Wear Many Hats

Gabrielle Lamontagne is a Creative Director and Illustrator based in New York. I met Gabi IRL at Hester Street Fair when Commercial Type and Dahsar hosted our first ever Zine Fair and she had a table with us. Gabi was selling bodega prints along with a few vintage postcards and a certain movie star pulled up. They’ve been best friends ever since. Gabi was formerly at Chobani and her watercolors we...

JIALING also known as BIG J is an artist and musician originally from Baltimore, with roots in Taiwan. JIALING has performed at Papi Juice, can rip on the chello, and there’s a photo out there of her wearing many hats. Please welcome JIALING / BIG J to Wear Many Hats. ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/jialing.bigj ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Tyreek Mitchell is a man that I crossed paths with at colbo but later learned that he was over at snow peak. Tyreek enjoys the great outdoors, leather jackets, and has an ‘on the corner’ vintage Miles Davis t-shirt that is one of the most beautiful relics I’ve ever laid eyes on. Tyreek has modeled for the homies and has impeccable taste. There’s so much shit going on in the world, we don’t care to...

Paolo Jay is an internationally published Filipino American Freelance Photographer. PJ is one of my good friends from Philadelphia, PA where I met him during the Abakus Takeout days to Ps & Qs but also crossed paths with him at Temple University and at every pop up Ubiq had to offer. PJ takes wonderful portraits, food and beverage, editorial and events photos. PJ is selected as one of Diversif...

j ember is a musician. j ember put out his new record ‘Ultraviolet’ right at the start of the New Year which is bold and we’re here for it. Get your year started out right. j ember has worked with friends Take A Day Trip shoutout David and Denzel. j ember has been featured in Wonderland Magazine, featured on the Spotify playlist Indie All Stars, and Majestic. This is about to be majestic. Please w...

Mie Kim is a multidisciplinary artist primarily creating ceramic sculpture and limited design objects. I crossed paths with Mie through the internet via friend and guest of the show Cameron Morse, where they both share a similar minimalist lifestyle in Montreal. A few of my favorite archive pieces in her collection include the Flux II, Moon Jar Series, the Basso series Please welcome Mie Kim to We...

Isabel Münter runs a Chess Club in New York City called Pawn Chess Club with Simone Robert, where they’ve had chess clubs at your favorite haunts like Casetta, Casino, and Metrograph. Isabel also runs Homes + Studios with Rachael Yaeger, which is an archive of artists’ homes and studios and architectural gems around the world, most of which you can visit. Past studio visits include Chen Chen &...

Johann Rashid aka Promiseland is a multidisciplinary artist who works in the forms of music, performance art, and video. Johann has done work for Seekings, The Voidz, Nick Murphy, and more musicians. Promiseland released his new album ‘Sad But Happy’ featuring tracks with Melati Malay, Samantha Urbani, and Julian Casablancas. Promiseland has supported The Strokes on their Asia Tour in 2023 but I d...

Jubilee is a DJ and Producer. Jubilee runs her music label and party, Magic City and each Magic City night shares her love for Miami Bass, electro and breaks. The Top 25 DJs Who Defined The Year 2023 Jubilee has some of the best Tweets I have ever read and her hot takes are always served hot, never cold. Please welcome Jubilee to Wear Many Hats. ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/jubileedj ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Thu Tran is an illustrator, animator, writer, and producer. I remember Tran from the early days of YouTube when she produced and created Food Party that eventually went to IFC and Late Night Munchies on MTV. Check out Spaghetti Inc for all your Thu Tran original artworks, Giphy for her cat gifs, The Misguided Guide to the Origin of Everything on YouTube, and the sci-fi comedy short film, The Rainb...

Jinah Rhee cut her teeth in hospitality. Jinah works alongside NA:EUN Hospitality as well as the brand development and collaborations.  The Korean Cookbook is out now on Phaidon Press. Please welcome Jinah Rhee to Wear Many Hats. ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/jinbunz ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Stephanie Lau is a cook.  I found Stephanie through the Wear Many Hats food universe of friends who are bomb cooks.  I swear the working from home meals have been elevating.  Dropping mini recipes to make some of the most delicious snacks and munchies. Miso yaki onigiri, peaches and cream toast, corn mochi, sardine banh mi on that Nick & Sons sourdough baguette come on now. Stephanie got the m...

Isabel Slone is a writer. Isabel is a fashion and lifestyle journalist based in Toronto, Ontario. She has been writing about fashion professionally since 2012 and has been published in the New York Times , ELLE , the Wall Street Journal , Harper’s Bazaar , The Strategist and more.  I found Isabel through her Tweets when she retweeted friend and guest of the show Jamie Rothenberg of @foodjars. Chec...

Phuong Nguyen is a creative director and multidisciplinary designer based in Brooklyn, NY. You may have seen Phuong’s work for Recess and Domino Magazine. She has also worked with various brands across media, wellness, fashion, beauty, food, technology and more. Her works have been featured on Adweek, NPR, and The Zoe Report. Phuong is also an artist that has been supported and featured by the New...

Melissa Cho is a bilingual multimedia creative. A journalist, creative producer, and editor… she says she can’t help but have her hand in several honey pots but that’s just another way of saying this podcast name. Melissa has been featured in Vogue, Jubilee, and Shoutout LA but is mostly known for her podcast, hAAPI hour with Melissa Cho, an excuse to hang out with cool AAPI friends. This episode...

Darro Chea is a musician. I met Darro at the Echo Park Tennis Courts when I got back into tennis and didn’t know that he was a pop punk musician. I mean how could I have known? Ahh yes. The hair. Darro put out his new album ‘Accidents’ which reminds me of all the pop punk greats as well as ‘j.o.m.o.’ which means the joy of missing out. Didn’t think I’d be listening to pop punk so much while cruisi...

Marquis Williams is the founder of Highly Recommended, a premiere and buzzing wine club based in New York City.  Highly Recommended has done collaborations with Gangsters Buy Flowers for their coasters and with friend and guest of the Wear Many Hats show very own, Christine Espinal, for their wine rack that was sold at Lichen NYC and the Brooklyn Museum. As well us pop ups with Out To Lunch for Ch...

Jer Umai is a content creator, food photographer, restaurant reviewer, and cook. You can learn a lot from his breakfast, lunch, and dinners. The udon, the bento boxes, the omakases, the onigiri, the ramen, the dumplings, the homemade bagels, diy handrolls, the udon, and don’t let me get started with all the sandwiches. The waffles, the pancakes, adding fruit to almost everything. Jer makes being a...

Uffie is known for hits during the bloghaus movement, now peak indiesleaze but we’re going very strong.  You know her from ‘ADD SUV’ featuring Pharrell Williams and ‘Pop The Glock’ from ‘Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans’ off of Ed Banger but have you heard of ‘cool’ off her new album ‘Sunshine Factory’ on Chaz Bear’s Company Records? Whole record hits including the interlude with Peaches. We love Peache...

Hampus Lideborg is an Art Director and 3D Designer. Hampus runs Objects by Lideborg where he explores textures, shapes and objects with photography, scans and digital tools. Hampus takes beautiful stills with his Leica Camera everytime I see him. I love running into Hampus when he take long bike rides with his VanMoof all around New York City. We always have conversations of travel, fashion, the l...

Kristina Ang is a content creator and loves fashion. Kristina runs the Life of An Ex-Fashion Student Podcast where she talks about being an ex-fashion student and an aspiring designer where she walks you through the realities of her journey as a fashion student and what it’s like to work in the industry. Kristina is the Social Media Coordinator for Harpers Bazaar over at Hearst Magazines. Previous...

Charlotte Rose Benjamin is a musician.  Charlotte put out a record called ‘Dreamtina’ and is gearing up for a new one. I’ve seen Charlotte out and about playing through every Brooklyn venue there is with all of our friends and guests of the Wear Many Hats show. My favorite tweet of hers @charlobenji goes something like this: 'everything is a band everyone is a band oh my god ’im so tired.' Please...

Sami Lambert is a social media queen who is in communications, events, marketing, project management you name it and has been on all the apps. I’m not talking dating you fools I’m talking social media platforms including Vine (RIP) You can mostly find her at Adweek where she is the social media director that was cooking for Adweek creators. The Internet is not real. Please welcome Sami Lambert to...

Jamison Isaak is a musician. You may know him by his stage name, Teen Daze, a Canadian electronic act from Vancouver.  I met Jamison at Oliver Shaw’s Friend Editions storefront for the release of Chris Black’s collaborative zine with Friend Editions just before him and friend and guest of the show, Jason Stewart of How Long Gone had their live show at Webster Hall. Jamison played Black Flamingo an...

Jayson Buford is a writer and a lifelong New Yorker, a diehard Knicks and Yankees fan, and someone who has been searching for Rocawear jackets to bring back into the mainstream. His work can be found in Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Byline, GQ, Vulture, Pitchfork and more. Jayson’s Substack is filled with basketball, and hiphop where I hope one day he gets his own show to chat about this. I met at Jum...