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The Treatment

Waraire Boswell: "Waraire.com"

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Los Angeles clothing designer Waraire Boswell talks fashion in pop culture history.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.3

Welcome to the treatment.

0:15.6

It's always good to have somebody on the show who has what can best be defined as an innate sense of style.

0:20.8

Wow, innate.

0:21.8

Inate, I think it is.

0:23.4

It's beautiful.

0:23.6

It basically started by him building out ensembles for himself because as a man of stature and a man of color,

0:30.7

where Boswell had to figure out what would suit him best, and he's going on into a wardrobe.

0:35.5

Many of our finer people in the NBA from LeBron James, Chris Bosch, to gosh, also now

0:41.9

you do Mr. Fear of God?

0:45.2

Well, the thing is this.

0:46.9

People always ask me, do you only do stuff for athletes?

0:49.2

I say, no, I do stuff for people with credit cards.

0:51.4

That's everyone.

0:52.4

Oh, there's money in it. But when I met you, about a year ago, you would just come off

0:59.7

of doing that incredible piece that Colin Kaepernick wore for the Q cover for his man in the

1:04.3

year cover. And talk about how that came to happen. So it came about Rachel Johnson is a good

1:09.7

friend of mine. And she actually assisted me with

1:11.8

kind of like spearheading the generation prior to this current generation of NBA players.

1:17.3

And we said that was a big shift because that was still back in the days of five button.

1:21.5

Oh, absolutely.

1:22.3

They still adjusted.

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