The W. David Marx Interview with Throwing Fits

Throwing Fits

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Our interview with W. David Marx is where status meets culture. David—author of the books Ametora and Status and Culture—popped by the studio on his way back home to Japan to educate us on what’s up with his name, the origin of big fits, why the Japanese do American menswear so much better than Americans, the best things about his adopted homeland, online menswear culture in the west vs. the east, his favorite Japanese brands and stores in Tokyo, Tokyo and Seoul’s fascinating cultural exchange, niche trends he sees bubbling that could reach our shores, clout chasing, what he does that exudes status, the four pillars of good taste, his journey from being a young streetwear nerd to meeting Nigo to serving on the board of Human Made, how he discovers new interesting things, the biggest tourist faux pas to avoid when traveling to Japan, building your own trust fund, what makes Throwing Fits special and much more on W. David Marx’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	Are you ready?
0:01.0	I wonder if you know how they dress in Tokyo.
0:05.0	If he write it, then you read it, then you know he know he know need go.
0:09.0	I'm a Torah trip, trip, trip, trip, I'm a Torah, trip, trip, trip.
0:12.0	Throw again. Trip, trip, trip, trip. I'm a total trip, trip, throw gang, we are joined by the non-fiction Pharaoh,
0:16.8	the Imam of Ivy.
0:18.0	Last name, Mark's no Carl, so you know he copin that capital
0:20.7	and the production is mean, like serving a, Martinez, we got this guy, Jin.
0:24.9	He got status and culture, you a small-foused vulture.
0:27.4	Penn floating on the page, that's a Tokyo drift.
0:29.7	He dropping bombs in Ametora, like Torah,
0:31.6	Torah, Torah, he know Negro, you know weak hoes. Oh, he's a. bombing these nuts. His whole life of W can't even pronounce L's, author of Amatura, how Japan saved American
0:45.2	style and status and culture, how our desire for social rent creates taste, identity, art, fashion,
0:50.7	and constant change. W. David Marks, how the hell are you?
0:54.6	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:56.7	I didn't get us.
0:58.3	I'm good.
0:58.9	Okay.
0:59.9	You're not going to tell we mean Japanese?
1:01.6	You know, I'm mean, when in America.
1:03.8	Okay.
1:04.6	I would appreciate English personally.
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