A-Cold-Wall Plots Next Chapter in Milan | Inside Fashion
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The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Samuel Ross sat down with Tim Blanks to discuss preparing his luxury streetwear brand for its next stage of growth, as he’s sharpening and humanizing his approach.
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| 0:00.0 | This is probably the first time I've confidently been able to achieve the personal philosophy |
| 0:09.2 | and value system I have and manifest that throughout the collection. |
| 0:14.1 | What's put forth is nowhere near the end goal, but it's light years ahead of what was initially |
| 0:19.0 | debuted. |
| 0:20.0 | The first few times I experienced the Cold War was this, wow, I can do this. |
| 0:24.6 | This recognition of the power of the idea. |
| 0:26.6 | Yes. |
| 0:27.6 | You yourself were quite a Cold War, you know. |
| 0:29.6 | And there's been this really interesting process. |
| 0:32.6 | You've solved them. Cold War got warm. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, |
| 0:40.3 | and welcome to a very special episode of the BOF podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | This week, our editor at large, Tim Blanks, |
| 0:47.6 | sits down with Samuel Ross, designer and founder of the London-based fashion label, |
| 0:52.7 | A Cold Wall. |
| 0:53.9 | During this men's season, Samuel has moved his fashion show from London to Milan, |
| 0:58.0 | and it presented an opportunity for Tim Blanks to sit down with Samuel to take stock |
| 1:03.0 | of the five years since he founded his label back in 2015. |
| 1:07.0 | Samuel's business was self-funded and inspired by the British class system, reflecting on his personal story growing up in Brixton in a working-class neighborhood and studying design. |
| 1:16.5 | In this wide-ranging conversation, Tim explores Samuel's personal story, his rise to becoming one of the most important menswear designers in London, and his decision to move his show to Milan. Here are Tim Blanks |
| 1:29.1 | and Samuel Ross inside fashion. Hi there, this is Tim Blanks. I'm with Samuel Ross from a cold |
| 1:39.7 | wall and he has a lot of very exciting new developments on the horizon. So this is a conversation |
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