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Today's episode is about one my favourite items that we all use which is Fragrance and no one seems to know Fragrance better than Robin James. Robin has his own successful YouTube channel about men's grooming, Fragrance and hair products. Robin's knowledge and the skills that he has learnt about the world of Fragrance is on scale of the finest product to be used. The Fragrance as we al...

It's great getting Questions about the podcast but there are times we're Questions are about my menSwear and some of these questions are really good ones that I had to bring them onto Ep9 The Saturday Mini Pod. Join me on this episode where it seems like I've become the guest and the community of menSwear by a Woman Podcast are the host. It's great getting questions, and I love sending the answers...

Today's episode is with someone who has been making waves in menswear. Ian has a well-known store in the heart of Brighton called Peggs & Son based on showing and selling the best independent brands around at the moment. Ian recalls the journey, how he began and how his world changed once he started menswear. Ian may say he hasn't that much knowledge of menswear but I would say otherwi...

Peter Williams is no stranger towards menswear as an Economist who has turned into having a successful menswear brand, Aubin and Wills known as Aubin, but before that, he tested his ability how the trade was by developing a brand called Jack Wills that majority of us will very much remember. As an economist, I have to say Peter has done amazingly well within this trade, i.e.menswear understanding...

In today's episode , I still can't believe that I was able to do an episode with Wayne Hemingway. Majority of us will know so much about the most inspirational design brand, Red or Dead, how we began to recognise Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway and how we was so into this brand it was the most talked about brand in all Fashion universities. Join me on a conversation with Wayne Hemingway about fashio...

It's very rare coming across a creative director in menswear who is a woman. Becky French wasn't just a menswear designer, but she went to a level that even today, it seems like the most impossible role as a woman is to be a creative director in a menswear world. How do you become a creative director within a menswear brand as it seems like there is very little amout of females in this role! Becky...

Moteen has been around Menswear all his life, but how has it worked and changed his life. Some of us have grown up with seeing our dads, brother, and other family members who wore menwear that really has made us truly join menswear. Join me in a conversation about how one man and his menswear have made him look, learn, and discover the essence of menswear. You can find Moteen here https://tinyurl....

They say to create you have to understand style and the beauty of design. When you create from the past, you already understand the style, and when you live in the present, you've created it for not only the present but for the future too. Florence Black 1954 founder Finn Lewis joins me on this episode in a conversation about how he became a stylist who understands the meaning of design. Finn talk...

It's finding that perfect suit for that wedding . Today's episode it's all about the suit from the birth of the Tuxedo in 1920s to the Morning jacket suit of the 1930s which have been holding the traditional men's wedding suit as a guest to actual groom. How it's all is changing to the most modern days of relaxed casual tailoring suits from dark colours to the bright colours has the traditional su...

Being yourself is always important, but as a menswear designer with all the experience you come across and live through, it's hard to be yourself. Kestin on the other hand took each obstacles and just went with it without changing himself and that's what today's episode is all about. True to your art, craft, creativity and most of all staying within the belief of when you first started is what I w...

Shoes are the most important items to finish an outfit, and sometimes we seem to forget about it, but it's the most important part of the look. Today's episode talks to one the most oldest trade and very important one that's been around for very long time and even now is still making its come back. Carrdecker bespoke shoe makers founders James and Deborah talk about the history and the future of t...

Richard Anderson began his journey at Row (Savile Row) from the age of 17. He began as an apprentice and never looked back. As one the most well-known tailors of the Row, join Richard and I in a conversation about how he maintained to become one of the most established craftsman and stylish tailors at Row and internationally. As Richard says, he fell into tailoring from wanting to become a footbal...

You don't need to be any age to start something you have been passionate about. Welcome to the world of Herbie Mensah, who is a designer in upscaling vintage clothing. Taking the scenes and living through some of the most fashionable decades starting from the 60s as Herbie says till now, his inspiration comes from the way he lived through the 80s club scenes. At the moment, his store in Portobello...

Style is not fashion, and fashion can never outlive style. Ontario Armstrong has a very unique style. As an art director for No Chaser magazine, he understands the world of artisans in menswear. When I asked him about how style is captured, he knew what style really meant how, within style, there's silhouette, texture, colour, and it all makes up to it and how it all works within yourself. Join On...

Well, without the scissors or shears, we in this trade would be totally lost! Without the proper shears or scissors, there is no way things could be done. From day one, I was told about scissors and how important they are to this trade either in menswear or womenswear its a tool that none of us can enter without it. The tools that make us all become master's in our own ways and the scissors or she...

Making clothing, designing, and producing is all on a similar level, but when you find artisans who repair clothing are on a different level altogether. Today's episode explores all about how repairing is done by Raw Meat Repair based in NYC where I have been told by some of you to interview Raffael Flores-Contreras for his amazing skilled work who transform and saving that piece of clothing from...

W.David Marx is a very well-known cultural historian writer who has written an amazing book about how Japan adapted the American style book called Ametora. Today's episode is all about and many other things cultural views in menswear. David's insights and how it all came together in seeing how Japan took the style and worn it better than anyone else is a truly remarkable part of history in menswea...

It's never easy taking the first step to develop a brand it has been told somehow you're on this path of challenges. Raff Godfrey, Founder of Works And Days, began developing his menswear brand with clean innovative designs. Join Raff and myself on how it really is in making a brand in what and how much it challenges ones ability in knowing what it takes to develop a brand in menswear. You can fin...

Today's episode is with Joseph Tate, who is one the most well known illustrator in The Sartorialist. A conversation about how and why Joseph began and what it was that attracted him to this world of fine, elegance, sophisticated part of menswear. He started up his own IT business, but at the back of his mind, he was illustrating not thinking he could make it successful but as they say where there...

The beginning of Hackett is one the most inspirational and fascinating stories of how this brand began. Jeremy Hackett, one of the most well-known figures in British Menswear, joins me on a conversation about how it all started. The iconic brand that has had so much depth into Menswear not just British Menswear but all over the globe Hackett has become one the most iconic and proud British Menswea...

Well, it's been amazing to be available to do this podcast and the journey! Join Charles and myself to talk about the podcast. It is truly for myself has been the highlight of my menswear career in meeting the most amazing people in the trade. Their stories are the ones who make and made menswear. Join this humours light-hearted conversation with one of my closest friend's Charles about the journe...

This has to be one the most emotional and great stories of a brand that I have recorded on menSwear by A Woman Podcast. I've never come across such a story where I myself froze throughout! Sushant began his journey in starting a brand in menswear with his brother, who was in the air force in India. What happened next will never prepare anyone for it, Sushant was not prepared what was coming his wa...

Well, this is probably one the most amazing inspirational chats I've had about watches. Justin Hast is and has to be the most iconic watch guru or master of watches. Justin knowledge and most of all his passion, who I was totally insipred by, had the same vibe as how I have for menswear, so how could I resist not getting him onto the podcast! His passion for what he loves doing is on a level that...

This episode is an interesting concept how Connor and his brother began a journey in developing not just a brand but something more than just another brand. United We Are is more than just another sportswear brand. Their both understand the problem that lies within the sportswear industry and how they want to start a major revolution in showing how it should be and can be. Join Connor and myself o...

Mark Powell, what can be said about Mark part from a legend in his business, which is tailoring. As one of the well-known tailors who has made suits for the most prestigious people in the world. His understanding, knowledge, and passion for his art are on a different level. Join Mark and myself in a conversation with Mark in how it all began and how things are in the current times. You can find Ma...