From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

If you've seen actors like Paul Bettney, Lawrence Fishburn, or the new Miami Vice with Jamie Fox.

You've seen the work of my guest, Oswald Botang.

Have you seen the show House of Botang on Sundays?

You've definitely seen my guest, Oswald Botang.

Today you get to listen to fashion designer Oswald Botan.

Oswald, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you very much.

Let's talk a little bit before we get started about you and your work,

about the show. What made you decide to do a show like this? Because it was interesting to me about

the shows compared to Project Runways. This is a show about strategy for you. Well, this is actually

quite an interesting story because I've got this friend, a friend of mine who produced a show,

a guy called Ben Silverman. I've known him for, a friend of mine who produced a show, a guy called

Ben Silverland. I've known him for 12 years from London. And he's always wanted me to do something

on television. So quite literally for 12 years, he's been hounding me to do something. And a very good

friend of mine, his name is Varian Bonacost, actually started making a documentary film about me

over the last nine to ten years.

And over that ten-year period, you know,

you can imagine how much your life changes over ten years.

I mean, you know, ten years ago, you know,

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