polish performance artist based in Berlin. From a little kitchen in Schillerpromenade, he and I spoke together about his highly inventive art practice - and what it was like navigating the first year of grief after the passing of his partner.
To learn more visit his Instagram: @leondziemaszkiewicz
This podcast is part of an interactive media library which accompanies my documentary Carton d'invitation. It's a film about my work reporting for Fashion Television in Paris during "The Golden Age", the 80s and 90s. My documentary naturally revisits my encounters with Mugler so it was important - and moving - for me to be able to talk to Leon for this podcast.
A gentle warning to people dealing with loss that some of the content deals with the process of grieving.
If you would like to learn more about my documentary and the overall project, go to Instagram @cartondinvitation
Original music for this podcast was composed by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos. Find more music by Ashley at https://vithmakesmusic.carrd.co/
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Entertaining, outspoken and really funny, former fashion model and Big Brother Reality TV star, Marcellas Reynolds calls himself the “ultimate fangirl." He is the author of Supreme Models, The History of Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion and Supreme Actresses as well. He co-produced with supermodel, Iman, the hit six-part Supreme Models docuseries. The series brings together many stars from Pat Cleveland to Karen Alexander and Veronica Webb to Zendaya to tell the story of Black models past and present. We sat down to talk about Marcellas’ own extraordinary life in fashion and the thrill of creating the books and the documentary.
Known as a "walking, talking fashion wikipedia", Marcellas is the ultimate fashion insider. In this podcast, he offers us a Master Class in the compelling history of the Black Model.
Find a video trailer for this podcast : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSeFQbKhdDM
Find the docuseries at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObeHmWsyshM
Find Marcellas @marqueemarc on Instagram and @Supreme_books on Twitter.
Buy his books online or in your favorite bookstore!
Special consultant on this podcast: @domcreates
To learn more about my ongoing documentary project about Paris fashion in the 80s and 90s, go to @cartondinvitation on Instagram and Tiktok
Original music for this podcast was composed by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos. Find more music by Ashley at https://vithmakesmusic.carrd.co/
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Peter O’Brien, wildly talented, humble and really funny, has been a fashion insider for decades. He sat down to share his thoughts and impressions about where things are at now and what was happening back in the 1990s when we knew each other. I am working on a documentary and doing a Master’s about my own work making television about fashion in Paris at that particular moment in time. To be honest, I need a lot of help remembering, clarifying and reinterpreting. In this podcast, Peter enlightens me on many questions.
Raised on a council estate, avoiding sports and always drawing ballgowns in his schoolbooks, Peter O’Brien went from dressing windows in Dublin to attending Central St Martins in London, (telling a pre-Internet fib about having finished an Irish Leaving Certificate to gain admission). In a few short years, Peter was in Paris, working at Christian Dior under Marc Bohan, followed by Givenchy, then a brief stint as a senior designer at Chloé. In 1989 he was appointed Creative Director at Rochas, where he remained for 12 years, designing women’s wear and accessories, and overseeing menswear, perfumes and licenses.
Peter returned to Ireland in 2004 where he has since been working as a freelance designer for various lines.
He is an award-winning costume designer for theatre - and he spends much of his time now teaching a new generation of costume designers in Ireland.
For more about Peter:
Instagram: @peterobriendesign
Website: https://peterobriendesign.com/
Find a video trailer for this podcast here: https://youtu.be/BWKRfZZ_GqI
To learn more about my ongoing documentary project about Paris fashion in the 80s and 90s, go to @cartondinvitation on Instagram and Tiktok
Original music for this podcast was composed by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos. Find more music by Ashley at https://vithmakesmusic.carrd.co/
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Veronica Webb’s fancy-free strut down the Chanel runway was iconic in the 80s and 90s. In a fast rise to fame, the Detroit-native entered the emerging circle of Supermodels at the age of 19. Veronica was the first Black model to sign an exclusive cosmetic contract - becoming a spokesmodel for Revlon. She appeared on many magazine covers including Vogue and Elle, modeled for Victoria’s Secret and acted in films including Jungle Fever and Malcolm X. Supported by mentors such as Bethann Hardison, Azzedine Alaia, Karl Lagerfeld and Andre Leon Talley, Veronica became a student of the system - her astute observational wit propelling her multifaceted career.
In this podcast, she reminisces with me about those heady days when everyone came together all at once in the fashion world to attend shows that were not possible to see any other way - before the dawn of the internet. She talks about the excitement, the clothes, the characters and her work now mentoring young Black fashion talent.
Veronica is a mother and a blogger who espouses the motto: Own your age. Own your beauty. Own your power.
She recently appeared in the docu-series Supreme Models, a history of iconic Black women who revolutionized fashion, created by Marcellus Reynolds and Iman. You can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQkSAKgIaJI
For more about Veronica: Instagram: @veronicawebb Website: https://www.webbonthefly.com/
Find a short video version of this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfqmxr2uWA
To learn more about my ongoing documentary project about Paris fashion in the 80s and 90s, go to @cartondinvitation on Instagram and Tiktok
Original music for this podcast was composed by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos. Find more music by Ashley at https://vithmakesmusic.carrd.co/
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London’s Heather Stewart Whyte quickly shot to fame upon arriving in Paris, posing for all the great photographers of the time and walking the runways for every designer in town. A muse to Herve Leger, Yves St. Laurent and Dominique Isserman, Heather was also a Victoria’s Secret model. She tells a funny story about that in the podcast - and some cheeky tales about keeping Helmut Newton in his place.
Initially shy, Heather grew in confidence and was part of that group of supermodels who changed the rules. She pushed back when designers complained about her curves and she even rewrote the rules about being a mom and a model, taking her nursing babies on set - and just making that work too.
I knew Heather in the 90s, often interviewing her for Fashion Television. I was really delighted when we were able to catch up for this conversation so many years later. She recounted her memories of catwalks and photo shoots - but most especially she relished talking about the human moments: the encounters and the creativity she experienced in “The Golden Age” of fashion.
Find a video trailer for this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COTQrC6wogA
To learn more about my ongoing documentary project about Paris fashion in the 80s and 90s, go to @cartondinvitation on Instagram and Tiktok
Original music for this podcast was composed by Ashley Rivera, Chloe Hsu and Myla Carlos. Find more music by Ashley at https://vithmakesmusic.carrd.co/
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