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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...

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 hones...

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...

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 plac...

Hear what poet and spoken word artist Cathi Rae has to say about body positivity and growing old in style. She embraces slow fashion, consuming less yet still enjoying the thrill of the find in charity shops and her own cupboard!  A PhD student at the age of 60, Leicester's Cathi Rae teaches creative writing - and can be found doing manual labour cleaning houses two days a week. She has stron...

Claudia Mason: Supermodel, author, actress, stroke thriver and Life Coach.  Claudia walked fashion runways in The Golden Age and now has another kind of "super life" as a coach, helping others get unstuck and centred. Author of "Finding the Supermodel in You" and also spokesperson for The American Stroke Association (ASA), Claudia has many dimensions and lots of stories to tell. It was specia...

Meet Maltese-Australian Anto Christ, a Berlin-based creator who scultps in crochet, paints in neon and wears her art on the street. A proponent of adornism - and of "particpating in your life", Anto is a liberating person to listen to on fashion and its power to "bloom" a person! Her recent solo show Divine Mutations at Transparent Forum in Berlin was well received but as you will see Anto Christ...

My reunion with French couturier and inventor Olivier Lapidus. Olivier has dressed everyone from Celine Dion to Amal Clooney. Designing haute couture from a young age, Olivier came by his talent naturally as his father was Ted Lapidus, iconic designer in the swinging 60s and 70s who dressed John Lennon among many others and his mother Veronique Zuber was Miss France, a model and an actress. In the...

Leon The Singer is a Berlin-based singer/composer/dancer whose new album The Noise Beside Your Thoughts is as catchy as it is honest. This podcast episode will have you tapping your feet - maybe even dancing a little - as Leon and I explore the three-year process of creating an album which has caught the attention of Rolling Stone Magazine. Leon talks about his craft, his inspiration - and some of...

A contemporary artist and conceptual designer, Jo Cope plays with the semiotics of dress. From her recent work at The Garden Museum in London, to the Venice Design Biennale to her out-of-the box fashion activism in support of Shelter, the UK homeless charity, Jo pushes boundaries and questions fashion's evolving role within art and society. Jo adapts traditional shoe making techniques to create ha...

Julian Warner says his body is a canvas; his fashion style is eclectic, disruptive - and joyous. A delightful raconteur, Julian has tales of a lifetime of travel from Easter Island to Tibet. Julian directs us to good vintage shopping in international capitals – and explains how he came to own a thousand shirts. Join me in conversation about race, disruption, clothing as communication. Do come alon...

Yossi Fisher: from the front row at fashion shows in Milan to rolling up his sleeves to help build fashion brands. Yossi is a guru, advising fashion brands about how to play the long game, stay authentic and show empathy towards the customer base. Yossi has insights on how to become a fashion influencer, what faux pas to avoid and what practices to embrace. He has unothodox opinions about fashion...

Former model, master tailor, fashion designer, Alexis Mersmann in conversation about their beautiful new collection created using denim found on the streets of Berlin (and other places too)!  Alexis shares thoughts on many issues: gender fluidity, sustainability, sizing in fashion, day to day life in Berlin - and growing up on a dairy farm in the German countryside. Besides fashion collection...

Ever wonder about time travel, ever go off in search of the first light of the universe (hint you can actually find it), well then you will enjoy listening to University of Toronto, Science Communicator Spencer Ki regale you with tales of the heavens! Spencer also talks to us about how his curiousity took him through studies in AI, statistics, physics, mathematics and Shakespeare during an epic un...