Editor’s note: The latest episode of Don’t Mind If I Don’t is out now! It’s on Fashion Week. Quail Bell founder Christine Stoddard is one of the show hosts, alongside Quail Bell associate Aaron Gold. Here’s a brief Q&A with the show’s director and creator, plus the episode itself.
As you can probably tell by the way we are all dressed every episode, co-host Christine is the only member of our team with a fashion sense. The rest of us who wear some variation of the same thing every day (for me it is a “production black” T-shirt and dirty, soon-to-be-ripped jeans) are not so gifted. But this is “Don’t Mind If I Don’t,” we always aim to try the things we claim to loathe, to eat our vegetables. So, this time around, we fashion!
We get a little closer to our team this episode. Literally. We leave the studio and go full hand-held, going into the world of the rehearsal of a fashion show as well as the being on the runaway for the show itself. We also go into the home of an established designer. It was a lot of fun.
-Director Tom Dunn
Christine: What is your number one fashion rule?
Aaron: Feel good about how you look. Otherwise, what are we even doing here?
Tom: Be confident or be clever. I think it is safe to say that my fashion outlook is the same as my conversational style.
What’s the most you ever paid for a pair of jeans? How long did you own them?
Aaron: I think like $100? Is that too much? Is that too little? Someone help me. I need an adult.
Tom: $150 and it haunts me to this day. I bought jeans to go with a suit jacket for an end-of-job party. I felt good on the day, but then I was left wondering where my monies went.
What least surprised you about making this episode?
Aaron: How uncomfortable I felt at all times.
Tom: How happy everyone who likes to be well dressed are when there is an event that calls for it. I’ve been around a lot of people like this in my life and it is always the case. Go ahead, throw a Great Gatsby themed party at your apartment and watch how happy your guests are.
If a woodchuck could chuck wood, would it chuck cat could walk fashion would?
Aaron: Are you having a stroke?
Tom: I don’t believe in alliteration.
What that ‘fit do?
Aaron: Is that a Kendrick lyric?
Tom: It makes me want to buy Aaron some shoes. Good God, man.
Watch the episode here:
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