Wear Many Hats is a podcast from producer Rashad Rastam, who crosses paths with creatives in their mediums to take on different topics such as pop culture, music, fashion, and art within their craft. Episodes out every week that are enough for you to know if you wear many hats.
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1. Barbara Calloway - Prayer For Families 2. Victory Worship feat. Vanessa Howell - What a Beautiful Agnus Dei 3. Damara Melissa - Where I Wanna Be 4. Rachel Kerr - Artist in Me 5. Tamela Mann - He Did It For Me 6. Aaron Lavell - Saved by Grace 7. Caleb Carroll - Jesus In Me 8. Elevation Worship - You Really Are 9. Brooke Ligertwood - Ancient Gates 10. Elevation Worship Feat. Jonsal Barrientes - Same God 11. Rachel Kerr - Glory 12. Psalmist Raine & The Refresh Tea - As It Is in Heaven 13. Ry ...
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Alec Luu is a fine art photographer. I met Alec out front of Friend Editions in the Lower East Side and we had witty banter from the start. Alec talks about the subconscious mind and his relationship with the complexity of simplicity. I talk about that often on this show. Alec sees and problem-solves through this lens. Please welcome Alec Luu to We…
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Anna Z Gray is an entrepreneur and a vintage connoisseur. Anna is the founder of Club Vintage, the department store of vintage sellers. Anna runs the cult newsletter 'Things I would Buy If I Didn't Have To Pay Rent' up on Substack. I met Anna at Nine Orchard during a party on the rooftop where she knew what my crushes were when I had to enter them …
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Laila Wayans is a producer, drummer, and DJ. Laila is the drummer of NYC's Been Stellar. I met Laila at Victoria Bar for the debut of their new record "Scream From New York, NY." Off of Dirty Hit. Laila was super welcoming with great conversation, talking about her time living in LA but always in NY. When I left she was like who are you? And I can …
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Hush Forte is a producer, composer, rapper, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. I met Hush with friend and guest of the show, Jonathan Richetts out in the Lower East Side then crossed paths with Hush at The Hoxton with friend Bobby Whigham. Lo and behold I ended up creating music with Jonathan at their studio and in the other room I could hear H…
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Erik Carter is a graphic designer, art director, illustrator, animator and creative director. I've always been involved with design twitter but when it goes off, Erik is on the scene. Typography. Color. Capitalism. Chaos. images4cash. Design Harder. Erik Internet. Please welcome Erik Carter to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/erikinternet …
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Avery Trufelman is a podcaster and radio producer. Avery is best known for her work on 99% Invisible and her podcast, Articles of Interest. Is this the collab show we've all been waiting for? Articles of Interest is a show about what we Wear Many Hats. Podcast and it's the same but there's three more episodes so it's not. Please welcome Avery Trufe…
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David You is the founder of the coffee and tea room, Balue Stockholm. I first met David when he was in New York working with the Lichen family. You can feel the calmness in his captions with the beautiful photos he takes of Balue and its environment along with the wonderful offerings he presents. Pop up and tea experience. Showroom for catering and…
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Thor Kimmell is a designer and illustrator. I first met Thor over at Round Two where we bonded over vintage, design, and history. Thor has done illustrations for friend and guest of the show Sudan Green from Spirits Up! Extra Butter, Timberland, and Round Two. Thor likes to ride bikes and make bootlegs. The perfect combination. Loser Vandross. Heav…
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Daisy Alioto is a writer and the CEO of Dirt Media. Daisy also co-founded the NFT funded newsletter, Dirt. Daisy's journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review Daily, TIME, New York Magazine, GQ, among others. Daisy's tweets have appeared on my timeline every time I open up the app and it's so go…
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Jean Pierre Consuegra is a designer and record label owner. Jean runs Working Title Studios which focuses on design for the NY underground music scene. Jean runs Somersault Records which hosts friend and guest of the show Jialing and other amazing musicians. Jean was formerly at Vinyl Me Please but is crushing it at Jupiter Disco as head of design.…
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Julia Shiplett is a writer, performer, and comedian.Julia was named a Comedy Central Up Next Comedian, a TBS Comic To Watch and a Vulture Comedian You Should Know. Julia has a newsletter something shiny* where you can read her love for Marketplace, her reasons on running, and self promotion for where she's doing stand up next. Julia is also a Freel…
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Ares Maia is the founder of Bloom Playground and a Multidisciplinary Designer and Visual Artist. Ares infuses her work with vibrant colors and symbols influenced by her cultural heritage and immigrant experience. I first heard of Ares by inviting her to be a part of the first ever Commercial Type and Dahsar Zine Fest that Wear Many Hats put on. Are…
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Drew Kaufmann is the founder of Million Goods. Million Goods is a space fusing menswear and music subcultures to form a broader sense of community. I first learned of Million Goods through pop ups and remember Drew handing me a flyer way back when and seeing them all throughout Brooklyn. We love fliers over at Wear Many Hats. Have you not seen our …
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Ep 292 // Greg Jackson - Greg Laboratory
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Greg Jackson is a New York based freelance apparel design director specializing in, but not limited to, technical sportswear and performance clothing. Greg has worked in apparel for NikeLab, Yeezy, Saturdays NYC and Gap along with working with collaborations that Wear Many Hats is inspired by. New Balance, Aimé Leon Dore, but let's not forget that …
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Marleigh Culver is an artist and independent designer. Marleigh's has a few different dream projects that Wear Many Hats align with such as anything with music, residential murals, restaurants, wine labels and brands, and the list goes on and on. Marleigh has an impressive playlist curation called Marleigh Radio where you can find over 300 playlist…
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Isaiah Carter is a multi hyphenate creative and the founder of Natal Space. Natal Space works in film and television productions, as well as digital shorts. Isaiah oversees the visual and conceptual of all Natal Spaces projects from early development through execution and release. His production credits include short films "Kinfolk" and "Borrowed T…
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Haruko Hayakawa is a CG artist and creative director. Haruko considers herself an artist who loves to explore the intersection between commercial creativity and pop art. She has a deep passion for the world of consumer products and how brands shape our culture, leaving a lasting imprint in our memory. I found Haruko through friend and guest of the …
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Rachel Krupa is the founder of Krupa Consulting and the owner of The Goods Mart. Rachel has been in the best of both worlds elevating emerging brands through press and retail. We love a local community that's better-for-you, a place that provides better-for-the-planet products, showcasing and launching emerging, primarily female-, BIPOC-, and LGBTQ…
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Anna Sing is a multidisciplinary designer in Brooklyn. We love the way she uses type on her projects and with clients. Greenhouse type is one of my favorite typefaces of all time. It suits us very well over at Wear Many Hats. ‘It’s Nice That’ featured her when she created a “bouquet” of typefaces inspired by houseplant history. Plants, flowers, col…
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Dan Esberg is a Creative Director, Copywriter, and content creator. Dan has a show on YouTube called Dansplaining where we bonded over coffee when crossing paths at Colbo. Dansplaining is where he creates explainer videos that give substance to nostalgia. Some of his videos include “Why “Bad Graphics” Make You Feel Good…” & “Explaining and Assembli…
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Lee Eisenberg is a writer and producer in Hollywood, writer on The Office, the creator of Jury Duty as well as the founder of Nuvet. Lee hails from Boston, comes from a family of ideas and lives with his family in LA. We chat about hotels, duvets, starting companies, and intertwining it with his writing. Lee’s wife jokes that he comes from a place …
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Dương Gia Hiếu is a founder, designer, and maker at Ném. Photographer and multidisciplinary artist Dương Gia Hiếu is based out of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) and originally from Gia Lai in Vietnam. Don’t worry I found out where he originally was online but I did meet Hiếu at Ném while in Vietnam for the Wear Many Hats World Tour. Ném is a space fille…
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Fumee Lee is a creative director, matcha connoisseur, and musician. Fumee is the vocalist for Fifth Flow, what he calls a matcha fairy but the owner of Maison Hime and the director of the social media agency, Neko Natch based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Fumee works with many brands and restaurants in KL that does design works • social media • brandi…
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Lee Zhan Tzeh is an entrepreneur. Lee runs the bakery, Flaaah, and the natural wine bar, Small Shifting Space, both based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I met Lee at the Petaling Street/Chinatown area of where Small Shifting Space lives and we had a good time going down the menu and trying new desserts. Pastries and desserts is all I’m into these days.…
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Zak Klauck is a Founder & Creative Director at A — Z by Zak LLC Zak LLC is a multi-disciplinary studio focused on creative direction, identity and experience design for a wide range of institutions, individuals and brands. Zak is a graphic designer known for his work on photobooks, zines, identities and posters. Zak is the former founder and creati…
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Apollo Baldoz is a Designer and Motion Graphics Animator based in New York. Apollo has worked on Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour visuals, HBO’s SHAQ Docuseries, and Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj on Netflix. I met Apollo at friend and guest of the show Rich Tu’s ‘Human Response’ exhibit and knew I was with good peoples. Emmy, Peabody, Cleo, we’re going…
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Albert Chang is a Designer and Art Director based in Brooklyn. Albert’s work revolves around brand identity and is currently design lead at Squarespace where he oversees a team of talented brand creatives. I met Albert IRL at Hester Street Fair when Commercial Type and Dahsar hosted our first ever Zine Fair and he pulled up to the Wear Many Hats ta…
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Abby Jones is a Music & Culture Journalist from Austin, Texas based in Brooklyn, New York. I found Abby via Twitter because music Twitter is the last good tweets to read. I connected with her tweet “it’s cool that strawberry switchblade is going viral on TikTok” but hones ting every tweet she writes I get. Abby has written for Pitchfork, Consequenc…
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Gabrielle Lamontagne is a Creative Director and Illustrator based in New York. I met Gabi IRL at Hester Street Fair when Commercial Type and Dahsar hosted our first ever Zine Fair and she had a table with us. Gabi was selling bodega prints along with a few vintage postcards and a certain movie star pulled up. They’ve been best friends ever since. G…
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JIALING also known as BIG J is an artist and musician originally from Baltimore, with roots in Taiwan. JIALING has performed at Papi Juice, can rip on the chello, and there’s a photo out there of her wearing many hats. Please welcome JIALING / BIG J to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/jialing.bigj …
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Tyreek Mitchell is a man that I crossed paths with at colbo but later learned that he was over at snow peak. Tyreek enjoys the great outdoors, leather jackets, and has an ‘on the corner’ vintage Miles Davis t-shirt that is one of the most beautiful relics I’ve ever laid eyes on. Tyreek has modeled for the homies and has impeccable taste. There’s so…
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Paolo Jay is an internationally published Filipino American Freelance Photographer. PJ is one of my good friends from Philadelphia, PA where I met him during the Abakus Takeout days to Ps & Qs but also crossed paths with him at Temple University and at every pop up Ubiq had to offer. PJ takes wonderful portraits, food and beverage, editorial and ev…
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j ember is a musician. j ember put out his new record ‘Ultraviolet’ right at the start of the New Year which is bold and we’re here for it. Get your year started out right. j ember has worked with friends Take A Day Trip shoutout David and Denzel. j ember has been featured in Wonderland Magazine, featured on the Spotify playlist Indie All Stars, an…
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Mie Kim is a multidisciplinary artist primarily creating ceramic sculpture and limited design objects. I crossed paths with Mie through the internet via friend and guest of the show Cameron Morse, where they both share a similar minimalist lifestyle in Montreal. A few of my favorite archive pieces in her collection include the Flux II, Moon Jar Ser…
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Isabel Münter runs a Chess Club in New York City called Pawn Chess Club with Simone Robert, where they’ve had chess clubs at your favorite haunts like Casetta, Casino, and Metrograph. Isabel also runs Homes + Studios with Rachael Yaeger, which is an archive of artists’ homes and studios and architectural gems around the world, most of which you can…
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Ep 270 // Johann Rashid - Promiseland
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Johann Rashid aka Promiseland is a multidisciplinary artist who works in the forms of music, performance art, and video. Johann has done work for Seekings, The Voidz, Nick Murphy, and more musicians. Promiseland released his new album ‘Sad But Happy’ featuring tracks with Melati Malay, Samantha Urbani, and Julian Casablancas. Promiseland has suppor…
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Jubilee is a DJ and Producer. Jubilee runs her music label and party, Magic City and each Magic City night shares her love for Miami Bass, electro and breaks. The Top 25 DJs Who Defined The Year 2023 Jubilee has some of the best Tweets I have ever read and her hot takes are always served hot, never cold. Please welcome Jubilee to Wear Many Hats. …
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Thu Tran is an illustrator, animator, writer, and producer. I remember Tran from the early days of YouTube when she produced and created Food Party that eventually went to IFC and Late Night Munchies on MTV. Check out Spaghetti Inc for all your Thu Tran original artworks, Giphy for her cat gifs, The Misguided Guide to the Origin of Everything on Yo…
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Jinah Rhee cut her teeth in hospitality. Jinah works alongside NA:EUN Hospitality as well as the brand development and collaborations. The Korean Cookbook is out now on Phaidon Press. Please welcome Jinah Rhee to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/jinbunz …
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Stephanie Lau is a cook. I found Stephanie through the Wear Many Hats food universe of friends who are bomb cooks. I swear the working from home meals have been elevating. Dropping mini recipes to make some of the most delicious snacks and munchies. Miso yaki onigiri, peaches and cream toast, corn mochi, sardine banh mi on that Nick & Sons sourdoug…
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Isabel Slone is a writer. Isabel is a fashion and lifestyle journalist based in Toronto, Ontario. She has been writing about fashion professionally since 2012 and has been published in the New York Times, ELLE, the Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, The Strategist and more. I found Isabel through her Tweets when she retweeted friend and guest of…
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Phuong Nguyen is a creative director and multidisciplinary designer based in Brooklyn, NY. You may have seen Phuong’s work for Recess and Domino Magazine. She has also worked with various brands across media, wellness, fashion, beauty, food, technology and more. Her works have been featured on Adweek, NPR, and The Zoe Report. Phuong is also an arti…
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Melissa Cho is a bilingual multimedia creative. A journalist, creative producer, and editor… she says she can’t help but have her hand in several honey pots but that’s just another way of saying this podcast name. Melissa has been featured in Vogue, Jubilee, and Shoutout LA but is mostly known for her podcast, hAAPI hour with Melissa Cho, an excuse…
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Darro Chea is a musician. I met Darro at the Echo Park Tennis Courts when I got back into tennis and didn’t know that he was a pop punk musician. I mean how could I have known? Ahh yes. The hair. Darro put out his new album ‘Accidents’ which reminds me of all the pop punk greats as well as ‘j.o.m.o.’ which means the joy of missing out. Didn’t think…
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Ep 261 // Marquis Williams - Highly Recommended
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Marquis Williams is the founder of Highly Recommended, a premiere and buzzing wine club based in New York City. Highly Recommended has done collaborations with Gangsters Buy Flowers for their coasters and with friend and guest of the Wear Many Hats show very own, Christine Espinal, for their wine rack that was sold at Lichen NYC and the Brooklyn Mu…
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Jer Umai is a content creator, food photographer, restaurant reviewer, and cook. You can learn a lot from his breakfast, lunch, and dinners. The udon, the bento boxes, the omakases, the onigiri, the ramen, the dumplings, the homemade bagels, diy handrolls, the udon, and don’t let me get started with all the sandwiches. The waffles, the pancakes, ad…
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Uffie is known for hits during the bloghaus movement, now peak indiesleaze but we’re going very strong. You know her from ‘ADD SUV’ featuring Pharrell Williams and ‘Pop The Glock’ from ‘Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans’ off of Ed Banger but have you heard of ‘cool’ off her new album ‘Sunshine Factory’ on Chaz Bear’s Company Records? Whole record hits inc…
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Hampus Lideborg is an Art Director and 3D Designer. Hampus runs Objects by Lideborg where he explores textures, shapes and objects with photography, scans and digital tools. Hampus takes beautiful stills with his Leica Camera everytime I see him. I love running into Hampus when he take long bike rides with his VanMoof all around New York City. We a…
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Kristina Ang is a content creator and loves fashion. Kristina runs the Life of An Ex-Fashion Student Podcast where she talks about being an ex-fashion student and an aspiring designer where she walks you through the realities of her journey as a fashion student and what it’s like to work in the industry. Kristina is the Social Media Coordinator for…
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Charlotte Rose Benjamin is a musician. Charlotte put out a record called ‘Dreamtina’ and is gearing up for a new one. I’ve seen Charlotte out and about playing through every Brooklyn venue there is with all of our friends and guests of the Wear Many Hats show. My favorite tweet of hers @charlobenji goes something like this: 'everything is a band ev…
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