Survival of the Fittest Ft. Recho Omondi

Naked Beauty

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Arts, Fashion & Beauty

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🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

“Here I am running my own business which literally means — I’m making up all of this shit as I go. I’m not any particular genius” - Recho Omondi…… but low-key (IMHO) Recho is a genius Designer, friend and deep-thinker, Recho, returns to Naked Beauty! We talk about her now iconic n*ggas sweatshirt and how it found its way on to Issa Rae’s Insecure, why the timeline is the new runway, how the fashion cycle is constantly persuading us to consume and its subsequent impact on the environment. Recho has received a lot of press (hey Teen Vogue!), but she’s not buying into the hype — she talks about the difference between press coverage and industry success.

We also get into: - How she handles stress when everything feels like it’s falling apart but you also have a business to run (:16)

- Getting back into ballet & the “leave it at the bar” mentality (:21)

- Using heartbreak to create something magical & how the 90s classic “Great Expectations” inspired her latest collection (:28)

- How my Sudio wireless headphones (hey first sponsor!) have changed the game (33:45)

- The trends I’m really over, what I’m loving & getting into the sweatpants look(:35)

- Fragrance obsessions Le Labo, Tom Ford and Byredo (:38)

- Roll-on body glitter, YM & Limited Too Nostalgia & what the youth are missing out on being in this digital vortex(:49:35)

- Is this new generation ‘fake-woke’? Recho thinks so! They shave their heads but not their underarms…. (:52)

- Balancing the toxic and natural elements of a beauty routine (55:30)

- A VERY HOT TAKE ON BLACK PANTHER (:58:20) — don’t worry she still loved it

- That tine Mira Duma used the n-word on Instagram but how it’s even deeper than that (1:05)

- The thought-process behind posting a FIRE selfie (1:10)

Links: Follow Recho: https://www.instagram.com/rechoooooooo/

Follow Omondi: https://www.instagram.com/omndi/ Shop Omondi: http://rechoomondi.com

Recho’s Teen Vogue Story: https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/recho-omondi-fashion-inspiration-racism-exclusive-interview

Sudio Headphones: https://goo.gl/QhpRm1

The Scents We Love: - Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille - Le Labo Santal 33 - Tom Ford White Suede - Byredo B’Al Dafrique

Also check out Lucky Scent to try samples: https://www.luckyscent.com

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0:00.0	I usually do my intro solo but I'm just gonna you're here now so I'm just gonna do it while you're here
0:05.2	okay hello hello it's Brooke Devard you're listening to the naked beauty podcast I am here with
0:11.2	Rachel Amandi this is her second appearance. Yeah. When was our first one like almost a year ago?
0:17.3	Not a year. I think it was last May. It was definitely summer because I had braids in last summer. Yeah it was
0:24.3	warm. Okay a lot has happened since you were last on this show. Really? Yes okay your
0:31.0	insecure appearance. Oh yeah, so Rachel had her sweater on the first episode of the new season of insecure.
0:37.7	That was like a few months after we talked. Yeah, and the last episode of...
0:40.8	And the last episode of... Yes which must have been major you were
0:46.2	in teen vogue recently Erica Badde slid into your gums which I know you're like
0:50.4	too cool to talk about but like a lot's happening for you.
0:55.0	That's I know the background on the sweatshirt thing a little bit because you just give the full story.
1:06.9	The niggas shirt right? Yeah. So it started I guess you definitely over a year ago as a joke I was hand sewing that into like some of my home boy shirts when they would come over and their real clothes and then I put it up for Black History Month
1:19.4	February 2017.
1:21.4	Okay.
1:22.4	I threw it on the website, didn't really know if it would move because like again we
1:25.1	don't have a lot of marketing that pushes people to the website. Right. So like a lot of
1:29.0	our traffic is really like user-generated Yeah, word of mouth.
1:33.0	Word of mouth natural organic.
1:34.4	So people started buying it.
1:37.1	And then, I don't know, because it's such a polarizing word,
1:39.9	it's pretty.
1:41.0	Yes.
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