In Her Shoes: Tracy Reese

The Cut

New York Magazine

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Five years ago, host Lindsay Peoples wrote a piece called Everywhere and Nowhere, What it’s Really Like to be Black and Work in Fashion. It shook the table and ushered in a conversation on race in the industry. She interviewed over 100 people, one of them being designer Tracy Reese who's been working in fashion for over five decades. For the fifth anniversary of the piece, Lindsay spoke to Tracy about what's changed, how far the industry has come and how much work still needs to be done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.8	Welcome to In Her Shoes. I'm Lindsay Peoples and I'm Editor-in-Chief of the Cut. On this
0:58.1	show, I get to talk to people that we love and admire, or some that we just find
1:02.2	interesting. We'll explore how they found their path and what maybe have gotten
1:06.5	in their way, and how they brought others along now that they've arrived.
1:16.1	So five years ago, I wrote a piece called Everywhere and Know Where, what it's
1:21.3	really like to be black and work in fashion. This meant a lot to me for many
1:26.7	reasons, but the main one would be the fact that I wanted to talk about the
1:32.8	lack of inclusivity and diversity in the industry in a way that would hold the
1:39.2	industry accountable and attempt to move things forward. And Tracy Reese was one
1:45.4	of the first designers that I personally remember adoring and realizing that
1:50.2	she was a black female designer. And so to be able to chat with her, I
1:55.5	interviewed her for this piece five years ago and was able to reach out to her
1:59.8	again now as she's now the founder of Hope for Flowers. And in particular, she was
2:05.6	a person that was formative for me in the industry and someone that I wanted in
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