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Working: Fashion Designer Jasmine Chong on Aesthetics, Familial Influence, and Hot Pink

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Karen Han talks to fashion designer Jasmine Chong whom you might know from the reality show Making the Cut. Before founding her own label, Jasmine worked for some of the most influential names in fashion. In the interview, Jasmine explains the profound influence her fashion designer mother has had on her life, creative outlook, and career. After the interview, Karen and co-host Isaac Butler discuss the challenges of unraveling how people develop their aesthetic and what their aspirational garments are. (Isaac is big into Brian Cox’s Succession cardigans..) In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Karen asks Jasmine about “straight-sizing” and how the fashion industry remains centered around a small sub-section of sizes and body types. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Zak Rosen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Personally, as a designer, as an artist, you just keep making even if it's bad to you.

0:14.1

And that's a thing, right?

0:15.1

Something that's bad to you may be beautiful to someone else.

0:18.2

You don't know that, unless you put that into the world.

0:20.7

And we're often such harsh, awful critics for ourselves that I think it's just important

0:26.8

to keep making even if it's not in the medium that you are earning a living in.

0:36.7

Welcome back to Working.

0:38.0

I'm your host, Isaac Butler.

0:39.8

And I'm your other host, Karen Han.

0:42.4

Karen, it is so nice to talk to you again.

0:45.0

How was your holiday?

0:46.0

It was pretty good.

0:47.7

Um, I mean, obviously the level of good is relative because the number of things that

0:52.8

we can do right now safely is kind of limited.

0:55.8

It's like three things, right?

0:58.2

Kind of, yeah.

0:59.2

And my holiday was all, we didn't see anybody.

1:03.1

We didn't do anything that required being around other people.

1:05.8

So it was all right.

1:07.0

How was your holiday?

1:08.3

It was good.

1:09.6

My mother-in-law came up to stay and then we were pretty sure her flight would be canceled.

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