Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by iconic fashion designer and member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Christian Seriano, where I ask him,

how did you become so fucking fierce?

Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm so excited to announce this week's guest, prolific, iconic, major, I mean, I mean, I really, the designer of our generation, I'll just jump right in and say it.

If you're driving, make sure you're ready to handle this week's guest. Welcome, Christian Seriano.

Thank you.

I love it. I love hearing that you're in your closet. It looks glamorous.

You know, everything else in my house is too echoey. Oh, yeah, you know, randomly have ended up recording from my closet. I didn't see it coming, but you know, we're working with it.

First things first. I'm trying to do this new thing where I am really taking ownership of the flow of the interviews, but then I also struggle with my brain and your fringe just looks amazing.

And it does. And it always has. And I can't help it. I love the texture on it. And that's just that's just what our truth is today.

I don't think anyone who listens to getting curious wouldn't know who you are, but you are a prolific designer. And you have your gorgeous own fashion house.

I'm not sure if you're a person of this scene in 2008 you. And basically since then you have really gone from someone who we met on telly to this.

I'm sure it didn't feel fast to you, but in 2008 and 9 and 10. It's like from those years to now you are a household name. You are a incredibly successful designer.

One of my personal favorite things about what you have done is that you have shown that inclusivity and self love and celebration of diversity can be successful and sought after and beautiful. And I feel like you were the first designer that did that.

I know it's such a funny thing to think about that all the years later, just doing things I like to do are became these iconic moments.

And I'm like, I just like like to dress those people. People like, you celebrate all these curvy women. And I'm like, well, who's not dressing Oprah? I'm like, what are you talking about?

I didn't think that that wasn't the right thing. And I always thought that was funny, but also worked out in the end.

So, you know, obviously, I think that we've all been very like inundated right police. So because there is a respiratory pandemic, you know, on our hands, it's affecting the entire globe.

I only get you for 40 minutes. And I, you know, I'm not going to talk about, you know, coronavirus with the most prolific fashion is I'm like, because I got to learn about fashion.

But I do just want to say what you did and how you stepped up in the midst of, you know, this crisis was just absolute is not was absolutely incredible. And thank you.

Thank you. So what can you just without, you know, I mean, I don't, I mean, I guess you need to talk about however long you want, but knowing that we do want to learn so much about fashion from you, because you're genius. But what happened?

So you're mining your own business in your office. And you're like, well, I'm not making dresses right now, because it's all shut down. Let me learn how to make.

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