S1 E5: Henry Holland: The success of a fashion ‘it boy’
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The rise of Henry Holland was incredible. As a young journalism graduate, he designed some t-shirts, just for fun. Within six months he went from selling them via his Myspace account to his brand, House of Holland, being sold in luxury department stores all over the world. Then along came the pandemic. His company went into administration and Henry had to weather the storm of parting with the company he built. In this episode we talk about the pressures of building a brand and how to deal with your own company going under.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | That trip was incredible. |
| 0:09.1 | Barney's meeting, shot by Moselle, Matt in a Winter. |
| 0:12.5 | And then I came back to London two days later, |
| 0:14.2 | was at my desk typing up credits for flip-flops. |
| 0:25.9 | Hi, I'm Spencer Matthews and welcome to my new podcast, Big Fish. |
| 0:31.4 | Join me each week as I sit down with famous CEOs, fantastic entrepreneurs, incredible designers and other famous faces to discuss what it takes to be the best. |
| 0:38.0 | Now, I don't like the term overnight success, |
| 0:41.4 | because anyone who's built a successful business knows that there are often years of pure hard graft. |
| 0:46.7 | But what happened to Henry Holland was incredible. |
| 0:49.5 | He was a young journalism graduate working as a fashion editor at a teen magazine |
| 0:53.4 | when he decided to make some t-shirts |
| 0:55.4 | to wear to go to nightclubs. These t-shirts took off. Next thing you know, he's meeting Vogue |
| 1:01.6 | editor Anna Wintel. His t-shirts are in the shop windows of Barneys and he's being photographed |
| 1:05.9 | in Italian Vogue. I absolutely loved talking to Henry and I hope you enjoy this episode as much as me. |
| 1:14.2 | Henry Holland, thanks for joining. You're very welcome. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:17.8 | You experienced what most would dream of, and it came quite quickly to begin with. Can you tell us |
| 1:23.4 | how House of Holland came about? Sure. So I think success doesn't happen overnight, but recognition can. |
| 1:29.2 | And I think that's what happened to me. |
| 1:31.2 | Overnight success is definitely a dirty word. |
| 1:34.6 | But what happened to me with House of Holland was I was spending most of my time in nightclubs, |
| 1:43.1 | hanging out with creative set of people, |
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