My guest this week is Paul Smith, the legendary British fashion designer.
Paul and I discuss how a cycling accident launched his career as a creative, why his wife’s knowledge of couture has been essential to their success, and what it’s taken for his business to last 50 years and stay independent.
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(00:00) Paul Smith and cycling
(17:30) History of Le Bon Marché
(23:15) Giorgio Armani on Slowing Down
(24:34) Supreme
(25:04) 18 East
(36:41) Yves Saint Laurent
(44:44) Paul Smith & Land Rover
(49:58) Friendship with David Bowie
(52:41) The Lumineers
(52:54) Jimmy Page
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