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Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Isaac Mizrahi

Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7753 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Fashion designer, podcaster and cabaret singer Isaac Mizrahi joins the show. Over omelets and quiche, Isaac talks about dinner parties with Nora Ephron, being a young gay designer during the height of the AIDs crisis, and career risks he’s taken that not everyone believed in. This episode of Dinner’s On Me was recorded at Pastis in the West Village, NYC. Want next week’s episode now? Subscribe to Dinner’s on Me PLUS. As a subscriber, not only do you get access to new episodes one week early, but you’ll also be able to listen completely ad-free! Just click “Try Free” at the top of the Dinner’s on Me show page on Apple Podcasts to start your free trial today. A Sony Music Entertainment & A Kid Named Beckett production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The other day I was making lemonade with my sons, Beckett and Sully, and Beckett is a little bit of a perfectionist.

0:08.3

I'm not sure where he gets that from. It's me. It's definitely me. But he was getting really upset about the seeds falling into the juice and it was turning into a bit of high drama.

0:18.4

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0:34.0

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0:37.9

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1:00.6

Hi, it's Jesse.

1:04.4

Today on the show, fashion designer, cabaret singer, podcaster, and one of the most entertaining

1:10.2

people I know, Isaac Mizrahi.

1:12.9

We'll get into dinner parties with Nora Ephron, being a young gay designer during the height of

1:17.3

the AIDS crisis, and career risks he's taken that not everyone believed in.

1:22.5

There was this one customer of mine who I loved. She was like a friend of mine, and we were having

1:27.0

lunch. She was like, well, I can't buy your clothes anymore if you're going to make those clothes for Target.

1:30.6

This is Dinner's On Me, and I'm your host.

1:36.7

When I first moved to New York in 1994 for theater school, there were a few

1:40.9

buzzing names in fashion, and one of them was the young upstart, Isaac

1:45.6

Ms. Rahi. His name became synonymous with class and sophistication, something I didn't have much

1:52.8

of when I was the young age of 17. I was going to class in Old Navy, and if I was feeling fancy,

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