Bonnie Cashin

The Who What Wear team, like our Slack channel was lit up after the show, specifically folks talking about the baseball mitt bags, but I loved how many other interesting spins on Americana were in the collection.

There were collegiate and skater references.

Mm-hmm.

Talk to me about some of the starting points for designing this collection, and I'm also curious about your relationship with Americana because, as someone who didn't grow up in it-

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I'm, I'm interested in how you develop an understanding of some of those codes.

I think sometimes being an outsider, because I didn't grew up, grow up in the US, a lot of my references do come from when I first experienced them.

So a lot of times I see American style through this Hollywood glow, you know, like the first time I saw them was, like, maybe in a movie or a music video, and they still have that.

Old, old.

And it's so funny, 'cause I had a Bonnie Cashin bag and I got rid of it, and I went to Buffalo Exchange, which I- I don't know if I'll ever do an ad for them, but they're the devil's work over there.

They, it is like you, those gatekeepers are difficult.

And they look at it, flick it up and down, "Oh, I'll give you, you know, $250,000 of store credit or $1.50 cash." And you're like, "I'll take-"

And they're just like [laughs]

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I, I got rid of my Bonnie Cashin Coach bag, and I could kill myself for it-

Mm-hmm