Fashion Week Special: Christian Siriano and Nicolette Mason
Never Before with Janet Mock
Pineapple Street Studios / Lenny Letter
5.0 • 771 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is your fave, Janet Mock, and I'm back with a super extra special super, super amazing treat. |
| 0:11.2 | Yep, you heard me. A bonus episode of Never Before to tide you over until we return with a new batch of conversations with the most amazing cultural figures. |
| 0:21.8 | And this one is super close to my heart. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm letting you eavesdrop on a little chat between me and two of my most fashionable friends, |
| 0:30.0 | Christian Siriano and Nicolette Mason. |
| 0:32.8 | Christian Siriano is a designer who has dressed all of your faves. |
| 0:36.2 | Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Jalo, Leslie Jones, Solange, and yours truly. |
| 0:43.3 | He burst into the hearts of fashion lovers everywhere when he won the fourth season of Project Runway. |
| 0:49.3 | He's the Kelly Clarkson of Fashion, emerging from reality TV to construct an influential empire, |
| 0:55.7 | which includes ready to wear, couture, fragrances, bedding, and even pay less shoes. |
| 1:00.7 | Nicolette Mason is a brand strategist and creative consultant, and now a designer of her own line, |
| 1:06.4 | Prem, which launched in July for sizes 12 to 30. Talk about inclusive. |
| 1:11.6 | She was also contributing editor for Mary Claire, |
| 1:14.6 | where she helmed the groundbreaking column, |
| 1:16.6 | Big Girl in a Skinny World. |
| 1:18.6 | The magazine also brought us together, IRL. |
| 1:21.6 | How we adorn our bodies has always been political. |
| 1:24.6 | Fashion is a $1.2 trillion global industry with $250 billion |
| 1:30.3 | spent annually in the United States alone. The industry is securing all of the coin, |
| 1:36.3 | but at what cost? Christian and Nicolet are expanding our culture's definition of beauty, |
| 1:41.3 | doing the work every single day to ensure that regardless of class, |
| 1:46.3 | race, gender identity, body shape, or size, that we all have the ability to see ourselves reflected |
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