The Terry Donovan Interview with Throwing Fits

Throwing Fits

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Our interview with Terry Donovan is crazy. Terry—chief of brand at Percival—hopped across the pond and worked the pod into his business trip so we could banter on not committing corporate espionage, the OG Crazy Terry era which included modeling shirtless in a gay nightlife flyer, back at the office he's got his fingers in a lot of pies, the 999 (that's British for 911) parody gone horribly wrong, what it's like working for and with his buddy and friend of the show Christopher Gove, how Chris' TF ep landed them a dream Brighton collab, sometimes more red tape is actually better, reformulating your collaboration strategy, a look at some of the hyperspecific skilled jobs if there is officially any Guinness on set, you gotta celebrate the wins, tariffs made American customers disappear overnight, if you work with your best friend you better know how to make each other laugh, knowing too much to ever start your own brand, beefy club nights on the DJ circuit, guys dressing back up and a return to the classics, the retail experience in the UK vs. the US, whether or not marketing works on a marketing master, and much more on Terry Donovan's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	Our guest this week just hopped across the pond to chill with gang and teach a slang.
0:04.1	Mates picked up a world of knowledge in the men's fashion space since he started slinging garments at the tender age of 14 because apparently UK labor laws are still in their Dickensian era.
0:12.3	Step into the ring with us as we go toe to toe to toe for 10 rounds with one of the best dudes in menswear right now.
0:17.6	Here to chat London fashion victims, negotiating for a lifetime
0:20.9	of Guinness and how to bring soccer hooliganism stateside, the chief of branded
0:24.8	Percival. Terry Donovan, Terry, how are you? Well, yes, yes. I'm absolutely banged guys. Yeah,
0:29.8	I'm wicked. You can still say chief in the UK. That's not, uh, you know, we're woke over here,
0:33.7	so we can't say that. Yeah. Well, we are pretty walk in the UK as well, which I'm not anti-walk. Okay. Well, you just banned Kanye. Thanks for nothing, dude. I did not. You personally did it, T. I don't know him at all. I think he is very good at the music. Okay. That's a diplomatic answer. All right. Now that we're done with Kanye, we're going to talk Israel next. That's what this podcast is about. That's really great. And I'm thankful for that. Can I go at the bathroom now? Yeah. Terry, thank you so much for joining us and taking time out of your busy day committing. What did James say, corporate espionage to come podcast? It's not corporate.
1:11.6	No, no, no, no. It's research.
1:13.0	Big things coming.
1:13.9	No, no, no, it's inspiration, right?
1:15.6	Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
1:16.9	Exactly.
1:17.5	Research, inspiration, R&D, development, etc.
1:21.1	Insert the next phrase for what I'm doing here.
1:23.8	Yeah.
1:24.6	Before we get into the meat potatoes of the pond, let's start with the fit check.
1:28.6	And why don't we talk about your flying, no pun intended jacket that you were today?
1:32.6	Thank you. So that jacket is a barber spare jacket. And I absolutely love it. I'm obsessed
1:38.1	of it. So I was looking for it for about like two or three years, came across on eBay. It was
1:43.9	about like $700. I was like, I can't be spending $700 on like a vintage piece. What years is from? I don't know. But it's the old spay because the new spay doesn't have the netting in the pocket, which is fucking fire. That's right. And it's got like these things inside that can clip to other things and down the bottom here. Do you fish your waiters?
2:02.5	I fish for like compliments.
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