Wear Many Hats

Blaire Monroe is a good friend of mine, homie of the brand, homie for life. She was previously at Fast Company, Viacom, The Fader working in social media, a contributing writer for Complex, Afropunk, and Mass Appeal. Previously head of digital marketing for Keep Cool Records. Blaire is currently baking and making playlists with Dare 2 Bake Dare 2 dive in? As Told by Ginger no As Told by Blaire. Wh...

Evan Scott is the shop manager at the Noguchi museum in Long Island City, Queens, NY I met him while browsing the shop and saw the infamous Noguchi Table with the new Futura 2000 and Takashi Murakami collaborated print entitled ‘intermezzo’ We hit it off right away where I commented on his impeccable style looking sharp in Comme des Garcon blazer. Evan also edits a monthly newsletter of announceme...

Lauren Downing is the Curatorial Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania also known as the ICA Philly. She is also the co-owner of Ulises that was previously in Fishtown, Philly. Everyone’s got the Ulises Totes that have been spotted since Printed Matters Art Book Fair over at Moma PS1. She’s been in the art world forever. Please welcome Lauren Downing to Wear...

Talia Moore is someone who I met thru the grapevine of Brooklyn friends shout out to professional soccer player Demitrius Omphroy, Talia’s a damn good soccer player as well. She’s worked on the Michael Vick “30 for 30” documentary on ESPN. Talia is a producer at The Counter and is also a part of Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative. Please welcome Talia Moore to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/taamooor...

Lichen is a Brooklyn based interior design incubator. Ed Be & Jared Blake partnered in 2017 combining years of experience collecting, selling and trading designer furniture throughout NYC. Together they aim to create a community of lich-minded individuals enthused by music, creativity, and design. Big Lichen is at 98 Moore Street and Lil Lichen is at 131 Manhattan Ave both in Brooklyn. I first...

Eric Mayes has a personal mission curating and contributing through an intersection of art, science, and education.  I met Eric at Lichen, a furniture shop based in Brooklyn and we connected right there on the spot through our mutual friends and love for furniture. Eric runs Fragile Glass, a Brooklyn based candle company that is all about smell goods, handmade right in NYC. He recently put out his...

Renald Louissaint is a Brooklyn based designer and illustrator who balances the different approaches required for both practices to inform all of his work. He describes his work as lush and detailed, carefully researched and composed with typography. You may have seen his playlist covers for Lichen NYC, our good friend David You’s recent cover for ‘Beautiful, Like Pyramids.” Renald is also an illu...

Kate Wallich runs The YC, Kate Wallich Studio, and Dance Church. She’s based in seattle where it drizzles but when it rains it pours wait what? She’s not your tiny dancer, she moves like Jagger, she’s drippin in Dance Church merch, DAHSAR produced the collection. Your church's favorite church. Your dancers favorite dancer. Please welcome Kate Wallich of Dance Church to Wear Many Hats. instagram.co...

Thị Minh Huyền Nguyễn is a Creative athlete specifically runner and an activist. I met her at the Canal Street Market in New York City while I was at the shop and she ran her podcast and newsletter, Gold to Green. She has interviewed Artist and Designer Victor Roman and many more. When she bounced out of New York to move back to Berlin I was bummed but months passed and I ran into her while I...

Matt Pecina aka STUDIO GUAPO is an artist, set designer, production designer, prop stylist, based in NYC. He’s worked on trade shows for clients in consulting, Matt is releasing Studio Guapo merch called ROUGH DRAFT. He has collaborated with Richard and Grace been featured with Pink Essay and Roomy. Give it up for #THESHAPESWEMAKETHESHAPESWETAKE Studio handsome, Studio Guapo, Matt Pecina. Please w...

Archie is one of the founders of PLAYLAB, INC., one of the many amazing people behind Plus Pool, put together the ‘Figures of Speech’ book by Virgil Abloh, installations such as Grown Up Flowers, and Fantasy Landscapes. PLAYLAB, INC. designed with Virgil Abloh for 𝓛𝓸𝓾𝓲𝓼 𝓥𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓸𝓷 Men’s FW21 Runway Show, “Ebonics / Snake Oil / The Black Box / Mirror, Mirror” aka show 6. His team consists of good frie...

Thad DeBrock is a guitarist that you’ve probably heard his riffs in. Such as for acts Chromeo, St. Vincent, David Byrne, Graham Nash and wait are my notes right, Nelly? He’s also done broadway shows such as American Psycho and The Cher Show. Me and Thad met in Williamsburg and we used to chat about the music industry, jokes, and dating. He would come in with Graham Nash and I thought it was dad. H...

Dino Sanchez is a designer working in objects, furniture, and spaces. He designs and builds out of his studio in Pennsylvania. But really Dino does design beautiful pieces of furniture. The summit collection he recently put out he says expresses a direct visual language and a shared vocabulary of components. Which is the most beautiful sentence I’ve ever read in regards to someone making furniture...

Slowkey could sound like an animal. It could sound like a sloth going at a slow pace or it could be an animal that surprisingly can go really fast and surprise you with it’s unknown traits and characteristics that make you not know what to expect. My next guest is a friend from, you guessed it, Philadelphia where we used to party all the time and also get things done. My only fond memory is her go...

Lizzy Jo is for the community and she's all about giving back. She uses her design skills for good and a tool to make sure your art is not black and white. She is “multidisciplinary” which she says is a (typical millennial terminology WHICH IT IS!) designer who ties together color and culture in all her personal projects. Lizzy has worked for Art 21, Loud Community, DBN, Hot Mic Media, Business as...

Robert Perry the heart of Tattooed Moms, my favorite bar in Philadelphia where I basically grew up in. Handsome man that basically looks like he’s been in all of your favorite bands. He’s been running Tattooed Mom’s for 23 years! Located at 530 South Street. Basically everyone’s favorite street in Philadelphia, Robert is the kind soul that you would always love running into. The endless conversati...

Homeboy Sandman and I have a relationship like no other. Organic as ever. How I heard about him for the first time was when I met my friend James, spinning me his record “First of a Living Breed” in his apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. James told me what he knew about Sandman and from there on I was hooked. The love language of music in the room having all these special people listening to Homeb...

Justin Esposito aka FREEJBOOSIE aka the man of many talents basically a modern day renaissance man in the streetwear world that we currently live in. I was roommates with his brother Chris back in Philly, and when he came thru, I laced him with Dahsar, and we were homies ever since. Music is his specialty, his background, his everything but what he’s also known for is his contribution to the stree...

Sean Ben-Zvi is a Barista but not any Barista she is known for her swans, she goes by Seans Swans (@seansswans). She has coined herself as a creative coffee director, cafe consultant, and a freelance barista, so she’s basically under the whole coffee umbrella. I met Sean at her place of work in Boerum Hill as she is the head barista at this amazing venue and restaurant called Public Records. Publi...

Gabby Basyuk is a copywriter and slings vintage. She has an eye for great finds, a photographer, she has released a couple pieces of published work such as Act of Tenderness and Gaze Vol 1. Gabby is also an event planner, one of her first markets she put on was the Monstera Art & Zine fair up in North Philly featuring 8 Ball Zines, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Space 1026, and High Tide Collective. G...

Marv Mack is a Hip-Hop musician but he's also a video producer and director. He has worked for several companies that you may have heard of such as The Fader, Buzzfeed, Thrillist, and  Business Insider. He has a Podcast called Good Ass Job which is a pretty good ass podcast where he speaks with people that have a good ass job and discusses what they do to elevate their careers. Marv blesses us wit...

Nick Schon or KENTO, works for Caldera Magazine and works on electronic music. Garvin Kelly or S-BAND, works for Indie Photo Lab, dog walker and works on electronic music. Both of them gave us two special edition sets. Fast forward or listen to all of KENTO's intro set. Please welcome Nick Schon of KENTO and Garvin Kelly of S-BAND to Wear Many Hats.  instagram.com/0kento1 instagram.com/garvindustr...

Voice over Artist and Pizza Creator over at Paulie Gee's, Dylan Schwartz blesses us with a special Wear Many Hats voice over and his love for za. Please welcome Dylan Schwartz to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/dms_audio instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar.com

Furniture appreciation with David Eardley and Anna Ling of Pink Essay. We talk about being their furniture show, Open Space, featuring up and coming furniture designers held at Lichen NYC. Fruit Cup NYC. What it's like being a curator, compare chair tattoos and Julio Torres comedy special on HBO My Favorite Shapes. Please welcome Anna Ling and David Eardley of Pink Essay to Wear Many Hats. instagr...

Minji Kwon is a graphic designer, dog walker, babysitter, and a snack connoisseur.  Amanda Hagenbuch is a photographer, baker, barista, and a musician for her band, Weekend Athlete. The two went to University of the Arts and I know them by going to UArts parties. We talk Philly Naked Bike Ride, Pretzel Ride, and dropping off pastries at Amanda's house parties at 3AM. This episode is not sponsored...