#236: Celebrity Stylist Jason Rembert

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome celebrity stylist for Odell Beckham Jr., Rita Ora, Russell Westbrook, Issa Rae, Erykah Badu, Gucci Mane and more, Jason Rembert to the Upper West Side! We discuss growing up the son of a single mother with four siblings in Far Rockaway, Queens, taking the bus two hours to attend school, his favorite subjects being math and dressing the best and how he graduated a year early and headed off to college. We talk about the jobs he held down selling kids' suits at Nordstrom and then preparing meals in a hospital kitchen, his failed application to intern at Vibe Magazine, before throwing a late-night, Hail Mary attempt for an spot at ELLE, knowing nothing at all about the publication. Jason gets into his time fetching coffee, rearranging closets and learning at the elbow of some of the great editors in fashion, moving over to W Magazine where the tone and energy were way different, what his family thought of his new workplace, and how one day he found himself assisting the stylist for Alicia Keys, and saw the potential in pairing high end brand names with staples from the projects he grew up in. We discuss the early work he got through Carline Balan, the missed opportunity he had with Lady Gaga, how he bounced back from personal and professional losses, and the stellar 2018 he had in which he was recognized for his ground breaking achievements by the CFDA, by artists and athletes alike, by the industry at large, as well as the greater Instagram audience. All that, plus how Jason balances his family life, what separates him in a very competitive business, what he thinks of the fanny pack trend, how he keeps his kids grounded, what his freshman year roommate wore day in and day out to Jason's dismay, and so much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jeff. Hey Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well. Thank you.
0:03.9	Announcement Time. Is that what time it is? It's game time.
0:07.0	Huh.
0:08.9	Guys, first of all, we want to thank the loudspeakers network, home to brilliant idiots and lip service and the read.
0:16.4	The read. All these great podcasts over there. We want to say thank you very much for our time for the last two years of letting us hang out over there.
0:24.9	And we wanted to announce that as of last week, we are no longer allowed at the holiday party.
0:34.1	We have our own opportunities that we're pursuing, and we've stepped out on our own.
0:39.7	We think there's been a lot of wins in our sales over 2018, and we wanted to start 2019
0:44.5	with full ownership and a lot of big expectations and big ideas and big fortune in our future.
0:53.6	So thank you to Loudspeakers network. And the reason why we
0:56.7	announced this, the reason why we're not like just doing, like Twitter says, just do. Yeah,
1:02.7	Twitter says you can't announce things. You just have to do it. Right. Well, we're here because
1:07.2	we love announcements. We feel like this is not just us.
1:12.2	As much as it is just us, it's also you guys.
1:15.5	And we wanted to make this a transparent process.
1:18.9	We wanted to make this where you guys are just as invested in this operation as we are.
1:24.2	And so one of the things that we're doing is involving you guys in a newsletter.
1:29.3	We've started a newsletter. We sent the first one out now.
1:33.3	Yeah. I don't know when we like a few days ago. Okay. We sent it out. But also like every day since.
1:38.3	Right. But what day are people listening to this? I don't know. Today. Today. We've started this today. The newsletter is, is for you guys. It's a way for you to understand what's going on with us, where we'll be, what we're doing, what upcoming events we have, what merch will have. It's so you can skip this intro if you want. It's so you can skip the commercials. It's a way to go directly to you and you to us. And there's a few different ways for
2:02.0	you to sign up for this newsletter. And those are? Pay $500. That is why we're independent, guys.
2:09.2	Yeah, no, you can DM us, your email address. You can email us, your email address. You can go to our
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