In the Studio: Christopher and Tammy Kane
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Fashion designers and brother and sister duo, Christopher and Tammy Kane have been trendsetters in the fashion world since 2006. They’ve dressed celebrities and world leaders, blending a playful, sexy aesthetic with working-class realism. Now they're launching a brand-new club night in London, the More Joy Disco. But how does their upbringing in a small Scottish village inform the glitz and glamour of their event? And why is joy such a motivating factor for the pair?
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| 0:23.8 | Fashion needs to stopters, it needs outsiders like us to come in and be like, |
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| 0:32.4 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:36.4 | This is In The Studio, the programme that goes inside the minds of the world's most creative people. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm Damien Barr, and you join me in North London, outside an iconic concert venue and nightclub |
| 0:49.4 | counting down the minutes for a very big night to begin. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm standing outside Coco in Camden, and tonight it's where the Moorjoy desco. |
| 0:59.4 | It's going to be, which I am very excited about, because oh my God, do we need joy in the times that we're living in. |
| 1:06.4 | Moorjoy is a fashion label run by Christopher Kane and his sister, Tammy Kane. |
| 1:11.4 | We are going to create a path of Moorjoy, very optimistic. |
| 1:16.4 | We're just going to keep putting that message, Moorjoy Moorjong, and it's worked, it is working. |
| 1:23.4 | Today, it's famous around the world and all over socials, but Christopher and Tammy grew up on the same street as me in New York Hill, |
| 1:31.4 | a working-class village in the west of Scotland near Glasgow. |
| 1:35.4 | Actually, our mums were pals, but back to the night ahead. |
| 1:40.4 | It's a disco organised by fashion people for everybody, and one of the big, big, big parts of the story is joy and the sense of joy being inclusive. |
| 1:51.4 | And quite specifically queer, his disco is a queer aesthetic. |
| 1:55.4 | Desco came out of the LGBTQ movement in cities like New York, NLA and Norland, also very much the product of communities of people of colour. |
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