Tremaine Emory

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Tremaine Emory is a designer and creative director famous for mixing fashion, art, visual storytelling, and social issues in his designs. Emory is the founder of the collective “No Vacancy Inn,” as well as the clothing label “Denim Tears,” which blends streetwear with high fashion. He's collaborated with brands like Ugg, Stüssy, Champion, Converse, ASICS, and Dior, bringing themes of activism and social justice into his work. Along with brands, Emory has collaborated with some of the most influential figures in art, music, and fashion, including André 3000, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Virgil Abloh, and Tom Sachs. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammaton
0:07.0	I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in college school.
0:26.6	And then three months after I was born, my dad got a job.
0:33.6	Well, he had got the job right before I was born at CBS, Channel 2.
0:38.7	Doing what?
0:39.7	TV news cameraman.
0:40.9	So the guys and girls that hop out the trucks with the cameras, so he'd shoot
0:47.0	stuff, produce stuff.
0:49.7	So he shoot stuff in New York, but he also traveled around the world for CBS.
0:54.0	He did that for 38 years.
0:57.3	When I was three months old, we moved in, me and my mom and my brother moved up to New York with
1:01.4	him.
1:01.8	So we first lived in Flushing for about eight years.
1:05.8	And then when I was like 10 years old, we moved to Jamaica, Queens.
1:09.6	And describe that world. that world man your fond memories
1:13.1	I have all kinds the whole cornucopia of it the block I lived on Keysville loads of kids at the
1:21.5	same age of me lived there so between it was like the boulevard it's farmers boulevardvard, which you're familiar with from, you know, L. L.
1:29.9	Who you worked with and stuff like that.
1:32.0	So he lived on Ileon, where his grandmother lived.
1:36.1	I lived two streets up.
1:38.1	So he's on I off of Ileon on Farmers.
1:41.3	I'm on Farmers in Keysville.
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