Jessica Helfand, Avery Trufelman|Audio
December 31, 2009
Episode 128: Decoding Luxury
This week, Jessica is joined by Avery Trufelman, creator of Articles of Interest, a podcast series about clothes from 99% Invisible. The recently concluded second season of Articles of Interest explores perfume, diamonds, and other symbols of luxury. The first season, Avery says, the goal was
to try to reach out to guys who think they weren’t interested in fashion, to be like, well what about plaid? What about blue jeans? Like these building blocks of design that everyone can sort of relate to.
And every every once in a while someone will tweet at me like, “Hey, I’m a straight white man. And I thought I didn’t care about clothes at all. But you made me care.” And I was like, “Yes! Ding ding ding!”
Also mentioned this week:
- Bumper: WESU 88.1 FM archives, Maximum Rock and Roll Radio
- Bumper: Cher 1996 Jane Pauley Interview
- James Francis O’Brien, Design by Accident
- 99% Invisible, Cover Story
- Bumper: YouTube, Emmy Kim, Solo — Frank Ocean (Cover)
- Larry Rosenberg, Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation
- Frank Ocean, Blonde, Spotify
- Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu
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