Well, hello, everyone. This is the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. If you're brand new around here,

there's an episode every single Monday pretty much for the past five years about Paris, about France,

about things that make Parisians unique, perhaps sometimes. And one of those is fashion for sure.

I've talked about fashion on the show before, but from a female perspective, I've had female guests talking about Parisian women,

but today I thought I'd try something a little bit different. We're talking about men's fashion.

Sort of, there's a large focus on not just sort of what Parisian men wear and how they're,

how they're dressed, but also how people who want to visit Paris can dress.

Now, of course, you can wear whatever you want here. This is about if you want to fit in,

or if you want to feel a little bit Parisian. My guest is Fabian Renaud, a Frenchman who is

the managing director of Joseph, a brand in France. If you're wondering more about Joseph, it's a

contemporary designer brand with a strong core of luxury essentials. I looked it up on their official website.

Fabian himself, he wanted to make it very clear.

We talked about in the episode,

he's not trying to be Mr. Expert of Paris Fashion, you know?

So if you've got complaints, send them to me.

Don't send him to him.

He's just a guy who happens to have a job in fashion.

I think he's a fashionable guy. It's a large part of his life. I sort of put him on the spot and

asked him all these questions. I think he did a great job answering them. On a personal note,

Fabian's a friend of mine. If you have read my book, he's the guy that I went to visit in Brittany.

If you haven't read my book, I despair to think how many in-jokes you'll be missing while

you listen to this podcast. But that might explain why we seem rather chummy is because we

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