The Who What Wear Podcast: Inside the Creation of Simkhai’s Upcoming F/W 25 Collection With Jonathan Simkhai

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Jonathan Simkhai, the creative director of Simkhai, founded his eponymous line in 2010. Critics and customers alike took notice; in 2015, he won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, and in the years since, his feminine, sculptural, and utterly wearable designs have become go-tos for celebrities and unapologetically chic women everywhere. He joins Who What Wear Associate Director of Special Projects Kristen Nichols today to talk about how his retail background has helped shape his design philosophy and everything that went into ideating and creating his newest collection—which debuts at NYFW in just two days!

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1:02.9	Yeah, eBay.
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1:11.6	eBay, things people love. Welcome to the Who What Wear Podcast, your direct line, to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion.
1:36.0	I'm Who What Weir's co-founder and chief content officer Hillary Kerr, and today our associate director of special projects, Kristen Nichols, is chatting with the founder
1:46.1	and creative director of Sim Kai, Jonathan Simkai. At the time of recording, Jonathan was just two
1:52.8	weeks out from his fall winter 2025 show at New York Fashion Week, and today we're just two days
2:00.1	away.
2:06.2	Kristen talks to Jonathan about how he got his start in fashion, the inspiration behind his upcoming collection, and the other designers he's most excited to see during fashion month.
2:12.4	It's all coming up on Who What Where.
2:27.2	Jonathan, thank you so much for joining me on the pod. I know it's such a busy time.
2:30.6	Thank you so much for having me on here. I appreciate it.
2:35.8	Yeah, so excited to chat. You have such a fascinating fashion origin story.
2:41.3	So I'd love this. You could dive into some of your earliest fashion memories. And then how did you start working in the industry as a teenager? Yeah, so I actually started working in a sweater
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