Wear Many Hats

Walid Shaharul is a Brooklyn based artist that is a self-taught painter from Queens. He recently had his first solo exhibition put on by the homies over at the art collective, Roosi entitled ‘Safe Space’ at Synesthesia. Walid’s figures have distorted faces which reminds you of Francis Bacon. We don’t eat bacon because we’re about that muslim lifestyle. Except for prosciutto and pepperoni. This is...

Jeffrey Melo is an artist that is represented by Black Wall Street Gallery. His painting, ‘Behind The Walls, Lies Our Foundation” which is 54 x 54 inches, oil on canvas, is up in the BWS exhibition on 26 Mercer Street. I’ve always wanted Jae to be part of the Dahsar collections so I’m glad he was able to take a break from his painting schedule to come hang with us. He models on the side, does Jiu...

Cam Sizemore is a Cinematographer that has worked on all your favorite films and tv shows. Tv shows such as Daredevil, Master of None, The OA, Crashing, The Godfather of Harlem, High Fidelity, The Flight Attendant, and Gossip Girl. HBO not The CW. Films such as John Wick. That’s all I could find. Even though as a first assistant camera operator or second, Cam is also a photographer who shoots on m...

We have Lia Kantrowitz and Kelsey Niziolek from the brand Sunday School, the hottest nuns around putting out soft goods such as hoodies, tees, and long-sleeves of their illustrations. Lia is an illustrator who has worked for Vice, The New York Times, Medium, Business Week and Bloomberg. Her recent design is for our good friend Missy and her band Mannequin Pussy for their new EP out on Epitaph call...

Bryndon Cook is a star and a romantic. Yes I’m taking it from his music moniker Starchild & The New Romantic. A multidisciplinary artist, actor & music director. Composing & recording music as Starchild & The New Romantic. Previously creative work includes collaborations with Solange, Kelsey Lu and Blood Orange. Guggenheim Museum, Sydney Opera House & Hollywood Bowl. He has a l...

Public Cinema Club. The masterminds behind the production company based in Philadelphia founded in 2015 Kendra, Pipus, and Scott J. Ross. It is currently run by Kendra and Scott. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, Billboard, XXL, Hypebeast, Vice, and Indiewire, and played at major film festivals including Sundance and Tribeca. Pipus and Kendra were also named "Best Comedians of 20...

Grace Hwang is a Korean American graphic designer, illustrator, and art director that brings light vibes to a heavy world.  We met during the Philly days through DJ SYLO and Matthew Law parties, degrees of separation from going to Temple University, and also running into each other in Brooklyn. Always happy running into Grace.  The Facebook APAHM campaigns 3D type was brought to life by 3D artist...

Dominick Alcantara and Tim Lopez one of many from Barangay (Pronounced BarranGUY), podcast network, DJ collective, and photo collective. Barangay is a celebration of creativity and culture stemming from our artist collective in NYC. Barangay assisted in the production with the Dahsar Commercial Type and Commercial Classics shoot for CLASSICS and for Peter Saville collaboration. Filipino, I’m not F...

Ché Nembhard is a “aspiring polymath of visual media” and the co-founder of CLIPS Co-op. CLIPS develops original content + provides platforms to showcase other creators such as Lichen NYC, Public Records, and Fragile Glass. Clips has put out short films for Fact and Nowness. Recently produced the Sacai collaboration for my previous boss Hank Willis Thomas for his collaboration with Sacai. When I...

Naoko de Oliveira is a florist in NYC. Naoko runs her own floral business called Kabuki NY. Naoko also models on the side unprofessionally but honestly she’s professional as professional gets. She modeled the Dahsar Commercial Classics lookbook for CLASSICS out now with a campaign featuring in Record Magazine debuting as we speak. Congrats to Kabuki for her first Valentine’s Day and Mothers Day be...

Jerome Peel is the designer and founder of the workwear company Peels Painting. Jerome plays drums in the band Gnarcissists. Jerome Chrome is a DJ as well. Jerome is related to Evel Knievel and is part of the Citi-Bike Bois where they do sick stunts from riding in Pop Eyes, 7 11, bunny hopping off of loading trucks, and ramps on these heavy ass bikes. Jerome is fucking hilarious. I met Jerome at t...

Daniel Delara is a musician.  Dan has a bunch of the same guitar pedals I use such as the infamous Dimension-C pedal that we love and I've also told Louise Chen to get. If we had his pedal board honestly we would rip on the bass and guitar all day long.  Previously in the band Team Spirit, the French Electro Indie rock band, Jamaica. Scored in the film "The Queen of Hollywood Blvd" and scored in "...

Marissa Le is an Art Director, Marketer, and DJ also known as Yolo Ono. Marissa works in branding and marketing as the Digital Director of atmos USA fka UBIQ. Marissa is also another good friend of mine from Philly who didn’t move to NYC. This isn’t an episode with Yoko Ono. Shout out to AAPI Heritage month that’s Asian American Pacific Islander for everyone who doesn’t know their acronyms except...

Daniella Sansotta is a videographer with clients such as Adidas, Sophia Roe, Arshia Moorjani, Kiehl's, Crate and Barrel, Aveda and currently working Loren Allred. Daniella is also the Creative Director at NST Pictures.  Daniella is a visual artist, based in NYC. Me and Daniella were Making Time in Philly now we make time shooting photos of her and her brother RJ for the Dahsar + Commercial Type CL...

Kylie Hoffman has been a producer throughout her career but is now an Archival Producer. She has produced videos for networks such as National Geographic, Discovery, Disney+ Kylie has modeled a few pieces of our new Dahsar + Commercial Type CLASSICS pieces officially available online now at dahsar.com and commercialtype.com while we were out in LA to photograph the homies. She was a Plant mom befo...

Geoff Snack is a senior strategist at Jam3, an illustration instructor at OCAD University, teaches experimental design at Miami Ad School Toronto, and consultant.  Geoff applies strategy, research, user insights, new ideas, and new technologies to his work for clients such as Facebook, Google, adidas, and more. Geoff is our first Wear Many Hats listener that plugged us in and wanted to be on the p...

We have Justin Mariano and Eunice Chun from the very first Wear Many Hats episode coming back on to do an exclusive “Where ya at” episode. This is very exciting because a lot has changed since 2018 and I mean a lot. Justin was a flower boy no Tyler although we saw Tyler, the creator at the Garden in 2019 and that was the last time he worked as a flower dealer at the Canal Street Market and also di...

Kamtin Mohager is a graphic designer and musician which he's mostly known for as The Chain Gang of 1974.  The Chain Gang of 1974 has been a project of Kamtin's since 1974 no 2010 and it's been a favorite listen of mine since 'Daydream Forever' of the track Death Metal Punk and his next releases of 'FELT' 'Honey Moon Drips' and his latest release, 'Besides' EP.  I've been following Kamtin's musical...

Justin Buschardt is an illustrator, musician, photographer, videographer and my favorite bartender of all time, well in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. We met when I used to work at the greatest coffeeshop / plant shop in Brooklyn called Homecoming. We used to shoot the shit, talk about bands, punk bands, Thursday, the band Thursday, on a Thursday, life, photos, his dog, and more importantly, love. Gross. J...

James Corrigan is a dear friend of mine and I don’t say that lightly, I met him with our dear friend Alicia Hogan many moons ago and he’s introduced me to many musicians such as Homeboy Sandman who I’ve also had on Wear Many Hats and is a dear friend as well. James is the Senior Director of Visual Merchandising that oversees brands such as Allen Edmonds and Naturalizer and has been in fashion for...

Matt Maust is a cold war kid, a product of £UV, visual artist, loves vintage and looks great in a bucket hat. Mister Mauster is a bowser with the vintage band tees, living the life of being in cold War kids and making art and clothing for the rest of your life is the life that people would absolutely dream of.  I’m so wet right now, Hang me up to Dry, Matt Maust. Please welcome Matt Maust of Cold...

If I were to tell my high school self right now that I would have Nick Thune on the podcast, he would be like, what the hell is a podcast? I never watched cartoons before going to school, only Comedy Central Presents stand up shows at 7am and Nick Thune was my all time fav. Having the guitar played in with his sets was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen mind you I was going thru a weird singer songw...

We’re here with Louise Chen who is a DJ who has been promoting parties since 2012. First playing Hip Hop and R&B she has grown up with sampling culture and been a crate-digger for a long time hence the many Discogs tabs open on her browser. Her endless quest looking for soul, funk, disco and jazz has shaped her to playing clubs such as Rex and Concrete. She hosts shows on NTS, The Lot Radio, R...

Morgan Jay has two first names. He’s comedian but a guitar player. He doesn’t do musicals, he doesn’t do improv, he does standup comedy but mostly sitting down. Morgan Jay finished as a semifinalist on NBC’s Bring the funny but has performed at numerous comedy festivals including the SF Sketchfest, Laughing Skull Comedy Fest and was a finalist at the 2019 Big Sky Comedy Fest and 2018 Boston Comedy...

Matt Trigaux is an LA based Creative Marketer who likes the messiness of making things. Basically he likes to get down and dirty with clients. I know Matt from Philadelphia who opened up an art gallery clothing boutique called TrickGo. It was for the likes of Johnny Cupcakes but had streetwear sensibilities like the old Reason and Pedestrian. He also assisted in founding a motorcycle shop in Phila...