Lichen is a Brooklyn based interior design incubator. Ed Be & Jared Blake partnered in 2017 combining years of experience collecting, selling and trading designer furniture throughout NYC. Together they aim to create a community of lich-minded individuals enthused by music, creativity, and design. Big Lichen is at 98 Moore Street and Lil Lichen is at 131 Manhattan Ave both in Brooklyn. I first met Ed and Jared when I came in and peeped the USM Hallers for my crib, dropped stacks and had them...
Feb 24, 2021•33 min
Eric Mayes has a personal mission curating and contributing through an intersection of art, science, and education. I met Eric at Lichen, a furniture shop based in Brooklyn and we connected right there on the spot through our mutual friends and love for furniture. Eric runs Fragile Glass, a Brooklyn based candle company that is all about smell goods, handmade right in NYC. He recently put out his first commercial featuring King Heroin by James Brown directed by Eric and produced by Clips Co-Op. ...
Feb 21, 2021•41 min
Renald Louissaint is a Brooklyn based designer and illustrator who balances the different approaches required for both practices to inform all of his work. He describes his work as lush and detailed, carefully researched and composed with typography. You may have seen his playlist covers for Lichen NYC, our good friend David You’s recent cover for ‘Beautiful, Like Pyramids.” Renald is also an illustrator and currently holds a role as a brand designer at Medium. Please welcome Renald Louissaint t...
Feb 18, 2021•49 min
Kate Wallich runs The YC, Kate Wallich Studio, and Dance Church. She’s based in seattle where it drizzles but when it rains it pours wait what? She’s not your tiny dancer, she moves like Jagger, she’s drippin in Dance Church merch, DAHSAR produced the collection. Your church's favorite church. Your dancers favorite dancer. Please welcome Kate Wallich of Dance Church to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/dancechurch instagram.com/katewallich instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam ras...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Thị Minh Huyền Nguyễn is a Creative athlete specifically runner and an activist. I met her at the Canal Street Market in New York City while I was at the shop and she ran her podcast and newsletter, Gold to Green. She has interviewed Artist and Designer Victor Roman and many more. When she bounced out of New York to move back to Berlin I was bummed but months passed and I ran into her while I was out on a run on the Williamsburg Bridge and saw her. It was a moment I won’t forget. Fall of 20...
Jan 28, 2021•37 min
Matt Pecina aka STUDIO GUAPO is an artist, set designer, production designer, prop stylist, based in NYC. He’s worked on trade shows for clients in consulting, Matt is releasing Studio Guapo merch called ROUGH DRAFT. He has collaborated with Richard and Grace been featured with Pink Essay and Roomy. Give it up for #THESHAPESWEMAKETHESHAPESWETAKE Studio handsome, Studio Guapo, Matt Pecina. Please welcome Matt Pecina of Studio Guapo to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/studio.guapo instagram.com/wearm...
Jan 26, 2021•48 min
Archie is one of the founders of PLAYLAB, INC., one of the many amazing people behind Plus Pool, put together the ‘Figures of Speech’ book by Virgil Abloh, installations such as Grown Up Flowers, and Fantasy Landscapes. PLAYLAB, INC. designed with Virgil Abloh for 𝓛𝓸𝓾𝓲𝓼 𝓥𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓸𝓷 Men’s FW21 Runway Show, “Ebonics / Snake Oil / The Black Box / Mirror, Mirror” aka show 6. His team consists of good friends and the team shout out to Jeff Franklin, Dillion Kogle, Ana Thompson, Peter and Gabe...
Jan 23, 2021•37 min
Thad DeBrock is a guitarist that you’ve probably heard his riffs in. Such as for acts Chromeo, St. Vincent, David Byrne, Graham Nash and wait are my notes right, Nelly? He’s also done broadway shows such as American Psycho and The Cher Show. Me and Thad met in Williamsburg and we used to chat about the music industry, jokes, and dating. He would come in with Graham Nash and I thought it was dad. He has performed at CBGBs and rips with PLM his new quarantine pandemic back of a truck show. Please ...
Jan 16, 2021•42 min
Dino Sanchez is a designer working in objects, furniture, and spaces. He designs and builds out of his studio in Pennsylvania. But really Dino does design beautiful pieces of furniture. The summit collection he recently put out he says expresses a direct visual language and a shared vocabulary of components. Which is the most beautiful sentence I’ve ever read in regards to someone making furniture in this day and age. I met Dino for the first time at the Commercial Type Dahsar party for commerci...
Jan 13, 2021•59 min
Slowkey could sound like an animal. It could sound like a sloth going at a slow pace or it could be an animal that surprisingly can go really fast and surprise you with it’s unknown traits and characteristics that make you not know what to expect. My next guest is a friend from, you guessed it, Philadelphia where we used to party all the time and also get things done. My only fond memory is her going to all of Zak and Stoops parties called the ILL Society and let me tell you she’s the life of th...
Jan 10, 2021•1 hr
Lizzy Jo is for the community and she's all about giving back. She uses her design skills for good and a tool to make sure your art is not black and white. She is “multidisciplinary” which she says is a (typical millennial terminology WHICH IT IS!) designer who ties together color and culture in all her personal projects. Lizzy has worked for Art 21, Loud Community, DBN, Hot Mic Media, Business as Usual. She’s a teacher, appreciates the arts, is sex positive, loves color. Please welcome Lizzy Jo...
Jan 07, 2021•59 min
Robert Perry the heart of Tattooed Moms, my favorite bar in Philadelphia where I basically grew up in. Handsome man that basically looks like he’s been in all of your favorite bands. He’s been running Tattooed Mom’s for 23 years! Located at 530 South Street. Basically everyone’s favorite street in Philadelphia, Robert is the kind soul that you would always love running into. The endless conversations we would have of what shows would be on at Tattooed Moms? Craft shows, skate video releases, sta...
Jan 01, 2021•40 min
Homeboy Sandman and I have a relationship like no other. Organic as ever. How I heard about him for the first time was when I met my friend James, spinning me his record “First of a Living Breed” in his apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. James told me what he knew about Sandman and from there on I was hooked. The love language of music in the room having all these special people listening to Homeboy Sandman’s record made me one day hope to see him at a show. Surely enough, I saw him at the Hard ...
Dec 29, 2020•29 min
Justin Esposito aka FREEJBOOSIE aka the man of many talents basically a modern day renaissance man in the streetwear world that we currently live in. I was roommates with his brother Chris back in Philly, and when he came thru, I laced him with Dahsar, and we were homies ever since. Music is his specialty, his background, his everything but what he’s also known for is his contribution to the streetwear world. His knowledge on vintage grails and the music he produces, we need to protect this man ...
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Sean Ben-Zvi is a Barista but not any Barista she is known for her swans, she goes by Seans Swans (@seansswans). She has coined herself as a creative coffee director, cafe consultant, and a freelance barista, so she’s basically under the whole coffee umbrella. I met Sean at her place of work in Boerum Hill as she is the head barista at this amazing venue and restaurant called Public Records. Public Records is one of my favorite places to go to for coffee, a drink, food, and all of the DJ events ...
Dec 19, 2020•57 min
Gabby Basyuk is a copywriter and slings vintage. She has an eye for great finds, a photographer, she has released a couple pieces of published work such as Act of Tenderness and Gaze Vol 1. Gabby is also an event planner, one of her first markets she put on was the Monstera Art & Zine fair up in North Philly featuring 8 Ball Zines, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Space 1026, and High Tide Collective. Gabby runs a market in Philly called 8 Fields Market and a vintage shop called Soft label Vintage. Pl...
Dec 14, 2020•30 min
Marv Mack is a Hip-Hop musician but he's also a video producer and director. He has worked for several companies that you may have heard of such as The Fader, Buzzfeed, Thrillist, and Business Insider. He has a Podcast called Good Ass Job which is a pretty good ass podcast where he speaks with people that have a good ass job and discusses what they do to elevate their careers. Marv blesses us with a sneak of his new record 'MARVELOUS' and a promo intro. Please welcome Marv Mack to Wear Many Hats...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Nick Schon or KENTO, works for Caldera Magazine and works on electronic music. Garvin Kelly or S-BAND, works for Indie Photo Lab, dog walker and works on electronic music. Both of them gave us two special edition sets. Fast forward or listen to all of KENTO's intro set. Please welcome Nick Schon of KENTO and Garvin Kelly of S-BAND to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/0kento1 instagram.com/garvindustries instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar...
Dec 07, 2020•47 min
Voice over Artist and Pizza Creator over at Paulie Gee's, Dylan Schwartz blesses us with a special Wear Many Hats voice over and his love for za. Please welcome Dylan Schwartz to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/dms_audio instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar.com...
Dec 03, 2020•36 min
Furniture appreciation with David Eardley and Anna Ling of Pink Essay. We talk about being their furniture show, Open Space, featuring up and coming furniture designers held at Lichen NYC. Fruit Cup NYC. What it's like being a curator, compare chair tattoos and Julio Torres comedy special on HBO My Favorite Shapes. Please welcome Anna Ling and David Eardley of Pink Essay to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/pinkessay instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyh...
Nov 24, 2020•33 min
Minji Kwon is a graphic designer, dog walker, babysitter, and a snack connoisseur. Amanda Hagenbuch is a photographer, baker, barista, and a musician for her band, Weekend Athlete. The two went to University of the Arts and I know them by going to UArts parties. We talk Philly Naked Bike Ride, Pretzel Ride, and dropping off pastries at Amanda's house parties at 3AM. This episode is not sponsored by Boba Guys. Please welcome Minji Kwon and Syd of Weekend Athlete to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/w...
Oct 15, 2020•27 min
What an honor to speak to type legends Greg Gazdowicz & Christian Schwartz of Commercial Type. Greg Gazdowicz listens to all and I mean all types of music and he blades. Christian Schwartz is a family man. Both are type designers. Please welcome Christian Schwartz and Greg Gazdowicz of Commercial Type to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/commercialtype instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar.com...
Oct 15, 2020•45 min
First Wear Many Hats Podcast episode with Justin Mariano and Eunice Chun. Justin had a full size booth at the Canal Street Market doing cut and sew for many other brands and artists. He seamed pillows, ottomans and his clientele was a full on variety. Eunice was doing the New York grind working as a barista, then on the side worked in the art industry working in art fairs and galleries. She now works as an Operations Coordinator for Daniel Arsham. Please welcome Justin Mariano & Eunice Chun ...
Oct 15, 2020•58 min
