Cant Not

In conversation with Molly Rogers, the costume designer behind And Just Like That and the The Devil Wears Prada 2. For decades, Molly worked side-by-side with Patricia Field, starting at her famous downtown New York store before helping define a generation of style across the entire Sex and the City universe. We get into what brought her to the Pat Field store in 1984, who was shopping at the store back then and the energy in the city, how the store was the answering machine of the 80s, what it was like when she first started to work in costume with Pat, if there was an expectation of designer clothes on the first season of Sex and the City, where some of the iconic pieces came from, how bringing the gate kept fashion industry to audiences around the world contributed to the shows cult status, how she approached the legacy sequals she designed, When she chooses to have something made or use vintage, the first vintage piece she bought for Prada 2, how working with designers has changed since when she started, the importance of working your way up from the mailroom to the top -- and so much more!!

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In conversation with Jakub and Ali of the vintage store 3AEM. We go back to their childhood stories of what brought them to fashion, the journey that brought them together to build 3AEM, Jakub's experience as a designer and decision to slow it down, the work and inspiration that goes into their vintage drops, the importance of accessible price points, their approach to mixing labels and eras, why their is a hype around archive and how its driven up the price points, is the archive space becoming a subculture? Thoughts on the designers that will be trending in vintage, their favourite pop culture moments where someone wore vintage, how vintage sits amongst contemporary fashion, current designers they are looking at, what's next for 3AEM and so much more!

In conversation with Judy Berger of Judy's Vintage Fair, The Big Flea Market, Vintage Furniture Flea and the Botanical Market -- Judy gets into the early days of putting on markets in London and how that lead to vintage fair's touring the UK's university towns. The novelty of using Myspace to advertise her market. How vintage purists had an issue with her selling stuff from the 80s in the early 00s. The work and also the fun that goes into putting on a market. How competitive the market business became. The effects of Covid. Her appreciation for the new gen of Markets (Shoutout to Stella of Second Life!). Reviving the old Kensington Market and shining a light on the history of that market which started in the 60s in London. The stories of the old Kensington Market Vendors. What to expect at their upcoming market there for London Fashion Week and so much more <3

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In conversation with Edward Jones, of @edwardjonesatelier on how his early fascination with the understructures of victorian dress, the diaries of lady's maids and the hidden details and soft techniques of old haute couture sewing set him on his journey to becoming a couturier. Edward gets into the parts of couture sewing people may not realise and how hard it is to translate couture pieces in the digital age. We speak about what may be lost if this way of making isn’t up kept and the danger that puts couture fabric houses in. We get into his antique corset collection and his interest in preserving the corset history of the wartime and post war era. Other topics in our conversation include more on his collecting, 80s Emanuel Ungaro, his hat collection, the hats by the legendary milliner Madame Paulette, the punctuation mark of a Stephen Jones hat, whats next for the Edward Jones Atelier and so much more <3

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In conversation with Allison Dickerman, founder of NYC based vintage store Allison's Archive on leaving her PR job to start her own business, the intuition and feeling that goes into her curation, admiring designers who weren’t afraid to have fun, missing the times when designers didn't try to appeal to everyone, Dsquared FW 2003, the constant surprises in sourcing, Vintage going from niche to mainstream, how archives have become cultural currency, the skate moss heel and so much more <3