A Matchesfashion Podcast

Omari Douglas, star of hit TV show It’s a Sin and Eddie Redmayne’s celebrated West End production of Cabaret, talks to his friend and collaborator, the stylist Rose Forde, who has become acclaimed for her fresh approach to red carpet dressing. They meet Danielle Radojcin at 5 Carlos Place, MATCHESFASHION’s Mayfair townhouse, to talk about their friendship and shared inspirations, and discuss their Curated By shoot for MATCHESFASHION.

In our podcast series, In Conversation, we bring together a fashion designer and an artist whose work inspires them. In this episode, designer Roksanda Ilincic and self-taught multi-disciplinary artist Tai Shani, who won the Turner Prize in 2019, discuss reshaping traditional notions of femininity and why fashion should be even more intertwined with art.

In the latest from our series exploring the intersection of fashion and art, the fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu sits down with his friend and collaborator, the celebrated former Royal Ballet principal Edward Watson, to compare feelings over endings and new beginnings; the transformative power of stage costume; and how a shared trait in their upbringing contributed to a natural disregard for gendered clothing.

Continuing our series bringing together a fashion designer in conversation with an artist, we hear from Simone Rocha and Sophie Barber. Simone is the London-based designer known for romantic silhouettes offset by gritty contemporary accents. Hailing from Ireland with roots tracing back to Hong Kong, she has become a star of the London fashion scene since launching her label in 2010. When we made this recording, over the internet, it was barely a week since she’d staged her highly personal SS22 collection inspired by the experience of having her second child. Sophie dialled in from her home in Hastings on the south-east coast of England. The 25-year-old first came to Rocha’s attention when she visited her solo show in London in 2020. Enchanted by the artist’s playful, sense-tingling work, she finally had the chance to meet her in real life at Alison Jacques Gallery in London, which represents Sophie and where, at the time of recording , she has a solo exhibition of new paintings. Simone in turn invited Sophie and her boyfriend Ben to sit front row at her show. Listen as the pair get to know each other, discovering the parallels and differences in their respective practices.

Is fashion art? In this new podcast series, we bring a fashion designer together in conversation with an artist whose practice inspires them. In the inaugural episode, designer Gabriela Hearst and artist Laurie Simmons discuss women they admire, timelessness and their influences.

The acclaimed architect and pioneer of high-calibre minimalism talks to Danielle Radojcin about designing stores for Calvin Klein and Christopher Kane and the value of the physical retail space in the digital age.

As her latest novel is published, the writer talks to Danielle Radojcin about the memories that inspired Hideous Kinky, and how her family inspires her work.

The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer speaks to Danielle Radojcin about responding to Black Lives Matter through his choreography and dressing up in Nureyev’s costumes.

As a new book celebrating 30 years of her work is published, the renowned American artist speaks to Danielle Radojcin about some of her career highlights and documenting the times we live in. (Image courtesy of Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times/Contour by Getty.

In this series of mini audio guides, experts and insiders bring you the most important news, up-and-coming talent and local insights from the Frieze art fairs. Even if you can’t be there in person, the creatives featured in this series will guide you around all the pulse points of interest and excitement in and around the fair. In this episode, Rebecca Siegel, director of Americas and content for Frieze Los Angeles, speaks to the Brooklyn-based painter Dana Lok. Her work experiments with different viewpoints and examines, among other things, the interplay between space and time. Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including the Fisher Landau Center for Art and the Judith Charles Gallery, as well as which she has received a number of awards and scholarships such as the Andrew Fisher Fellowship from Columbia University. Rebecca speaks to Dana about how she is involved with Frieze New York 2021 and how her art responds to the world today.

In this series of mini audio guides, experts and insiders bring you the most important news, up-and-coming talent and local insights from the Frieze art fairs. Even if you can’t be there in person, the creatives featured in this series will guide you around all the pulse points of interest and excitement in and around the fair. In this episode, Rebecca Siegel, director of Americas and content for Frieze Los Angeles, speaks to Jenny Schlenzka, executive artistic director at Performance Space New York. Originally from Berlin, she previously worked as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, where she was responsible for launching the performance art department. Working as she does at the forefront of new artistic endeavours, Rebecca asks her about which up-and-coming artists and under-the-radar events to look out for at Frieze New York 2021.

In this series of mini audio guides, experts and insiders bring you the most important news, up-and-coming talent and local insights from the Frieze art fairs. Even if you can’t be there in person, the creatives featured in this series will guide you around all the pulse points of interest and excitement in and around the fair. In this episode, Rebecca Siegel, director of Americas and content for Frieze Los Angeles, speaks to Kimberly Drew, the Brooklyn-based curator and writer who came to public consciousness with her Tumblr, Black Contemporary Art, where she built an audience of young, creative and socially minded fans. They discuss her involvement with the Vision and Justice project, and why it has evolved into the powerful political arts and culture platform it is today. She also shares her tips for how best to spend an afternoon enjoying art in New York.

In this series of mini audio guides, experts and insiders bring you the most important news, up-and-coming talent and local insights from the Frieze art fairs. Even if you can’t be there in person, the creatives featured in this series will guide you around all the pulse points of interest and excitement in and around the fair. In this episode, Rebecca Siegel, director of Americas and content for Frieze Los Angeles, speaks to Antwaun Sargent, the critic and author, who has recently been appointed as a director and curator for Gagosian. As a New Yorker with his ear to the ground, she finds out from him about the things to look out for outside of the fair – which art galleries, institutions and events we should be watching out for in and around Manhattan, and some of the things we can do if we can’t be there in person.

The cult British-Jamaican designer chats to Danielle Radojcin about the importance of sex appeal and fun in fashion, the enduring appeal of British style, and the power of collaboration.

The celebrated tattoo artist speaks to Danielle Radojcin about the Los Angeles scene that nurtured him and how he has become one of the most influential practitioners of his craft in the world.

The stylist and co-founder of WARDROBE.NYC speaks to Danielle Radojcin about life in Sydney, working with Kanye and Virgil Abloh, and her surprising new pastime.

Pat Cleveland, the model who found fame in the 1970s as a Halston muse and catwalk star, looks back at her extraordinary life: a bohemian upbringing in New York’s Harlem, being proposed to as a teenager by Muhammad Ali, partying with Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld in Paris, and her star turn in the Battle of Versailles – a legendary event in fashion history. Photograph by Paul van Ravenstein.

Next in our podcast series is American designer Todd Oldham, who speaks to Danielle Radojcin about his latest project, a monograph on cult interiors magazine Nest. He also discusses memories of the 1990s New York fashion scene, why he was fired from his first job at Ralph Lauren, and what made Area in New York such an amazing nightclub.

In the latest episode, host Danielle Radojcin talks to the legendary fashion designer about the things that mean most to him in life. He also discusses his intrepid childhood, his relationship with celebrity fans like Timothée Chalamet and Tilda Swinton, and how he would spend his ideal birthday party.

The British sculptor talks to Danielle Radojcin from the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York – they discuss what may be Ryan’s biggest year in her career to date; in 2021, she will unveil a statue in east London to commemorate the Windrush generation, and open an exhibition at Spike Island in Bristol, a hotspot in the recent Black Lives Matter-related statues debate. The pair also talk about Ryan’s upbringing in London and her memories of her birthplace, the island of Montserrat. (Image: Veronica Ryan at Spike Island, 2018. Photograph by Jeff Moore. Courtesy Spike Island, UK, and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.