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Pop Fashion

New York Fashion Week, Kmart's Empty Shelves, Shipping Drama

Pop Fashion

Kaarin and Lisa

Arts, Fashion & Beauty, News, Business News

4.7676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of Pop Fashion! This week, Kmart’s been hiding empty store shelves and a shipping bankruptcy means your clothes are floating out at sea. Another factory has collapsed in Bangladesh, and Kaarin makes us think about whether runway shows really matter. And we’re recapping New York Fashion Week, highlighting some of our favorite shows and some very messy misses. Come hang out!

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Lisa’s Links

Twitter: www.twitter.com/lisatella
Website: www.lisarowan.com

Kaarin’s Links

Twitter: www.twitter.com/closetcaucus
Website: www.truetostyle.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Lisa.

0:01.4

This is Karin.

0:02.6

And this is pop fashion.

0:12.4

It's night fashion and long distance fashion.

0:15.5

You're reporting from a closet in Florida.

0:18.2

It is like a legit closet.

0:19.2

Like before I've reported from a closet, but it was a

0:21.4

roomy walk in. This time it is the accordion doors style that I have put within blankets and

0:30.0

pillows and a glass of wine. You look like you're in a movie where somebody's trying to find

0:35.5

you and you're trying to hide like you're hiding in the

0:38.1

closet yeah see in between the slacks yeah it's like a less technological version of panic room

0:44.2

also i made a i made a filter from my microphone out of a running sock i am so impressed with us

0:52.2

you've got your own little fort in there it's amazing podcast. Podcast McGiver. And you have wine. I would not come in here unprepared. I have wine. I have water. I have my phone in case I need to call for help. I've taken off one of my band-aids. Oh my God. Did you just hear that fire siren? It was like bram-bram. I thought it was a duck like inside my house. The duck is calling from inside the house.

1:28.8

I can't. Did you just hear that fire siren? It was like, bram, bram. And then it was a duck, like, inside my house. The duck is calling from inside the house. I currently live in a very noisy location. Like, the windows are thin, and I am in downtown. That's taken some getting used to. Luckily, it's only temporary. I miss all of you. But it's fashion week, so maybe we should talk about some fashion news.

1:34.0

And then we can talk about Fashion Week. Sounds good to me. Start us off. Okay, Kmart.

1:39.8

We've been talking a lot lately about what stores are doing to get people to actually come into them and shop.

1:47.0

Kmart is actually getting people to shop by covering up parts of its stores. So Kmart has been having a hard time. Declining sales are a major issue and it's actually taking some of its

1:53.2

super Kmart stores and turning them back into regular Kmart stores. And so they're not going

1:58.8

to knock down parts of buildings or anything, right? Like they have these stores. They either own them or lease the space. And so they're not going to knock down parts of buildings or anything, right? Like,

2:01.2

they have these stores. They either own them or lease the space. And so they have to make the most

2:05.9

of the hand that they have dealt for themselves, right? So they've taken these big floor to ceiling

2:11.0

white sheets. And they legit have made a false back to the store. There's nobody behind that

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