Darby Irrgang is a Cinematographer, Camera Operator and Camera Assistant based in Philadelphia and New York. I first met Darby on the set of Soul Glo’s music video for ‘Driponomics’ directed by Dan White, Assistant Director by friend and guest of the show Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy and Director of Photography our lovely guest, Darby Irrgang. We run in similar circles. 1 degree of separation. The music scene in Philly is one of the best music scenes I have ever seen. It is so supportive. Ev...
Jan 03, 2023•59 min
Lee Phillips is poet and a writer. I first met Lee at the Canal Street Market during the Office Coffee days and enjoyed reading her writing for Office Magazine. Lee has consulted for many brands such as Youth to the People and Outdoor Voices and has been on teams with titles ranging from editorial intern to Editorial Director and Lead Copy Writer. Across art, culture, beauty and opinion, Lee has written for publications like Document Journal, Byrdie and more. Even though Lee writes about the men...
Dec 29, 2022•53 min
Sophia Valenzuela is a writer and a model. Wellness writer and matcha lover to be exact. Something I do everyday. Multi-Passionate creative based in Philly. Known from social media, Sophia built an online community that delves into all things self-care, body positivity, fashion & community work. I recognize Sophia from her work with Urban Outfitters and modeling the sweatsuits for Yowie. Can’t wait to get down with all the elixirs and potions we’re going to drop on the show but it will be pa...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Greg Rivera also known as Greg Mishka is an artist and the Co-Founder and President of Mishka Greg has comepeted in Secret Walls along with Pow Wow for graffitti. Remember the mural at Vinnies Pizza? MISHKA began as a company that made cool t-shirts like their signature eyeball. It has since grown into a lifestyle brand that has created its own culture. MISHKA has crafted a distinct world for itself and its legion of Death Adders and Twerps. Creating many characters in the Mishka Universe and co...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 8 min
James Williams III is a Virginia bred/Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist. An insight to Williams journey. He has an expansive background ranging from AutoCAD drafting, Graphic Communications, Activation Design all the way to Mental Health. He has been particularly engaged in his art practice since 2016. James strives to investigate topics neighboring space, way-finding, emotional health and their relation to identity in order to produce multidimensional works that serve as communal sites of ...
Dec 13, 2022•58 min
Nick Rogers is a design producer x creative consultant x weirdo endorser. Nick Rogers has a brand agency called Saturday Cartoons in which builds and develops brands within apparel, home, and CPG industries. Nick integrates high level creative concepts into value based solutions to ensure integrity and growth. With 360º skills in place Saturday Cartoons can provide insight, go to market strategies, planning, creative production and execution. For me, Saturday Cartoons reminds me of my youth but ...
Dec 08, 2022•58 min
Jason Crombie is a writer and the Editor in Chief for Monster Children. I’ve been reading Monster Children for years whether it was for skateboarding, art, music, cars, girls, not porn, travel, design, photography, the list goes on. I have a stack of Monster Children in my USM Haller. No flex. Not porn. In 2003, Jason created the magazine Wooooo that featured Thurston Moore, Mark Gonzales, Zach Galifianakis, James Dean’s roommate, and Michelle Williams, among other lesser-known individuals which...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Rich Tu is a first generation Filipino American and I am not. Well I am first generation though. Malaysian American, which is kind of the first time I’ve ever said that. Rich is a Creative Director, Designer, Illustrator, and artist who has held roles at MTV, ViacomCBS and Nike. Rich has a podcast called First Generation Burden which focuses on diversity within the creative industry. I first met Rich when he showed up to our Dahsar release in collaboration with type foundry, Commercial Type held...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Saeed Ferguson is a designer, photographer, and is heavily rooted in the streetwear community. You may know him as the face of All Caps Studio. But I know him as the smiling face I loved to see every time I walked into Abakus Takeout, now Ps and Qs. Even though me and Saeed would chat it up when I saw him at the shops he worked at respectfully, we would never talk about streetwear. We would talk about things that actually mattered. Topics such as living in our new space, studios, design, coffee,...
Nov 28, 2022•53 min
Emily Burtner is a freelance print designer, photographer, clothing designer, and custom embroiderer.. I’ve been running into Emily everywhere whether it’s in Philly or NYC but honestly I could have ran into her everywhere. I never went to MICA but who knows I could have ran into her there. Ran into Emily at Yowie, a lifestyle shop & design studio in Philly run by friend Shannon Maldonado. The last time I went to PhillyMOCA was to see Emily’s band Marge play and they were so sick. We’re on a...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Olivia Reid Cooper is a Creative Director and/or Art Director, pick your poison. Based in New York City, Olivia worked for Barbarian, Laundry Service, and Annex88. Olivia loves dogs. Hot dog joint. Please welcome Olivia Reid Cooper to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/oliviareidcooper instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar.com...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Hassan Ayub is a Brand Manager who he says does a lot of other things. That includes being a stylist for shoots, account management, event coordination, overall client experience, troubleshooting, and product placement. This is all going down at Yony. A brand that I discovered through a friend and guest of the show, comedian Nick Thune. I met Hassan at the Yony store in LA cruising down La Brea. Me and friend and guest of the show, Harry Gassel took the day off and were bopping to stores checkin...
Nov 17, 2022•55 min
Talk Magazine Issue 4 is available now featuring a ton of amazing creatives, designers, with the best ads with all your favorite brands. Created and edited by our guest today, Harry Gassel. You can buy it now at talk-is.cheap Check out the Food Issue that Commercial Type released. The Kuih Cafe segment is one of favorite reads. Illustrations by Derrick Schultz and written by mutual friend, Christian Schwartz along with Veronica Gan and Barnny Lim. More typefaces from the Commercial Type Vault at...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Marisa Kalil-Barrino is a journalist who has written for Office Magazine, Eater, Brooklyn Magazine and many more. I only know Marisa through her string of the new online Brooklyn Magazine stories. Her stories are honestly the only thing that resonates with me. I still feel the youth ringing through me when I know at least 4 out of the 12 DJs in her list of Brooklyn DJs I need to know. Marisa’s niches include fashion, music, art, culture, and of course the news. So many words, so little time. I h...
Nov 03, 2022•53 min
coolstuff.nyc is a weekly design-forward newsletter by Anna Brettschneider & Garrett Albury dedicated to sharing cool stuff in New York City and beyond. That’s it, that’s the Tweet but it’s not on Twitter it’s in your Inbox, a newsletter every Friday and dropping gems on Instagram. We’ve been to the same art shows and crossed paths maybe at Kathleen Ryan’s Giant Daisy Chain and can’t forget about that giant pumpkin suitable for this time. Do Ho Suh’s exhibition in Chelsea. Hilma Af Klint at ...
Nov 01, 2022•58 min
Paolo Del Castillo is a photographer, illustrator, and a bespoke patchwork designer, and known for his sick colorful patterns for his pants, workshirts and shoes. Paolo uses select materials, then uses his hand for skiving, distressing, painting, screenprinting, blowdrying, carving, sewing. Paolo is not the one who makes your shoes from scratch you racists but his Air Force 1s and 85 Bred ones, 85 Chicagos, Jordan 1s look like the real deal, honestly even better. Paolo is one of the co-founders ...
Oct 29, 2022•56 min
Raymo Ventura is a Filpino-American Animation Director & Sound Designer. Tamara Hahn is a creative director, filmmaker, and animator. Together they make Deuxwave. Me and Raymo were in the same building I had the Dahsar Studio in. Raymo was in a space with jewelry friends, Forge & Finish. Tamara runs Tamarama Studios. Specializing in handcrafted storytelling. Please welcome Raymo Ventura & Tamara Hahn of Deuxwave to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/deuxwave instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh ...
Oct 27, 2022•50 min
Lucy Sanchez is a model, artist, and photographer. I first met Lucy on the set of our Brett Gray photoshoot that Dahsar produced in Philadelphia where she was one of the photo assistants for the great Aaron Ricketts. I was like is a model photo assisting? That’s dope but then again a ton of my model friends assist. They’re more than just a pretty face, they like to get down and get to work. Lucy is signed to APM Models, has been in several New York Fashion Week shoots I was stoked to see that sh...
Oct 24, 2022•57 min
Paul Dally is a musician. I first saw Paul perform opening for Dijon at Music Hall of Williamsburg then an intimate set at the New York City location of the Cactus Store. Paul can throw down an acoustic guitar and also sing and dance to his own tunes while his beat machine plays all night long. While at the Cactus Store the set was so good, we wondering if we could go ”One More Song” but not too loud to make the neighbors mad. Yeah it was that good. Paul Dally has a unique voice that you can bop...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Rhamier Balagoon is a model, musician, artist and activist. I met Rhamier when I worked at the Canal Street Market as a Barista at Office Coffee and was always happy to see him there all the time. I got to know Rhamier from time to time and to see him flourishing in his model career. Rhamier has modeled for Marc Jacobs Heaven, Helmut Lang, Rachel Comey, Noah, Nordstrom The ads for Corridor always pop up in my feed and they’re always of Rhamier. I can’t escape it. Where he has been featured in No...
Oct 13, 2022•52 min
Rizki Nugraha is a photographer and a coffee connoisseur. Rizki is a coffee consultant and developer for Overview Coffee which is based in Wyoming. Rizki loves to explore places and his eye for things is on point. His photos that he takes whether it’s in Hawaii or Jackson is definitely somewhere I want to be. Javanese-raised, Balinese-shaped, and Jackson Hole-based. I’m glad to meet someone from Jackson Hole by way of friend and guest of the pod, another coffee consultant, Elliot Foos. We had to...
Oct 10, 2022•50 min
Claude Shwartz is an actor. Claude stars as one of the actresses on the Freeform documentary series ‘The Come Up.’ Which like this show, it’s all about young creatives hustling as well as partying all over the city. The show focuses in on the ever changing Chinatown, Manhattan where part of Chinatown, there is this micro-trend that gets a lot of talk called Dimes Square. Look it up, there’s articles about it. Wear Many Hats had a full page ad in the local Dimes Square newspaper, The Drunken Cana...
Oct 07, 2022•56 min
Nate Harris is a graphic artist from Philly now based in Brooklyn. He was a member of Philadelphia’s legendary Space 1026 collective from 2016–2019. As a commercial illustrator, Nate has worked on projects with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Target, Warby Parker, and Pelican Books. Me and Nate worked at a coffee shop briefly and I don’t know how that happened but the conversations were endless until we had to dip. His emoticon for his website is the Netflix N but don’t come for him. Please welc...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Ian Shiver is a photographer who I believe every single one of my Philly and LA transplant friends who moved from Philly or NYC worked with except for me, why is that? Ian’s still life photography for brands looks so surreal that make you go more beyond, “ok I’ll buy it” but they all look like you’re in ASAP Rocky’s music video for “LSD” Ian’s represented by DMB Represents but his select clients include Adidas, Polaroid, Kodak, and Questlove, honestly check out his IG, you’ll find a brand you’ll...
Sep 26, 2022•47 min
Claire Salinda is a writer, tarot reader, and consult on Creative Operations. Claire also volunteers as the Executive Committee Secretary for the Surfrider Foundation. I met Claire at the Canal Street market slinging coffees and it was nice to meet her while she was working over at Buffy and freelanced for Human NYC. Claire’s recent projects include partnering with Daily Harvest as a consulting director of creative operations, advising Social Works on their hiring and onboarding practices as the...
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Ali Francis is a writer who I discovered from our friends, Playlab when they provided the Creative Direction on the launch video for Ali’s previous company, Baking Supply Co. Ali is a writer who has written for BBC, Self, Domino, Thrillist and many more. Ali is now an Editor for Bon Appétit. Ali loves the great outdoors, surfing, cooking, creative writing including flash fiction and short stories and obviously food. Ali mentioned to me that she’s anti side hustle so we’re going to talk about how...
Sep 19, 2022•51 min
Ricardo Rivera is a Creative Director and founder of Klip Collective, a creative shop born out of his days as a rave VJ and documentary editor. Ricardo is a visual artist, filmmaker and a true pioneer of video projection mapping, having earned a United States patent for his technological breakthroughs in the medium. His work has been featured multiple times at the Sundance Film Festival, including the commissioned festival bumper in 2014. Rivera has directed full-length light and sound experienc...
Sep 16, 2022•57 min
Ricky Pinela is a content creator that I stumbled across via the explore page on Instagram. For once something that interest me via the algorithm. Ricky hosts a show called Bop or Flop where he runs into New Yorkers on the street and ask everyday questions that need everyday answers. Ricky does Hot Takes over on Tinder. My favorite social media site. Just playing. Ricky is at Kairos, previously The New Yorker, and Brut all working in social media whether its Content Producer for Tik Toks or Snap...
Sep 13, 2022•56 min
Jayquel Michael Williams is a photographer who I met during Kamp Flea that was presented by Kamp Grizzly out in Greenpoint by McCarren Park. Jayquel has a studio called Landline Studios that keeps you connected to the community formed at the intersection of American and Japanese Culture. Jayquel has a podcast that he hosts with Kevin Da Moah called Keeping it 9000 where they have Anime conversations from an NYC POV. Jayquel also has a moodboard called Kinomori where he posts interesting images f...
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Shelby Kay is a still life stylist that I’ve known since the Philly days. Shelby thinks I don’t think she’s cool but I’ve always known her to be mad cool even before the Urban Outfitters days. Shelby be working with Kendal Jenner for Moon, Post Malone with the PlayLab crew, Better World Fragrance House with Drizzy, what’s not cool about working with all those brands. Shelby is the gurl with the curls. Please welcome Shelby Kay to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/shelbyekay instagram.com/wearmanyhat...
Aug 30, 2022•53 min
