Esprit Holdings Limited
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Sep 14, 2026
Judith GurewichGUEST
Thanks to my husband, who was professor at Harvard, I could get a card.
Judith GurewichGUEST
So I got into Widener, and I looked at the old Esprit.
Judith GurewichGUEST
In 1950, I looked at all the French journal and magazines and articles that were talking about Lacan in the '50s because I figured they too didn't understand it.
Judith GurewichGUEST
It took a lot of work to sort it out.
Tom ElliottHOST
Now it's not nearly as popular as it used to be.
Tom ElliottHOST
Women's brands like Esprit, huge in the 80s and 90s, not so big now.
Tom ElliottHOST
Brands that lose their way, 133693.
Tom ElliottHOST
And also today on a sad note, it is of course the 25 year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.
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Tom ElliottHOST
They were the athleisure brand for quite a few years.
Tom ElliottHOST
They appear to have fallen away now.
Tom ElliottHOST
Esprit, and I had an email before from a listener, Tony, who pointed out that Good morning.
Tom ElliottHOST
Good morning.
Tom ElliottHOST
They appear to have fallen away now.
Tom ElliottHOST
Esprit, and I had an email before from a listener, Tony, who pointed out that Jaguar, the car brand, last year had that ridiculous ad that had people wearing strange colours.
Tom ElliottHOST
It didn't feature any cars.
Tom ElliottHOST
In fact, Jaguar doesn't even have any new cars at the moment, so it's sort of a car brand without cars.
Susan Griffin-BlackGUEST
I was a clothing buyer, designer, merchandiser.
Susan Griffin-BlackGUEST
My last gig was with Esprit, and I worked for both founders, actually.
Susan Griffin-BlackGUEST
First, Doug Tompkins, and then after Susie bought the company, Susie Tompkins Mule.
Susan Griffin-BlackGUEST
And that was back in 1991.
Meredith FarleyHOST
When you were younger, did you always plan to work in fashion or how did you move into those first early roles? I always worked in retail and I was naturally good at it from
Susan Griffin-BlackGUEST
the time I was like 15 or 16 and had a really good sense of style.
Susan Griffin-BlackGUEST
and color, finished school with a BA in liberal arts and moved to New York and just started working for a clothing company and kept going and then moved to San Francisco and Had a couple of retail stores, worked for Esprit, helped my dear friend Margaret O'Leary start her company, and then ventured off into formulating these products and getting them into the marketplace.
Susan Griffin-BlackGUEST
So I think I've always been a product person and also vision person in terms of trending and the how and why.
Mario LopezHOST
Brands like Juicy Couture, Gab, J.
Mario LopezHOST
Crew, Coach, Victoria's Secret, Esprit, K-Swiss.
Mario LopezHOST
They're suddenly cool again.
Mario LopezHOST
I can't believe this.
NatsHOST
And now they're making a big, big comeback.
NatsHOST
And there's other brands like Esprit.
NatsHOST
I haven't seen that brand since I was a kid.
NatsHOST
That's making a comeback.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yo man, you're wearing a girl's shirt.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Or is Esprit making baggy boy shirts now too? So to change the subject, I slugged him high in the chest and ran away.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He chased me down to punch me back and left me crying in my girl's blouse.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If she had any guilt about giving the Mimis the lion's share of the clothing budget, I imagine the justification my mother probably used was that my older brother and I would just ruin our clothes working with dad under the greasy trucks.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When they first reached California, the Mimis did indeed become valley girls, the hippest, cutest, best-dressed migrant workers of that year and very likely for many years to come.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The older Mimi, Marge, continued to dress like Jennifer Beales in Flashdance out in the fields, where the sun sizzled any inch of exposed skin.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She wore a spaghetti-strapped, red-and-white-striped Esprit top, white cotton shorts, and a matching headband with her red-and-white leather Nike tennis shoes and took pictures of the vineyards and the workers with her Canon AE-1.
Domingo MartinezSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Her headband kept a white strip of skin on her forehead from tanning, and as a result, she was forced to wear headbands for a few months afterwards, way after headbands were out of fashion.
Jez MedingerHOST
... over the last 12 months.
Jez MedingerHOST
Uh, the Encore Lotus Esprit, which we've just mentioned.
Jez MedingerHOST
TWR, the Jaguar XJS Supercat, and then we've got things like Alfaholics, as you've mentioned, and Tut Hill Porsche, and CAM and some of these other guys.
Jez MedingerHOST
And then right, I might say at the bottom, that makes it sound different, but at a different price point, uh, we've got MST Sports who will restomod you Mark 1 and Mark 2 Escorts.
Dana PerinoPANELIST
unheard of.
Dana PerinoPANELIST
And also I wanted an Esprit t-shirt.
Dana PerinoPANELIST
And that
KennedyPANELIST
was
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
We had all hand-me-downs and I remember my first new outfit.
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
I was in grade five and it was these Esprit baby blue shorts with pleats and pockets and white polka dots and And this white blouse that was this weird fabric that like you could just keep wearing it.
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
Like if you spilled something, you wipe it off.
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
I don't even, I don't know what it was made of, but it was amazing.
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
And I... wore it every day yeah it was just I don't know what it was made of and so I would I would attempt to wear a different outfit because I was like you can't wear this every day but it was such an amazing outfit so I would try on all my other clothes and my hand-me-downs and then I would always wind up in that and my sister would be waiting for me to walk to school and she'd be like Sarah we have to go I'd be like yeah yeah yeah and then every day I would just come down in the same I loved it so much.
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
Yeah.
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
Esprit was so cool.
Sarah ChalkeGUEST
It was so cool.
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