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Megan Summerville And Benson Roberts III
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Little Red Village
Benson Roberts, Fashion Designer
Jonathan Joseph and Rachel Elspeth Gross interview Benson Roberts to discuss fashion academia, learning to sew, and how to communicate with employees and politicians.Benson Roberts is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who has been working in the apparel industry for almost 40 years. His work is celebrated, awarded, and has been seen on the covers of magazines, on fancy red carpets, and on musicians who are household names. He founded a fabric company, does beautiful custom design work, and teaches apparel design.Benson also co-hosts the podcast Advanced Fashion Disruption with Megan Summerville...
2022-11-08
37 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Megan and benson reconnect with each other after loss and growth. They share the biggest lessons they learned the past 4 weeks, and continue to disrupt and thrive.
2022-09-06
1h 15
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis Thursday catch up call
Megan and benson talk about current circumstances (TW: mature relationship and sex is discussed). Benson posits, how much stuff do you know that you don't always get to access, and what are your methods of information retrieval and reorientation.You'll want to pay extra attention to some great advice from benson about fur sewing!
2022-08-12
47 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Benson talks about his gratitude list, and Megan discusses how she became a business death doula, and the downfalls of SBA loans. She then waxes the demise of the patron of the arts roles in society today.
2022-08-05
1h 15
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD PIFF Lauren Kranz
Benson and Megan talk to the current WMU student Lauren Kranz. This talented designer is already working on a tween line and we cant wait to see it!
2022-08-04
31 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Season 2 Episode 3
The disruptors finish the master class for market and benson challenges the duo to a drawing that shows a gender neutral design in eachrespective 'designer's voice'. They ponder if Marques would join them on a show.
2022-08-03
41 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Megan and benson shoot the shit. Megan reads some cards and they discover that (shout out) rachelelspeth.com is their third leg. Much healing laughing was had.
2022-08-02
24 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Megan and benson discuss legacy, obligation, commitment, and what that actually means to them. Megan ponders Ethel's relative obscurity, and that the best parts of her are still in use and making good today. Shout out rachelelspeth.com, send us the link for any info you have on space sewing!
2022-07-29
30 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD PIFF with DITTO forms
Carol Huls of https://dittoform.com/ join the disruptors to talk about how DITTO is disrupting the dress form business, and how hands-on the form construction is. Her business is growing amid resource scarcity, and an ongoing pandemic. She continues to deploy faster better data capturing technology for a final dress form product that more accurately captures the body.
2022-07-28
31 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Season 2 Episode 2
Moment one Megan hits record, benson digs into markets and knowing your market. Megan dishes on her market experience, and benson gives a master lesson in market sell through. This is part one of market info from these two industry professionals.
2022-07-27
39 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Megan and benson discuss taking repair and remake clients. Megan needs some ponte, and benson gives her some valuable info on what to look for. New scissor snip sounds. And, the inevitable talk of aging and aging parents.
2022-07-26
31 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Benson and Megan talk about starting over and over and over, The pitfalls of giving into the melancholy and the tunnel that always appears bright. Join us for this designers' ride of ups and downs in the dust bowl of covid.Shout Out Rachelelsepth.com for some great fashion history parallel off Mme Gres.
2022-07-23
40 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Co-host Megan Summerville calls Gabrial Tabalan , and gets the scoop on this Denver industry professional's rise to sold out status after each collection drop. Why she ditched the runway, and got comfortable with identifying their brand's client and working with them directly. Gabrial shares with us a tool she can't live with out, and how she self edited her looks as she refined construction.Photo art: Joey Gallahan, Model: Mark Rec Wardrobe: Megan Summerville
2022-07-21
17 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Season2 Ep1 Trade For, and when to do it
Megan and benson talk about when they trade, who they love to trade with, and reveal some of their past ego and relief to reconnect.Shout Out: https://www.obsidianandblush.com/https://teodorapogonatphotography.com/http://www.joseluissalon.com/teresa-romeroGerry Hannanhttps://www.raphaelumscheid.com/indexFrancescawoowoo sh*t
2022-07-20
37 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Megan and benson continue the critique talk we begin dissecting. WWSMD ,What Would Stephen Moser Do. The continual disappointment of gaslight patriarchy in our industry. We build on the know better do better process. #pinksweeney #denveryoudeservebetter
2022-07-20
16 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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The Disruptors wrap the year talking about our favorite episodes from season 1, our first guests, Legal weed silliness. Shout out rachelelspeth.com and angelforfashion.comNew Season 2 episode art shot by Joey Gallahan, Model: Mark Rec, Wardrobe Megan Summerville.
2022-07-15
29 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Season 1 Finale Ep 13 Critique
The Disruptors continue to talk about Critique and then, true to form they give each other an honest opinion about a series of looks and a singular look. Megan gushes about the Pattern Magic Book series.
2022-07-15
1h 07
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis FASHION EMERGENCY
Megan and benson talk about a critique taken wrong. They cackle and dish about a designer that they both tried to help, and THE unfortunate reaction and fallout. They prelude to a BONUS LUCKY 13 episode finishing up season 1 on Critique! #shocking
2022-07-15
18 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Season 1 Ep 12
Megan says she would have never taken herself as a bridal client. They begin to talk stupid silly projects, #projectpimps, flesh light silicone, business collapse, vocal political social media can loose you accounts, setting client boundaries too, contracts, self serving podcasting, the fashion elephant in the room, assessment or judgement, #coutureranch , clarification on the Thom Browne show, they invite Susan O'neil nack to see if they can crash the recording system again. Shout out http://www.rachelelspeth.com/. https://www.patreon.com/advancedfashiondisruption to support this work.TW: mature talk about sex as it relates...
2022-07-12
58 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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The Disruptors talk about beauty in the breakdown, how Megan decompressed, open letter to young designer posting, and then we just cant stop. Please find the balance of our conversation as episode 12.TW: Mental health talk, and long COVID symptoms, and housing instability.
2022-07-12
14 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Season 1 Ep11
We dredge up the slew of seasonal runway shows poaching our inboxes. Is Megan starting a new line, the cards know. Will benson be moving? Find out out! Drop us a line! Buy us a coffee! : https://www.patreon.com/advancedfashiondisruption
2022-07-06
1h 02
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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We dish clients that don't understand the tiers of pricing and why first samples, boutique small runs cost more per garment than larger quantity orders. And, why being shady about ones intentions no matter how good those intentions are for production numbers is why many new clients get the boot. Once again, not down with OPP (other peoples projects).
2022-07-05
58 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 1.10
Our special guest from Barcelona , Jen Sidary, You can find her furiously working for AngelforFashion.com, and winning awards for her work from Delivering Good : https://wwd.com/business-news/markets/delivering-good-fundraising-ukraine-ceo-1235200421/ shout out : http://www.rachelelspeth.com/
2022-07-02
27 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis PFFF Holy Sh*t we made it
Shout out http://www.rachelelspeth.com/This episode brought to you by THC in legal states. This Friday call we talk about the perils of editing software in the hands of a pattern maker. Benson sparks a rant about Quickpull and we invite them on to explain how independent lines could benefit and how they might be protected. Give us your HARD data. Please give to our https://www.patreon.com/advancedfashiondisruption today.
2022-07-01
17 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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So our recording audio interface keeps dumping benson's audio. We are trying to retrieve over 9 hours of audio banked. Please bear with us as we work out if Podcastle will be our audio people any more.
2022-06-28
01 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis PFFF #roevwade reaction.
Phone a Fashion Friend /Fckup Friday, Megan and benson talk about the ripple effect that today's monumental decision has on women, and historically how conservatism has shifted fashion. You can also use this episode as a hydration or drinking game, the key word starts with F and has four letters. #sexstrike
2022-06-24
15 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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We begin talking about how custom made garments played a role in our childhood and how it formed our perceptions of our respective careers.
2022-06-21
32 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 1.9
Benson and Megan talk about the use of one own name in a labels' development and the repercussions of selling your work under your name, and what that value is
2022-06-21
33 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Phone a Fashion Friend Friday! We talk about the AIDS quilt and being wrong, and how to parse that wrongness and move through it while inspecting the guilt and shame of things. Then we discuss the trending promotion aspect of Depp and Heard trial, and the fascinating alignment some people have to promoting their brand though others pain. We then are led to our next discussion of lack of empathy in Fast Fashion.
2022-06-17
39 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 1.8
We discuss long standing retailers in the mid high category and why the investment fashion there and through other independent designers is important. And Megan forgets that its a discussion day and not a call day. Lets laugh together.
2022-06-16
30 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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We Chit chat gay pride, and a brush with Gilbert Baker in the fabric isle.
2022-06-15
26 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Season 1 Ep7 BONUS news
We Make the HUGE annouancement about the VoicesofGlobalFashion.org , a teaser aboiut the fashion challenge that we will be hosting with rachelelspeth.com, and the long term disaster relief to fashion communites worldwide. If you would like to donate to our in progress of 501c3 status please visit the website and submit a contact form. If you are a designer that would like to secure a limmited spot, please know that all participants will pay for textile shipment when general sign up opens. Stay tuned!
2022-06-11
42 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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This week we talk about #DD, or the similarly derogatory Dream Designers that can swoop in and charm unseasoned talent. You'll hear Megan scream like a velocorapter, and we hope that we can somehow work 'Phone a Fashion F*ckup' acronym in to a #pfaff endorsement.
2022-06-10
28 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 1.6
We start talking New designers, Now that our devices are so smart, they begin to listen to when we want to see. Into my fashion feed comes JOÃO PIMENTA.I love sharing new inspiration and opening up discussions about inspiration and when it goes too far, and how to work with artisan groups.
2022-06-07
39 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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We pat ourselves on the back for ranking 112th this week on Apple! Go our team!
2022-06-07
22 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 1.5
We dive deeper into the concept of good and evil fashion. Does intention matter?
2022-05-31
45 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Is there good and evil fashion? We collectively yeet the abominations in fashion.
2022-05-31
22 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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We talk Uvalde and our hatred for the republican party in Texas. Thoughts and prayers is a bull corn way to say you just don't care
2022-05-27
26 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
ADF Episode 1.4
We talk this week about higher education and how that trap of 'the romantic designer life' brings so many to university programs of design lacking fundamental skills that never have a teaching focus in many programs
2022-05-25
39 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD After care SAMPLE PFF
This is typical of our aftercare content, where we offer insight and real solutions for our typical PFF content and episodes. Please support our designer friends at angelforfashion.com and look for upcoming content on our patreon.
2022-05-24
1h 00
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Megan sees a model complaining about designers being cheap. This is not the first, but the system is broken and we begin that discussion.
2022-05-20
43 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis PFF Wednesday Bonus 05182022
We have the big sads, and we talk frankly about our coping mechanisms, if we are, how we are, what has pulled us through before. There's F-bomb, and bj mention (not baby Jesus, a al maria bamford,), brief mention of unaliving/suicide.... this will not be the episode that gets us on apple podcasts.Please support our Ukrainian fashion friends at Angelforfashion.com
2022-05-18
45 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episide 1.3
We talk OPP (Other Peoples' Projects/Problems), industry people that don't know how project development and pattern archiving happens for clients trying to shame us for keeping back up copies for them. We probably drop some f-bombs.
2022-05-17
51 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
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Megan confesses to cutting down existing labels that had Austin, Tx closing the care portion, and needing new labels. Its just a Friday talk jammy. We say the word sh*t and that f'n one only once. If you find another curse word, let us know and a thing might happen.
2022-05-13
13 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
ADF Episode 1.2
New designers and making the sale.
2022-05-10
42 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis PFF Tuesday 05102022
We talk pockets and why a client might think they want them, but the style of the garments they select are not suitable for the worn look. We talk Eshakti.com and JIT fulfillment, Rachelelspeth.com, Angelforfashion.com, Sharif handbags, Ditto Form, and puppers.
2022-05-10
40 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis PFFF week in wrap, 05062022
We wrap up our week of talks in fashion re: Rachel Elspeth Gross of Rachelelspeth.com and Fashion Constellate, Jen Sidary of Angelforfashion.com
2022-05-06
44 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis PFF *Jen Sidary of Angelforfashion.com 05052022
Advanced Fashion Disruption invites Jen Sidary to catch up on what she is up to at www.Angelforfashion.com and how you can support Ukrainian designers.Brief mention of war crimes, but today's episodes is cussin' free.
2022-05-05
39 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis PFF Bonus MET Gala Episode with Rachel Elspeth Gross
We are horrified at the Kim K wearing of the Marilyn Monroe historical textile to the MET Gala. We talk of the event's beginnings of Midnight parties in Central Park, moving swiftly to ettiquette loss as a whole for the fashion industry. yikies. Please find Rachel's many and detailed projects at Rachelelspeth.com Thank you so much Rachel!
2022-05-04
1h 01
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 1 Season 1
Episode 1!!!! We dish the project runway-ification and the romantic notions outsiders or new to fashion people think this business is about.As always the hosts views to not reflect current or future sponsors
2022-05-03
1h 05
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis Phone a Fashion Friend Bonus 1 Season 1
Yooooooo, the Met Gala just happened. Its consuming all of our Tuesday call. #metgala
2022-05-03
53 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis Phone a Fashion Friend Friday04292022
We discuss some mutual fashion friends and their projects. Rachel Elspeth - Gross of Little Red Fashion, Fashion Constellate, and her own spectacular historical dives on instagram, and how she taught me about manifesting the audacity of greatness. We then move on to talking Ukrainian fashion and Jen Sidary's brilliant project AngelforFashion.com
2022-04-29
24 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 0.4
Our last of Episode 0 ADF co-host interviews. Please submit your questions today!
2022-04-26
1h 05
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFD Episode 0.3 Phone a Fashion Friend
Our shorter weekly phone call where we discuss current fashion industry topics and prepare you for our full length show.
2022-04-26
16 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis Episode 0.2 Phone a Fashion Friend
Our longer Friday release of Phone a Fashion Friend. Our unscripted weekly phone call where we catch up on each other's work. We invite you to schedule a Friday and talk fashion with us! Ask us your deepest questions, industry or other wise.
2022-04-22
24 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
AFDis Episode 0.1
Since we are going deep, we begin the hard questions put to each other. This is a multipart and on going series, and we welcome your questions for our Fashion After Care segments.All the content of this podcast are the opinions of the co-hosts and does not reflect current or future sponsors.
2022-04-19
33 min
Advanced Fashion Disruption
Episode 0 (It all starts with phone calls)
We began this disruption as homage to our many calls we made to each other over the years.
2022-04-19
06 min