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Behind the Runway – Producing NYFW with Veronica Romero · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ Prostyle and this is Pennydellas.
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  Speaker 1: And this is teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by Berkeley College.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to teach Me Something
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  Speaker 1: by Berkeley College with Pennydellas and DJ Prostyle. How are
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  Speaker 1: you feeling today?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm feeling better because it's warm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's warm. It's so cold outside New York City.
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  Speaker 2: The snow is no longer pretty.
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  Speaker 1: No it's not. It's the black. It's like the walls
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  Speaker 1: now of dark, ugly snow.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just Christmas past, the ghost of Christmas past.
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  Speaker 2: But what has brought clarity to our lives today and
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  Speaker 2: a little sparkle in the studio is that we are
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  Speaker 2: speaking all things New York Fashion Weeks, the business of fashion. Combermero,
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  Speaker 2: vice President of HC Creative Event Productions, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, thank you guys, and I feel so special, Thank
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  Speaker 3: you special.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you wear when it First of all,
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  Speaker 1: let's go right in. So what are you wearing right now?
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  Speaker 1: Because because with the snow outside, I mean, she's onto fashion.
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  Speaker 1: So like, what do you wear when it's ugly snow
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  Speaker 1: like it is outside. This is not the pretty snow.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, ugly snow.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I rather die than not being in style.
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  Speaker 3: So of course I have my boots, old fox leather.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so no, no disrespect, but you're not wearing like
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  Speaker 1: ugs or something like that right now. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I am Mexican. So I have my beautiful boots,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like Rancho boots.
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  Speaker 4: That I love. They're good for the every day but
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  Speaker 4: also for snow.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what I'm wearing.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get some fashion tips that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to do a carousel with her outfit, like
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  Speaker 2: the tax because we're just wearing.
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  Speaker 1: No, I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't ready for it.
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  Speaker 2: Wearing the merch. So tell us about your journey. How
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  Speaker 2: did it begin? How did we end up as a VP?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, so I started obviously in Mexico. My father
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  Speaker 3: had his own brand and he was already in the
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  Speaker 3: industry of fashion. He had a medium company in where
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  Speaker 3: he was doing machilada, which is like mass producing for
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  Speaker 3: other brands, but one of his inspirations was his own designs.
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  Speaker 3: He was a mechanical engineer, can you believe that, and
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  Speaker 3: ended up in fashions. So he was really good at
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  Speaker 3: traying and he would like to do that on his
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  Speaker 3: free time, like just draw sketches of different clothes. And
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  Speaker 3: obviously he was a man, so he was drawing sketches
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  Speaker 3: for women clothing.
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  Speaker 4: So it was funny.
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  Speaker 3: That about a year prior for me showing up in
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  Speaker 3: his life, he had this inspiration of the name de Vetnik,
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  Speaker 3: coming from I don't know, I guess French, and he
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  Speaker 3: created the design of the brand and how different designs
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  Speaker 3: were gonna, you know, encompass what the Veronique was showing
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  Speaker 3: that that will be his first brand for women clothing.
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  Speaker 3: And then later he decided, well, if someone within the company,
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  Speaker 3: because it was a family business, is going to have
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  Speaker 3: a girl, the name will be Veronica. And then I
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  Speaker 3: come a year after. So I learned a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the business from my dad. Unfortunately, you know, the Latin
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  Speaker 3: American countries, they don't have a very political, stable economy,
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  Speaker 3: and so in a downfall, I ended up coming to
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  Speaker 3: New York because the economy in Mexico wasn't strong enough,
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  Speaker 3: and with all the dreams I had, I started working
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  Speaker 3: in restaurants first, and later I met my husband and
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  Speaker 3: we decided to open up our own and then from
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  Speaker 3: that we went to events, catering, creating events, special memories
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  Speaker 3: for just like socials, from weddings, personal business, all type
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  Speaker 3: of things. And then from one day to the other,
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  Speaker 3: I met this beautiful Venezuela, lady Adriana Mauretra, which is
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  Speaker 3: the creator of New York Fashion Week AM and literally.
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  Speaker 4: We just click.
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  Speaker 3: We was like when you meet a friend but it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't your friend, and it's like you cannot is that
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  Speaker 3: moment chemistry.
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  Speaker 4: Like you know them for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to work on this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So it was that chemistry.
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  Speaker 3: We were sponsoring one of the events in where Adriana
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  Speaker 3: was head of the of the runway and we just
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  Speaker 3: had a few conversations and it was just very casual,
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  Speaker 3: but eventually.
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  Speaker 4: Our path cross again.
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  Speaker 3: We also had again the opportunity to sponsor another fashion
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  Speaker 3: event and that's where we were able to see her
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  Speaker 3: in her full you know, display of producing and creator.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't her event, but she was already helping big
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  Speaker 3: firms and designers to do the wrong way, fixing the models,
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  Speaker 3: getting the models, and you know, it's an entire thing,
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  Speaker 3: it's an entire process, and so later on we just decided,
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  Speaker 3: why don't we just do our own right and so
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  Speaker 3: that is going to be I think it's two years
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  Speaker 3: and something already, so we are already actualations. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: now we're here for the fifth edition. Is like it
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  Speaker 3: went on the blink of an eye. So many things happened,
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  Speaker 3: so many memories. Also, one of my daughters has been
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  Speaker 3: part of the wrong way with her learning from her
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  Speaker 3: because she also has a model in school. So one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that made me click with Adriana is
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  Speaker 3: because she created the Women Without Limits in New Jersey
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  Speaker 3: in where she we included everyone, so girls that were
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  Speaker 3: really young but had the desire to become something better
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  Speaker 3: and bigger, and also the older women that were already
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  Speaker 3: in business and they were entrepreneurs, but they didn't have
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  Speaker 3: the confidence in themselves to walk in a runway or
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  Speaker 3: just walk and give a presentation to a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: like they were lacking something and they didn't really know
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  Speaker 3: what it was. So once you meet Adriana and her organization,
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  Speaker 3: she has an entire array of different seminars, classes.
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  Speaker 4: Ways to teach you how to dress styling.
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  Speaker 3: All the people that are also contributing with us in
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  Speaker 3: terms of the designers, the people, the artisans.
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  Speaker 4: That are doing the jewelry, and all these makeup artists.
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  Speaker 3: It's like an entire team that helped us and these
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  Speaker 3: ladies build up in their confidence. So it is truly
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  Speaker 3: transformational journey for all the girls and the women that
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  Speaker 3: enroll into her organization. I got to see them from
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  Speaker 3: coming like very shy, kind of like covering their face
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  Speaker 3: with their own hair, and little by little taking the seminars,
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  Speaker 3: taking the classes, going on the hills and starting with
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  Speaker 3: different diets, feeling better, taking care of themselves completely. So
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  Speaker 3: it was that transformational journey in where they started loving themselves, bringing.
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  Speaker 4: All these beautiful self love that that's really.
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  Speaker 3: The confidence that everybody needs, because yes, we're in the
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  Speaker 3: business of fashion and we can't dress up really nice.
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  Speaker 3: But what happens if you don't have that confidence inside
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  Speaker 3: of you, then you're not.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna really project that. Then it's just an illusion.
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  Speaker 3: So she is that type of person that creates that
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  Speaker 3: inclusion in where she brings everyone real people, true people
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  Speaker 3: like you me, like the neighbor, the person that has
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  Speaker 3: a shop, downstairs together. If that's the transformation that they
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  Speaker 3: are looking for.
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  Speaker 2: That is so beautifully authentic building that ecosystem. And we've
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  Speaker 2: spoken about this. I think every episode is your network,
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  Speaker 2: is your net worth, and building that community and seeing
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  Speaker 2: that professional development transferable skills go into personal development. And
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about the fashion and when people think of
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  Speaker 2: New York Fashion Week, we picture glamor, the lights, the glits,
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  Speaker 2: But what is the reality for you within your niche
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes of the glamor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, like you said, we're a niche, we are
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  Speaker 3: a Hispanic community, but we're inclusive for everyone. The platform
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  Speaker 3: is really open to any designer from wherever part of
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  Speaker 3: the work they want to come.
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  Speaker 4: They're all welcome. Just in case someone is hearing us.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, we started as a Hispanic community and so
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  Speaker 3: we're very proud of it and we want to showcase them.
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  Speaker 3: So we have a lot of the already upscale designers
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  Speaker 3: that they have been here for thirty years, and we
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  Speaker 3: merge them also with new emergent designers and within that set,
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  Speaker 3: that's where we show that clamor. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: you don't need to be you don't need to have
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  Speaker 3: attag or you don't need to really have a record.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like the desires and the creativity that the
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  Speaker 3: designers want to bring to the run way. What really
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  Speaker 3: projects the glamor. I think that at the end a
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  Speaker 3: run way is that it's like seeing in physical contact
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  Speaker 3: all that vision that the designers going back back back
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  Speaker 3: into the time where they were seeing on their tables
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  Speaker 3: and drawing those skeedges and drawing those dresses or garments
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it is if it was jewelry, the blin
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  Speaker 3: blink or no blin blink, but all that comes back
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  Speaker 3: into the wrong way and then obviously yes, they're is
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  Speaker 3: that glamorous aspect of it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was going to be a model, so.
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  Speaker 4: You can still come and try it with them. I'm
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  Speaker 4: actually we should go.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna my wife actually has a clothing brand,
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  Speaker 1: her own line, and I was going to model her.
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  Speaker 1: Our kids did it. Obviously she did it. So I
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  Speaker 1: was able to see kind of behind the scenes a
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  Speaker 1: little bit on on during New York Fashion Week a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago. What is so much that goes on?
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  Speaker 1: But for the people watching right now and even for myself,
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  Speaker 1: like these runway shows, right and and that whole week
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  Speaker 1: and everything that goes because the shows, there's runways everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and there's all these different the objective of it, the
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  Speaker 1: objective of it, right aside from networking, Like, who's in
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  Speaker 1: the audience really like that that that the outcome? What
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  Speaker 1: is the question trying to say here? I'm trying to say,
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  Speaker 1: like what is the outcome that that is there people
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  Speaker 1: like from clothing brands and stores that want to get
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  Speaker 1: your fashion into their department stores or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Like so when it comes to you, you're let me
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  Speaker 2: translate from my brother Alex here forever to get into this. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what is the return on investment? Do you hand select
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  Speaker 2: the audience members to choose warehousing, fashion houses, looking at
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  Speaker 2: maybe press to cover the lines? How do you navigate
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  Speaker 2: that portion of it?
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  Speaker 3: So we're more focused on awareness, uh and getting you know,
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  Speaker 3: into the social media all that those assets that will
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  Speaker 3: help us create and build more content. At this moment,
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  Speaker 3: we are not looking for let's say, retailers or wholesalers
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  Speaker 3: to come and sit down. I mean, obviously if they
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  Speaker 3: would like to come, they're welcome, but they were looking yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: because there are different types correct, there are different type
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  Speaker 3: of fashion shows that are ones that are pretty much
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  Speaker 3: close to the public and where the biggest houses for retailers, wholesalers,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, they come and sit and then watch
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  Speaker 3: the show. Our show is not like that. It's more
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  Speaker 3: like you said, the Glamoor, what is going to happen
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  Speaker 3: be there.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of a curated experience, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, it's an entire experience. A lot of the audience
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  Speaker 3: is going to be entrepreneurs there in different fields, so
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  Speaker 3: you can find from banks, insurance to people that own
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  Speaker 3: screws and ships and you know, retails, you name it,
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  Speaker 3: they're there. So it is really interesting. It's a different mix, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: What kinds of clothing so specializinger? Is each show different?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So right now we're going to have five different
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  Speaker 3: designers and they are all from Latin background and they
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  Speaker 3: are focusing more on women, on women, Gallas and Glamour,
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  Speaker 3: So we do have some of them that they already
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  Speaker 3: have their dresses and their garments and also the jewelry
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  Speaker 3: on not only fashion shows but also on TV in
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  Speaker 3: you know, for example, beauty contest like Miss Universe and
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  Speaker 3: like high ticket contests like that, and it's very interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Because they bring that to the show.
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  Speaker 3: So you get to see a mix sometimes between the
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  Speaker 3: clothes of the designers that we have plus the artisan's
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  Speaker 3: jewelry or the shoes or whatever, you know, other garments
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  Speaker 3: or accessories that we put them together, so we portray
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  Speaker 3: different experiences.
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  Speaker 2: So are you going to wear a gown or the
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  Speaker 2: jewelry and.
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  Speaker 1: The jewelry.
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  Speaker 4: Is they're gonna be only the jewelry?
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  Speaker 2: I well, you know, Justin Bieber just performed as boxers.
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  Speaker 1: Yah. I've lost some weight, but not enough to do
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  Speaker 1: that yet. Okay, don't get me in trouble with uh.
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  Speaker 1: There's obviously a lot of moving parts to doing these
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  Speaker 1: shows and everything you do with the runway. What are
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  Speaker 1: some of the biggest challenges when producing multiple shows under
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  Speaker 1: a time you know, a tight timeline.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, the time is exactly that, Like Kronos is the
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  Speaker 3: god right, If things, people, vendors and the people of
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  Speaker 3: the entire team don't synchronize on the timing, everything crumbles
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  Speaker 3: from there. So I would say that absolutely the time
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  Speaker 3: is the biggest issue here. But that's the reason why
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  Speaker 3: we also try to select people that we definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Know we've worked with the team exactly, the team.
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  Speaker 3: That we know that we worked with them in the past.
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  Speaker 3: We try to kind of marry with some of them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, But obviously this is a big industry and
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  Speaker 3: some of the team members sometimes they have other events
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  Speaker 3: going on, so we have to pick and you know,
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  Speaker 3: leave some aspects there. But definitely the timing that everything
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  Speaker 3: comes in a sequence. If you don't have certain things
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning, the next two, three, four steps won't happen,
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  Speaker 3: or they might not happen with a good synergy. And
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  Speaker 3: once again going back to synergy, I think that's also
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  Speaker 3: one of the key elements. Having a good energy and
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  Speaker 3: a good communication with all the members and the teams
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  Speaker 3: and the designers and the models and the producers. It's
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  Speaker 3: super super important the sponsors. If you don't have this
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  Speaker 3: nice energy, then things start going in different directions. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of resistance. But that's also one of the
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  Speaker 3: things that I love from Adriana that she has always
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  Speaker 3: been able to create this nice environment in where you
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  Speaker 3: become part of a family, you become part of a friend,
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  Speaker 3: a friend, friends and family, that's what I would call.
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  Speaker 3: So all challenges can be overcome as long as you're
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  Speaker 3: working a team, right.
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  Speaker 2: I love that how far in advance. Do you begin
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  Speaker 2: planning for a fashion show? What does that look like?
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  Speaker 4: I know as soon as we finish.
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  Speaker 3: Planning, absolutely, yes, it's It's a huge event. There are
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  Speaker 3: so many elements, people coming from different part parts of
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  Speaker 3: the world, not only the designers, but also the people
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  Speaker 3: that comes with them, Dresses flying from one city to another,
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  Speaker 3: from one country to another, models coming from one place
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  Speaker 3: to another.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it's just so complex.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously we wouldn't be able to do this on
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  Speaker 3: our just by ourselves, so we need also to get
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  Speaker 3: help from sponsors. So we have a whole team of
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  Speaker 3: people that trust in this project because you know, like
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  Speaker 3: you said, it's glamor so it's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Who doesn't want to leave that, at least for a night.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just like envisioning the planning board. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: of like all of the components working simultaneously.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't tell your pen it's definitely worse than
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  Speaker 3: my numerality chart.
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  Speaker 2: I love this and I'm here for it. I'm so
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  Speaker 2: here for it. Well, what's cool is that this season
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  Speaker 2: Berkeley College students will be joining you and your team
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  Speaker 2: volunteering for this fashion show. So why is it so
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  Speaker 2: important for you to open doors for those to come after.
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  Speaker 4: Well, imagine, look at my face.
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  Speaker 2: You can see that from my frind now it brightens
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  Speaker 2: up when we spoke about the students.
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  Speaker 4: I love young people.
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  Speaker 3: I am a firm believer that any industry needs young
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  Speaker 3: people to drive because they are the new, They're the now.
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  Speaker 4: They're the ones that have all the new ideas. What's popping?
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  Speaker 4: You have to ask them. It won't come from me,
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  Speaker 4: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But aside from that, I think it's it's really amazing
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  Speaker 3: that they get to have hands one on one experience
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  Speaker 3: with the designers and the entire production team, that they
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  Speaker 3: get to see the reality that is not all glamour.
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  Speaker 3: That yes, from the sketch to the stage, there's a
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  Speaker 3: huge gestation period in where a lot of things need
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  Speaker 3: to align, a lot of things need to come in time,
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  Speaker 3: things need to move. Like I said, try not to
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  Speaker 3: build up that much resistant to make it a reality.
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  Speaker 3: And for them to experience experience the feedings and also
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  Speaker 3: the nerves from the design, it becomes.
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  Speaker 4: More real for them.
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  Speaker 3: It gives them a serious staple in what reality after
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  Speaker 3: their dream is behind.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, you know, that's gonna be the name
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  Speaker 2: of this episode. From sketch to stage. That was very catchy. Now, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's been fun the past couple of New York Fashion
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  Speaker 2: Weeks to see our students integrate. We have the designer
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  Speaker 2: residence program and we're with our third designer now and
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  Speaker 2: it's so nice to see them light up as they
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  Speaker 2: see the different functionalities and logistics and shadow different segments.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really cool to see that experiential learning take place.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, I think that creativity is the part that
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  Speaker 3: likes all ideas and visions, right, So if they get
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  Speaker 3: to experience that face to face and alive, it starts
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  Speaker 3: building on them. So I mean, they are the ones
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  Speaker 3: that are gonna tell us tomorrow what are going we
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  Speaker 3: are going to experience in those fashion shows that they
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  Speaker 3: will create when they come in into the field, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So it's really really amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It brings me, you know, like my heart opened for
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  Speaker 3: them to experience this, and I really hope that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them join us.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get a lot of their input? Do you
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  Speaker 1: ask a lot of their opinions and input on things?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, from the time that they are in the mix
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  Speaker 3: in the day, and also a follow up after, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I think feedback, especially respecting everybody points of view
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  Speaker 3: and opinions, it always gives you more and it makes
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  Speaker 3: you richer.
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  Speaker 4: So yes, we follow up with them. A lot of
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  Speaker 4: the times.
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  Speaker 3: We've worked with other colleges in the past and we
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  Speaker 3: have a really good feedback from them and they always
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  Speaker 3: want to come back. So that tells us that we're
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  Speaker 3: doing something good.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of talent acquisition, what are the qualities that
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  Speaker 2: you look for when hiring.
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  Speaker 3: You mean for hiring or for volunteers. Yeah, for hiring, well,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, try to get things done. Be as
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  Speaker 3: a problem solver rather than one that creates problems.
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  Speaker 1: Just eliminate it.
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  Speaker 3: Bro It seems like you're gonna get into deep waters here,
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  Speaker 3: you know when the cameras go.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet are on.
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  Speaker 4: But really it's just more about the desire and the
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  Speaker 4: eager to drive.
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  Speaker 3: I remember back in the past, before we even started
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  Speaker 3: the first fashion show, Adriana and I we sat down
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  Speaker 3: and when she had that idea it looked really crazy.
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  Speaker 3: She was like, let's do our fashion show. When I
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  Speaker 3: was like, okay, that's a lot coming and she was
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  Speaker 3: telling me, you know what, this is how I do
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  Speaker 3: do my plans, I start backwards. So the first thing
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  Speaker 3: I do is I sit down and I imagine exactly
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  Speaker 3: to the detail, how I really envisioned how things are
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  Speaker 3: going to come, and me sitting down next to you
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  Speaker 3: opening a bottle of champagne celebrating that we had a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful time and the experience was amazing. And from there
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  Speaker 3: I started building the dots going back and all that.
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  Speaker 3: I think it really is so profound if you take
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  Speaker 3: a minute and take it in, it teaches us a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things. She really taught me a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things in my personal life. And also aside from this production,
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  Speaker 3: we you know, I have other businesses. So it really
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  Speaker 3: was really profound that message.
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  Speaker 1: So that's awesome. Yeah, and you've heard, I mean, you
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: see it a lot because you can envision something right,
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  Speaker 1: like an outcome of where you want to be in
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: life or where you want to be in your career,
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  Speaker 1: and you could write it on a vision board and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you could do all that kind of stuff, right. But
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: then after you write the ultimate end goal right of
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  Speaker 1: where you want to be, then the next step is
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  Speaker 1: to okay, now let me backtrack. Why I have to
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  Speaker 1: do to get to hear right. So sometimes writing or
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  Speaker 1: creating or envisioning the outcome is great and then coming
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  Speaker 1: up with the plan on how to get there.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I use a Smarkle approach to almost everything. So do
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  Speaker 2: you use it?
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  Speaker 4: Of course?
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  Speaker 3: That means if you aproach, yes, if you don't, If
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  Speaker 3: you don't have if you don't set your goals, you
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  Speaker 3: don't know where you're going. You really need to have
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  Speaker 3: a goal to know where to move, otherwise the universe
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  Speaker 3: will move you its own way.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And for those of you at home, let's
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: teach you something. So smartles S is for specific, M
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  Speaker 2: is for measurable, A is for attainable, and T is
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: for time bound. And you can apply this to everything.
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  Speaker 2: Pro wanted to lose thirty pounds. He made a goal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over here thinking smart goal was like an appla.
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  Speaker 2: Pro does not know what's popping in fashion or the
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  Speaker 2: market because he refers to social media as the Internet
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  Speaker 2: YouTube Smart goals later, ladies and gentlemen. So in true
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: teach me something podcast Fashion, we close with a nice question,
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  Speaker 2: no pressure, but I what's coming? In one word, if
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  Speaker 2: you could articulate which you would want your legacy to be.
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  Speaker 4: What would that word be inclusion?
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  Speaker 1: She was ready.
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  Speaker 2: That is the fastest response.
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  Speaker 1: Was already had inclusion.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like it, And nobody's ever used that one.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's a new word.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, definitely is. My life has been an example of that.
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  Speaker 3: I am a Latina Mexican five four that came to
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  Speaker 3: New York when I was eighteen years old. And I
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  Speaker 3: reach where I am, but I still dream and I
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: want to reach a lot much higher. And I have
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: my family, so I want my kids to be able
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: to see me and you know, be proud of mama
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  Speaker 3: and know that they can make whatever they want with
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  Speaker 3: their lives. And I think that the key is inclusion,
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  Speaker 3: bringing everyone together, making a beautiful mix because we're all different.
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  Speaker 3: So whatever you don't have, someone else is gonna have.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what makes us, you know, a team, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what makes us beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just you know, we're coming off a weekend where
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: we had Cardi b on essenl Bad Bunny, Benito Bowl
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  Speaker 2: is coming off and we're just all very inclusive and
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: emotional Latinos right and representing our communities. And you know
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: what Benito said it and you know, love is powerful.
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  Speaker 2: So love inclusivity, beaute.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I love this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh drop your socials? Where can they find you? How
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: can those volunteer for your organization?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: So if they go to our Instagram, I think it
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: will be the fastest way to get linked. If they
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  Speaker 3: go to nyf W Underscore am and they are gonna
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  Speaker 3: find there the clicks either to purchase tickets or to
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  Speaker 3: apply for volunteer or anything like that. That's the fastest
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  Speaker 3: way to find us. Or they can always DM us.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. And when it's the show February fifteenth, Oh,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: in Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: It is a Sunday at Valentine.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So we're closing the fashion week and we're doing
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: it at the Angel Orients's Foundation by the Lancey Street
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  Speaker 3: something like that. I think everybody knows.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Do you know that spot?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: It's like an old church, so it has this beautiful
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: background that looks amazing with the dresses and the pictures
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  Speaker 3: and the press go wild with those pictures, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I love it amazing. Well, we're gonna stop by
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  Speaker 2: definitely and try on all of the jewelry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just a jewelry.
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  Speaker 3: I'll make sure that if it's only going to be
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  Speaker 3: the jewelry pro. I'll get you a big one.
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  Speaker 1: I like it all right, love it well.
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