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The Business of Fashion Podcast

Lewis Hamilton on How his Formula 1 Career Led Him to Collaborate with Tommy Hilfiger | Inside Fashion

The Business of Fashion Podcast

The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

From race cars to runways, Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton sat down with BoF’s Editor-in-Chief Imran Amed to discuss his collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, who also makes a special appearance in this week’s episode of the BoF Podcast.   Sign up for BoF’s Daily Digest newsletter here: http://bit.ly/BoFnews.

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0:00.0

Why fashion? It seems so far away from...

0:03.0

It really is.

0:04.0

Yeah. Where did that come from?

0:06.0

It's only me and my dad really.

0:08.0

People of color.

0:10.0

So on the racetrack, we were different.

0:12.0

And that made me really shy.

0:14.0

But when I went to my first fashion show,

0:16.0

and I just remember seeing these people of different walks of life.

0:19.0

Like, oh my God, I can be myself in this arena.

0:21.6

There's people from all over.

0:23.6

You've taken quite a strong stance around sustainability and the environment.

0:27.6

When I sat with Tommy, I was like, I wanted my collection to be fully sustainable.

0:31.6

If you're a brand that has not become sustainable in the next two to three years, you'll be out of business.

0:36.6

I really believe that.

0:38.7

I think it's really important that we continue to push the fact that everyone is open to everybody.

0:45.9

Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion.

0:49.6

And welcome to Inside Fashion this week.

0:52.6

We're sitting down with a race car driver. Lewis Hamilton

0:56.2

is a six-time Formula One champion, but he has also started collaborating with Tommy Hilfiger.

1:02.9

I sat down with Lewis the day before the collection was launched at London Fashion Week to get

1:07.6

his backstory to learn how he became one of the most successful Formula One

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