ICYMI - The Fashion Expert Twitter Loves to Hate
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🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Slate’s business and tech writer Nitish Pahwa, to discuss the internet history of Derek Guy, better known as @DieWorkwear on Twitter. Back in 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter, leading to major consequences for everyone’s timelines. One of those consequences was the unexpected boosting of Derek Guy, which led to his Twitter account reaching more than 1 million followers. Pahwa interviewed Guy back in 2023, and he returns to ICYMI to talk about Guy’s persona on the phone vs. online, and how the menswear pundit capitalized on becoming the Twitter guy we love to hate.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Alexandra Botti and Kat Hong.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candace Lem. |
| 0:16.2 | And I'm Natish Powah, and you're listening to I-C-YMIMI. |
| 0:20.0 | In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. And Natish Powah and you're listening to I-C-YMI in case you missed it Slate's podcast about |
| 0:22.8 | internet culture and Natish welcome back to the show the last time you were here was back in |
| 0:27.9 | July when we talked about that bagu controversy where they like huge artificial intelligence |
| 0:34.3 | to make a horse bag remember remember that? Oh, man. |
| 0:37.9 | I remember it well. |
| 0:39.9 | As a reminder, you know, I'm the business and tech writer, so obviously all I do is |
| 0:45.3 | write and talk about fashion now. |
| 0:49.4 | And with that, I want to ask a question that I actually have never, ever asked you or probably any guest on this show. |
| 0:56.6 | All right. Hit me. |
| 0:57.7 | Natish. |
| 0:58.5 | Today's episode is about Derek Guy, aka at Die Workwear, who was probably one of the few people to benefit from Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, nowex.com back in 2022. |
| 1:10.6 | We're going to talk about who Derek Guy is and why he |
| 1:13.5 | became the forefront of menswear criticism online, but I actually wanted to ask about you and your |
| 1:20.6 | relationship to menswear, starting with who is in your Bermuda shorts triangle? Let me explain. I have this theory. Okay, I have this theory that |
| 1:32.7 | everyone has three core brands and at least one brand is always on their body at any given time. |
| 1:38.6 | I'll give an example and talk about me first. My three are probably J. Crew,ique, Lo, and Gap. So Natish, I will turn the tables. |
| 1:49.1 | What are your core three brands, your fashion triangles, some may say? |
| 1:53.2 | That is a great question. And I think that's a very smart theory. You know, when I think about it now, yeah, there are definitely three very consistent |
| 2:02.0 | ones for me. On the jeans end, it's Levi's. I love me, my Levi's. I can't get enough. On the |
| 2:11.7 | shirt, sweatshirt, sweater end, love me some Nautica. I think, uh, okay. |
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