Special Edition: Sam McKnight on Why Fashion Is the ‘Eternal Optimist’
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In the latest special edition of the BoF Podcast, celebrated hair stylist Sam McKnight talks to BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks about the future of hairstyling and the fashion industry beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are back to launch the next global fashion brand in Making the Cut. |
| 0:05.1 | In this new original series from Amazon, 12 designers from around the world compete for the opportunity to take their brand to the next level. |
| 0:13.5 | New episodes available every Friday. |
| 0:15.8 | Watch Making the Cut, only on Prime Video. |
| 0:32.3 | I had opportunities for four major campaigns after the shows, and not one happened. |
| 0:38.3 | It seems to me that for a few seasons now, there's been a cloud over fashion. I've been saying for a while that it's beginning to me to feel repetitive. |
| 0:43.3 | If we don't have things like extravagant fashion shows, |
| 0:48.3 | the image-making machine of fashion might revert to things like magazines, the way it used to be. I'm not a really ever |
| 0:56.6 | great believer of things going back to how they were. Maybe it will make the world appreciate |
| 1:01.7 | beauty, appreciate how beauty is created, how it should be treasured, you know? |
| 1:17.3 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the BOF podcast. |
| 1:29.1 | This week, editor-at-large Tim Blanks sits down with Sam McKnight to understand how the current situation of the coronavirus pandemic is impacting him and creative people throughout the fashion industry. Tim spoke to Sam as part of one of our BOF live events. If you're interested |
| 1:33.9 | in learning more about these events, visit businessof fashion.com slash events. In the meantime, |
| 1:39.4 | here's Tim Blanks and Sam McKnight Inside Fashion. |
| 1:53.4 | Sam and I had known each other for many years in so many different capacities. |
| 2:00.2 | And it's very, it's extraordinary that in this extraordinary time, I mean, it's appropriately extraordinary in this extraordinary time that |
| 2:02.1 | we get to talk together like this. So Sam, hello. Hello, Tim. How are you? I'm good. I'm |
| 2:09.6 | complete, I'm just nervous and I feel I've got butterwise all the time. I just, this situation, the world is just making me incredibly nervous. |
| 2:22.1 | But the sun is shining and the garden looks beautiful. |
| 2:26.2 | And I know that your garden is your happy place. |
| 2:29.3 | Yeah, it is. |
| 2:30.2 | I'm very lucky to have that. |
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