Wear Many Hats

Denzel Robinson is a vintage t-shirt collector and sometimes fashion model. If he’s not a fashion model then NYC be sleeping. Someone sign this man. I first met Denzel at Metropolis Vintage and honestly I’ve never seen him outside of the store. He’s always bringing up heat and talking about whats in his Archive. Yes Archive. Double R Chive. Posting gems that you’ve never seen before. If I ever get...

Bruce Easley is a DJ. I met Bruce in Philly and now we’re both in the big apple. We partied everywhere in Philly, he DJ’ed every club possible. Now here in BK, last time I saw him was at House of Yes but you can catch him at The Lot Radio clocking in with the Funk You crew. check out his radio station, Lighter than AIR FM This is Club Lonely, DJ BRUCE, there is no Planet B. Music: How does it work...

Yurié Collins is an actor and comedian. I met Yurié at a dinner party that friend and guest of the show Taisuke put together in Brooklyn. Friend Jun Mabuchi was in attendance and I am not Japanese. Food and drinks were pouring and Yurie was out here telling her jokes, stories at the torched Balthazar and how she has 400,000 followers on TikTok. We love this for her. She makes the best videos abo...

Steffi Cao is a writer and Internet Culture Reporter. Her writing has appeared in Teen Vogue, Bustle, MTV News, and The Washington Post and currently over at Buzzfeed where she writes about viral moments, the influencer economy, and social media. Steffi has a newsletter called “It’s Steffi” where the Wear Many Hats crew has now subscribed over at Substack. it’s steffi is a weeklyish combination of...

Mark Sabino is a designer who’s known for his jewelry, clothes and the full brim yankees hat on Rihanna.   At this time he’s known as Mark’s Not Nice but maybe at the end, all of it will change. Please welcome Mark Sabino, to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/marksnotnice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/rashadrastam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rashadrastam.com⁠⁠⁠...

Jesse Gi is a second generation Korean-American writer and director from Los Angeles. Jesse has worked across studios such as Lucasfilm, Warner Bros, and CBS on projects like THE MANDALORIAN, BLACK ADAM, and DOCTOR SLEEP. 1 out of 3 ain’t bad. I found Jesse from his short film, ‘Neh’ that was available on HBO Max which is a comedy-drama about a Korean-American with no fluent Korean language skills...

Harry Bernstein also known as Harry Bee is the founder of Bright Colors. I met up with Harry at the Tommy Hilfiger offices to meet in real life, see him in action, directing a shoot, meet a few members of the his team. Then see what mutuals we have. Of course its friend and guest of the show, Justin Mariano.  Harry before that founded The 88, Annex 88. Harry has Wild Thoughts, surprisingly today o...

Anisa Tavangar is a writer, curator, and PhD student at Princeton University. I met Anisa when I worked at For Freedoms, a non-partisan non profit artist collective that centers art and creativity as a catalyst for transformative connection and collective liberation. Anisa has written for The Arts Magazine, Pioneer Works, and the Guggenheim. Anisa likes to surf, loves to travel, has red hair. Anis...

Ana Thomas is a curator, digital project manager, and creative producer based in Philly.  Ana co-founded the gallery, Blah Blah Gallery, a new gallery in Philadelphia. Ana is a good friend of mine that I can count on anytime I’m in a funk which is also a nice word for trouble whenever I’m in a jam. Realistically optimistic with a whole lotta moxie. Please welcome Ana Thomas, to Wear Many Hats. ins...

Nick Massarelli is a graphic designer.  Had to stop just saying designer because people either be thinking it’s fashion design or the rapper with two i’s. But it’s Massarelli with two S’s and two L’s. I first met Nick outside of the zine function at the pier in Philly chopping it up. Dahsar was doing our first collaboration with Commercial Type and the rest was history.  Nick went to Drexel for hi...

James Cridland is a Radio Futurologist. James is also a writer, consultant and public speaker on radio’s future. James has previously worked at BBC and Virgin Radio. I first heard of James when I went to Podcast Movement where he opened up the podcast pit basically in Los Angeles. Introducing Will Ferrell to the stage, I wondered who he was.  Little did I know he is also the founder of Podnews, wh...

Naeem is a musician. I met Naeem over a decade ago in Philly where we used to party like nobody’s business but it was everybody’s business. If you weren’t partying like we were partying 10 years ago. Dude you’re late. Formerly known as Spank Rock, Naeem has performed with so many of the greats but one that I found out was with Bjork and that friend and guest of the show Christian Schwartz has been...

Dave Haller and Andrew Fatato founded a creative agency called Major.  Major’s clients include Showtime, Samsung, and Asics. Dave and Andrew also created Drugs for Plants and Handbook for Hacks. This is perfect for this podcast because we love plants that are drugs and hacking the system. I met Dave when I was wheatpasting for my creative agency, and the host of this podcast, Dahsar, for one of my...

Tacai Dryden is a writer, model, and meditation instructor. I first ran into Tacai at Colbo chillin probably doing shoots here and there but it goes to show that we run in the same circles. Tacai’s second published book, Mingy Zingy Manual Vol. II: Be Great At Being You is out now.  Please welcome Tacai Dryden to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/tacai_dryden ⁠⁠instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh⁠⁠ ⁠⁠instag...

Brendan Lowry is the founder and Creative Director of Rory, a creative agency which helps brands from all over the planet do cool things on the internet and, sometimes, in the real world. Some of his projects include Sound of Philadelphia, Draw to Action, and Open3. Brendan runs the IG Peopledelphia, where it’s things that people do in Philadelphia. If you didn’t put two together. I remember Brend...

Ethel Moore is a designer. You may see her animations for Redoux, but we’re trying to get some Wear Many Hats animations over here. Ethel is currently over at Instrument but she’s freelanced for the Tribeca Film Festival, Madewell, and Casper before. Before that she was over at Partners & Partners Ethel is best friends with friend and guest of the Wear Many Hats show Cozy Spice aka Sydney Gore...

Molly Cranna is a photographer and director based in the sunny skies of Los Angeles but also splits her time between there and the dark skies of NYC. Molly has photographed most of your favorites and counting. Represented by Day Reps, select clients include New York Times, Surface, Wall Street Journal, Bust, Allure, and Bloomberg Businessweek. I’ve got a hunch that Molly plays tennis by her profil...

Allyson Camitta is a musician and music producer based in NYC. You may know her with fellow producer Ezra Tenebaum making up the duo, Shallowhalo. Shallowhalo released a record called ‘No Fun’ in 2022 that features Harrison Patrick Smith of Turtlenecked, where Allyson also played synth in as well who Harrison is known as The Dare on “Party Hop." That is what I did during Shallowhalo’s single relea...

Arielle Nissenblatt is an audio producer, podcast marketing consultant. In 2017 Arielle started the EarBuds Podcast Collective, a podcast recommendation newsletter. She’s managed podcast studios, worked as an in-app curator, gone to school for audio production, produced several podcasts, run successful marketing and PR campaigns for several dozen shows, organized podcast communities on Twitter, Di...

Jean-Luc is a musician, content creator, and a fashion icon on the rise. Currently known at this time as the NYC clout guy and creative for GQ, Jean-Luc has been posting hilarious content out on what it’s sort of like a night out with him. Good friend and collaborator of the podcast, Nikko Gary told me one night out that I should get Jean on the Wear Many Hats podcast because he’s trying to be fam...

Richard Tomić is a Brit that is all but not limited to music producer, content creator, comedian, and Japanese speaker. His Japanese is so good, it’s inspiring me to learn Korean. I heard of Richard where Kim sent me a Instagram DM of Richard’s reel of “Tinder Date in Japan” with Richard’s smiling face of him in a wig playing the beautiful girl that he is and I watched it. Hilarious. I was hooked...

Ben Grey is a musician. Ben Grey is the vocalist and guitar player for Dear Boy. I first heard of Dear Boy through the grapevine of LA bands but then I had to tap in Austyn Hayman the other guitar player for Dear Boy for the WMH podcast. Austyn was different, but I didn’t think that the rabbit hole of the Dear Boy universe would get bigger but it did. I met Ben Grey in Los Angeles at a show that A...

Jennifer Heintz & Mike Wagz are designers and the founders of Self Aware Studio. I was aware of Self Aware long before friends and guests of the show, Ian Shiver, Elizabeth Goodspeed, and Ryan Evans mentioned to have them on. Self Aware’s websites and branding for Middle Child and This Corner made me look to go, who did this, I need to know! Philly’s changing it up, love it. Work includes port...

Lukas Frank is a musician. Lukas performs under Storefront Church. A band I discovered during the days I was a barista and used to blast his music opening and closing of the storefront coffeeshop called Homecoming. Lukas has been a touring drummer for Portugal. the man, Phoebe Bridgers, Kitten, Alexandra Savior. Working with producing GZA’s solo record, currently a Covers EP that features Phoebe B...

Amelie Ning Kang is a restauranteur, chef and the owner of MáLà Project . The East Village Chinese dry pot restaurant that’s constantly packed also has a couple locations uptown in New York City but you know I don’t go above 14th street. Just playing I do, I say I don’t but I do. Recognized for her culinary talent, dedication to the hospitality industry, and for leading the wave of new Chinese res...