Fashion Conversations with Bronwyn Cosgrave is a bi-weekly interview series featuring lively discussions with artistic luminaries working at the forefront of fashion.
Bronwyn's guests include leading designers, best-selling authors, filmmakers, museum curators and Hollywood stylists. Her conversations go deep. Guests reveal the secrets to their artistry, thoughts on social issues impacting fashion and the personal challenges they've overcome realizing their dreams.
Bronwyn is the author of best-selling fashion history books. She produces feature-length fashion documentaries and writes journalism about design and fashion.
Her humanistic, research-driven interview style is shaped by her extensive work as a fashion historian, a television commentator and broadcaster for international radio networks such as the BBC, CBC and NPR.
Fashion Conversations with Bronwyn Cosgrave is a Wondercast Production.
From Rihanna’s Right Hand to Diesel Sport’s Creative Director - Meet Melissa Battifarano
Melissa Battifarano was once known as “Rihanna’s right hand.” That’s how Vogue has described her work helping to establish Fenty Corp. as a fashion player with Rihanna. On the episode, Melissa unpacks how she created Fenty X Puma and Savage X Fenty with the diamond-drenched performer. She talks about how rising through the ranks of labels like Sean John, Champion and Tory Sport, she worked with the teams that merged athletic garb with fashion and created athleisure and sport luxury.
The downtown New York designer shares how she now balances her work producing Tony 1923, her own luxury sportswear line inspired by her late father, with a new role ideating Diesel’s first activewear line under the brand’s creative director, Glenn Martens.
15 Apr 2022
My Breakfasts With André
Timothy Han, the London-based Canadian founder of Timothy Han / Edition, reveals how his passion for literature, and his time assisting one of fashion’s greatest storytellers, John Galliano, inspired him to build his brand. To commemorate the passing of André Leon Talley, Tim harks back to a special moment during his Galliano days when he spent six weeks assisting American Vogue’s legendary editor-at-large.
The pandemic prompted Tim to expand his brand to include fashion and considering this, he explains how his training at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and his friend, the model, Cecilia Chancellor, guides his clothing design process. Contemplating the urgent need to move toward a sustainable future, Tim shares why his ethical methods are informed by his Canadian identity.
2 Apr 2022
Escape From Kyiv
Anastasia Ivchenko and Eugenia Skibina, founders of the boutique PR agency, Public Kitchen, explain how they helped to establish their city, Kyiv, as the most vibrant fashion capital in Eastern Europe. From Latvia’s capital Riga, where they are temporarily settled, they also share their heartbreaking story of escaping Ukraine in late March, a few days after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of their country.
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