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Fashion ForensicsFrancesco Murano on Designing for Beyoncé, Rafael Pavarotti and Independence | Fashion ForensicsVery few designers can say that Beyoncé was their first ever client, and for Italian designer Francesco Murano that became the reality right after showcasing his very first debut collection in Milan, freshly out of university.Starting out in ceramics, Murano graduated in 2019 from Istituto Europeo di Design, and his seductive body-sculpting designs immediately propelled him to become one of the most exciting young designers across fashion. Mere two weeks after showcasing his graduate collection, Beyoncé's stylist, Zerina Akers, got in touch with Murano and became his very first client, thrusting him into creating the roots of...
2025-12-0946 minFashion ForensicsSara Sozzani Maino on Franca Sozzani's Legacy, Nurturing Talent and Vogue Italia | Fashion ForensicsSara Sozzani Maino has had culture flowing through her veins her entire life. Rooted deep in her family, she has spent her life identifying the cross sectioning of fashion's influence on art and culture - a goal she set to pursue when she first founded Vogue Talents with Vogue Italia's Franca Sozzani back in 2009. Since then, Sozzani Maino has been integral in finding, nurturing and supporting emerging fashion designers, creatives and artists across the fashion scene through her role as the Creative Director of Fondazione Sozzani. With her support, the foundation has helped platform some of the m...
2025-12-0243 minFashion ForensicsGiuliano Calza on Creating GCDS, Dressing BLACKPINK, and Alexander McQueen | Fashion ForensicsFashion designer Giuliano Calza grew up with the notions of the Neapolitan culture - having the space to explore the beauty of his surroundings from an early age, creating an imagination that always wanted more. His teenage years led him to become particularly interested in the Mandarin language, eventually moving to Shanghai where his identity began to reach its full form. After spending four years in China, Calza returned to create his own namesake label - GCDS - which now, ten years later, has become one of the fastest growing independent brands in fashion. Coming into the F...
2025-11-1150 minFashion ForensicsEdward Buchanan on Debuting at Bottega Veneta, Virgil Abloh and Building Legacy | Fashion ForensicsEdward Buchanan calls himself 'a designer's designer' through and through. From the American Midwest all throughout 30 years of living in Milan, his career has been nothing short of a whirlwind. Born in Ohio, Buchanan quickly became enamoured with sketching, which led him to begin working in the industry as a window dresser, before dipping into New York's Club Kid scene in the 90s. A fateful meeting at Bottega Veneta saw him pack his bags in 1995, and move to Italy to become the brand's first ready-to-wear designer. Since then, he has worked across some of the biggest brands i...
2025-11-041h 22Fashion ForensicsDeba Hekmat on Becoming a Gucci Girl, David Sims, and Carving Your Opportunities | Fashion ForensicsFor model and actress Deba Hekmat, fighting to make your own opportunities has been essential. Scouted into modelling at age 16, she came into the industry with a level-headedness and desire to learn and explore more on her own terms, only to keep reaping the rewards of authenticity by recently starring in multiple Gucci campaigns, as well as making her acting debut in Sasha Nathwani's latest film Last Swim. Coming into the Fashion Forensics hot seat, Hekmat dives into her early years growing up between South London and Cardiff, and how she has taken her Kurdish identity into t...
2025-06-2447 minFashion ForensicsAnthony Turner on Guido Palau, Becoming a London Club Kid and Ethel Cain | Fashion ForensicsIn the world of session hairstyling, Anthony Turner is one of the 'enfants terribles' in his gothic ways of deconstructing glamour. Front lining some of the biggest fashion shows in the face of Prada and JW Anderson, he has created deeply deconstructed worlds of his own references and life path, which has not been easy. Starting hairdressing as a form of survival, Turner quickly became Guido Palau's first assistant, diving straight into the editorial world of fashion and art - reaching an accolade that few can boast about. Coming onto Fashion Forensics, he talks about the difficult b...
2025-06-1752 minFashion ForensicsConner Ives on Protect the Dolls, His Met Gala Looks & Designing for Rihanna | Fashion ForensicsConner Ives is someone who has had many home runs in his short career as a designer. After moving to London from Bedford, New York, he took on graduating from Central Saint Martins and putting all of his effort into building a fashion label that he has envisioned since he was seven years old. Since creating his eponymous label, he has achieved it all - dressing Adwoa Aboah for the Met Gala whilst being in his first year of university, attracting the attention of Rihanna and creating multiple custom looks for her [as well as working for h...
2025-06-101h 06Fashion ForensicsStanding Ground's Michael Stewart on Creating Couture, Ireland and the Celestial | Fashion ForensicsStanding Ground's Michael Stewart spent nearly 5 years trying to show people his craftsmanship talents before being given the stage to do so.Known for his savoir-faire, his couture adjacent techniques in his work have propelled him to become one of the most exciting and special talents in the industry, however, this did not happen in peace. After spending almost 5 years gathering interest, the Irish-born designer made his debut under Lulu Kennedy's London-based talent incubator Fashion East and since then Stewart has built a world, full of sculptural perfectionism in everything he shows. Coming onto Fashion F...
2025-06-0358 minFashion ForensicsStavros Karelis on Raf Simons's Friendship, Future of Retail and John Galliano | Fashion ForensicsWhen he first founded fashion retail space Machine-A in London, Stavros Karelis gave small and independent artists and designers a stage to express themselves upon.Quickly, the conceptual boutique became more than just retail, but a cultural hub frequented by artists and creatives like Scissor Sisters, Lady Gaga, Anna Trevelyan, Nicola Formichetti and more. Since its inception in 2013, Karelis has turned it into a global experimental space where young and exciting designers sit firmly alongside established brands, launching the careers of many of the industry's greats through giving them creative freedom in how their designs interact.
2025-05-2757 minFashion ForensicsSandra Choi on 30 Years at Jimmy Choo, Carrie Bradshaw and Princess Diana | Fashion ForensicsDesigner and Creative Director Sandra Choi has devoted her life into building a global shoe empire, starting out by learning the craft in her uncle Jimmy Choo's London workshop. Since then, 29 years later, she is still the core nucleus driving forward one of the biggest fashion brands in the world. Coming onto Fashion Forensics, Choi recalls the memories that defined her life - from accepting Princess Diana's request to create custom pairs of shoes to match her dress, through kitting out Carrie Bradshaw's shoe closet, moments before uttering the iconic "I Lost My Choo!" line, all through c...
2025-05-2055 minFashion ForensicsCora Corré on Her Grandmother Vivienne Westwood's Legacy, Hope and Sex Pistols | Fashion ForensicsBeing raised by multiple generations of strong, resilient women, model and activist Cora Corré has carried the legacy of her grandmother - the ultimate punk disruptor and designer Vivienne Westwood - forward by making fashion think about what matters most. Expanding the humanitarian work of The Vivienne Foundation into further developing projects and raising funds for humanitarian crisis response funds, Corré has taken Westwood's all-important message of utilising your own platform to speak up about what matters most, and brought it into every part of her life. Coming on Fashion Forensics, she shares about her chil...
2025-05-0646 minFashion ForensicsZomer on the Dazed Archive, LVMH Prize and Being an Independent Brand in Fashion | Fashion ForensicsWhat is it like to be an independent brand in fashion in 2025? For Paris-based Zomer, it is stability - inside and out. After starting their brand in 2023, Designer Danial Aitouganov and Dazed Magazine Fashion Director Imruh Asha have achieved many accolades that have propelled them into entering some of the most sought-after spaces in the industry such as becoming LVMH Prize finalists in this year's edition, as well as a prime spot on the official Paris Fashion Week schedule. Coming on Fashion Forensics, the design duo dive deeper into their references and history - Danial’s ti...
2025-04-2951 minFashion ForensicsLucien Pagès on Christian Lacroix, Coming Out in Fashion and the Colette Legacy | Fashion ForensicsFashion communications and PR specialist Lucien Pagès needs no introduction in the world of fashion and design. Starting out as an intern for Gianfranco Ferré during his tenure as the Creative Director at Christian Dior, Pagès went on to create a PR empire with the launch of his own agency in 2006 - Lucien Pagès Communication. Since then, he has looked after the vision and expression of the greatest fashion designers and brands of our time - Schiaparelli, Saint Laurent, Emilio Pucci, Jacquemus, JW Anderson, as well as discovering and supporting some of the most excit...
2025-04-221h 03Fashion ForensicsCorbin Shaw on Alasdair McLellan, Nadia Lee Cohen's Women and the Sheffield Way | Fashion ForensicsBorn in Sheffield, artist Corbin Shaw has always looked back onto the everyday British way of life for inspiration. Raised in the digital era of Tumblr, the Internet became an escapism for him, which later transpired as one of the main influences in him pursuing art and performance at Central Saint Martins. This path later led him to create contemporary work about the modern notions of masculinity, class and adolescence with some of the most established artists, photographers and editors like Alasdair McLellan, Katie Grand and John Joseph Holt. Coming onto Fashion Forensics, Shaw is abl...
2025-04-151h 01Fashion ForensicsCosima on Becoming Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino Muse and Her Musical Identity | Fashion ForensicsMusician, muse and artist Cosima has always walked a very personal road within fashion and music.Becoming Pierpaolo Piccioli's Maison Valentino muse and performing at his Haute Couture and ready-to-wear fashion shows further inspired her to express deeply hidden stories through making music, and devote her life to owning your own artist autonomy - something she has advocated for since her first record in 2016 and having launched her own record label.By becoming vulnerable through her music, she was able to create and nurture a community of like-minded souls, and inspire them with tracks like...
2025-04-0847 minFashion ForensicsJordanluca on Vivienne Westwood's Mentorship, Duggie Fields and the Idea of Love | Fashion ForensicsWhat means the most for Jordanluca? Love. Every expression of it. Design duo Jordan Bowen and Luca Marchetto’s meet-cute moment famously occurred in the line for the toilets at a London gay club. Now, years later, they have built a monumentally disruptive fashion brand, have become husbands and shifted the modern perception of work-life balance within the fashion industry. Their story features two very different upbringings, but sharing the same joie de vivre of rebellion. Luca is a designer coming from the Italian mountains, obsessed with British culture and Vivienne Westwood’s ethos o...
2025-04-011h 10Fashion ForensicsAlexander Fury on Therapising Demna's Balenciaga and His Early Love for Galliano | Fashion ForensicsAlexander Fury is a fashion editor and archivist who has hit every single touchpoint you can experience with the fashion industry. From the moment he witnessed Carla Bruni on the runway for John Galliano in 1995, he knew he wanted to devote his life to fashion. His early work with Nick Knight at SHOWstudio ushered in a fierce determination in taking apart and examining each particle that makes the industry - something he has led on to take across his work later on for Love Magazine, Financial Times, The New York Times and becoming the Fashion Features Director at AnOther...
2025-03-2558 minFashion ForensicsThis is Fashion ForensicsWelcome to Fashion Forensics - the visual podcast where we examine fashion as a non-transaction with some of the world’s best artists, stylists, designers, photographers and editors, stripping it down to its core identity. My name is Angel Nemov, a fashion journalist and editor, examining how past imagery has shaped our present identity, and what that means for our collective future. How do we recall the visual moments in our lives that have shaped who we are? As the fashion and creative cycle becomes more and more overwhelming with imagery 24/7, what are the moments that...
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