Wear Many Hats

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...

Elliot Aronow helps men unlock their minor genius, create their lifestyles of their dreams and executive producer based in New York City. Over the course of his career he has worked with artists and brands including The Fader, Mark Ronson, LCD Soundsystem, GQ and The Strokes as a magazine editor, fashion designer, music executive, A&R man, underground tv host, and creative director. Elliot run...

Ira Chernova is a Photographer, Model, and Artist. Ira is an artist who I knew their work previously through their modeling career, but learned about photography and drawing shortly after. Ira channels various visions and ideas into primitive style drawings, where Ira began painting on nesting dolls, looking for ways to bring their upbringing and art style together in one art-form. I met Ira with...

Troy Kreiner is a Creative Director and an independent curator based in Los Angeles. I first met Troy in Philly when we were boys not at University of the Arts. Ok UArts but at parties. I still think about those parties to this day.  We all grew up of course, moved on, went our separate ways but the internet brought us together. Shamelessly through Shameless Enterprise, a collaborative project bet...

Nate Nichols is the Founder and Creative Director of the creative agency / production haus, Palette Group.  Clients include Foot Locker, PUMA, Netflix, Xbox, Billboard and your favorite drink to go out at night, an Aperol Spritz of course. Palette Group is building out their production haus across Germany, France, and America where they produce and write with creatives, community movers and societ...

Jordan Butcher is an Art Director and Photographer that goes by Strange Practice. I first knew about Jordan’s work at the beach when I was drinking out of my friend’s hot to go mug from Minnows NYC. I thought this logo was sick and have to go to this bar but who did this logo? Lo and behold it was Jordan’s and made me go into a deep dive of previous work. Jordan has been Grammy nominated for his w...

Paulie Gee is the founder of Paulie Gee’s, a pizza shop that originated in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Paulie is the sweetest dude I’ve ever met when it comes to pizza. One of the last times I ate at the restaurant I remember Paulie coming up to our table and asking us how the Pizzas were. One of my favorite NYC experiences.  Since then Paulie Gee’s has expanded into different cities. We got Columbus, B...

Isaac Hindin-Miller aka Issac Likes is a fashion journalist turned DJ, and the founder of I LIKE YOU! You’ve probably been to one of his parties or seen his stickers on the locks on local businesses closing up shop in Manhattan but now you probably have seen him on IG reels or TikTok for all of your favorites doing his ‘Best of’ series. For ‘Best of’ he’s had my favorite New Yorkers on such as Tom...

Claire Corsten is Sourdough Bagels, an IG catalog of amazing foods and recipes she has created and documented but not only bagels. There’s a mix of cookies, pies, breads, persimmons, biscotti’s, raviolis, scones, cakes, cinnamon rolls, soups, wontons, donuts, pancakes, pies, croissants, burgers, it’s never ending. The food section of Wear Many Hats is continuing to grow. Claire budgets for good bu...

Clayton Chambers is the owner of sprezza, a newsletter exploring independent menswear, style trends, product reviews, and the business of retail. It’s a mix of curation, education, and discovery. sprezza talks about independent brands, create seasonal style guides, cover new drops, and deep dives on subcultures and style movements. Clayton is a brand strategist that built his career on content, br...

Adam Keita is the co-founder of Daughter, a cafe and wine bar based in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been to Daughter in Crown Heights when meeting up with friends to get a coffee. If I have to bike my way from Prospect Heights through Crown Heights to get back to my old spot in Bedstuy, crossing paths with the Daughter Sincerely, Tommy cafe to end up needing more caffeine with a matcha. I’m doing the most b...