Obsessions: Charli Howard On How Pin-ups Help Her Love Herself
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Every other week we'll be picking the brain of a different creative about something they admire that has nothing to do with how they generate their income.
Delving deep into the minds of our favourite people's deepest obsessions, this week we're joined by the inspiring Charli Howard. The business woman and model is telling us all about her love of 1950's pinup imagery, and how in a photoshop obsessed world, finding these images helps her feel emboldened to be herself unapologetically. Ione, Olivia, and Charli also discuss the idea of being sexually empowered vs. sexualised; why we need to stop putting women down for wanting attention, and how as a model, owning her own image, body, and sexuality is of utmost important. Inspired by Emily Ratajkowski's recent essay in The Cut, Charli will also be sharing her thoughts on the industry, what needs to change, and her own experiences.
TW: Sexual assault, abuse of power.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Olivia and hello to all listeners. And hello in particular to Hannah, |
| 0:24.1 | with many extra ends and many extra A's and many extra H's, who left us an amazing review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:31.8 | It says, Perfect Podcasts. Just Discovered This Podcasts. And I am so happy. Really good content, |
| 0:36.4 | especially on intersectionality. |
| 0:38.5 | I love the sleepover episodes. |
| 0:39.8 | Is Ioni and Olivia are fab? |
| 0:41.3 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:42.7 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:44.9 | I think the Obsessions episodes are so interesting. |
| 0:47.8 | Love the idea of hearing from a creative person about something they love but isn't |
| 0:51.2 | their career. |
| 0:51.8 | It's such a good insight. |
| 0:53.2 | Excited to listen to more. |
| 0:55.4 | So thank you so much and please go and leave us a review. We would love it. Definitely makes our |
| 1:00.5 | week better. Thank you so much. That's so nice. So cute. So welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm |
| 1:06.9 | I'm Ioni and I'm the founder and editor of Polyester online and imprint. And I'm Olivia, the co-host producer and editor of the podcast. We publish weekly episodes with the Sleepover Club One Week and Obsessions the next. This week is the Obsessions episode where we talk to a person we admire about something they're obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. And next week is the Sleepover Club where Ioni and I have all those gorge conversations you'd usually have with your girl made it a sleepover. So this week it's |
| 1:31.3 | obsessions. And I can say for my own self that my obsession this week is the huge |
| 1:39.4 | piece of work that we've been working on and keeping a secret, which is the skin you're in. |
| 1:45.8 | It's our brand new podcast series, which, yeah, it's super, super exciting when we've been working. |
| 1:51.0 | So. |
| 1:51.9 | Literally non-stop. |
| 1:53.2 | Too many amazing people. |
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