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The Latest On The Scene: Usher Receives The Virgil Abloh Award From Harlem’s Fashion Row, During Newyork Fashion Week! · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 1: and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
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Speaker 1: what's up? Is Laura l Rosa and this is the
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Speaker 1: Latest with Laura l Rosa. This is your daily dig
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Speaker 1: on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of
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Speaker 1: the conversations that shake the room. Now we this episode
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Speaker 1: is a it's a bit different. It is fashion Week.
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Speaker 1: So in the last episode I was able to take
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Speaker 1: you guys outside, and you know, the Latest is always
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Speaker 1: what's happening. We're in now, We're on the go sometimes
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Speaker 1: when we're not in the Latest with Laura l Rosa
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Speaker 1: the podcast studio, because I like to keep you guys
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Speaker 1: up beating on the street with me as I'm maneuver
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Speaker 1: throughout so many different aspects of pop culture. So we
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Speaker 1: were at Delaware State University where I was honored to
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Speaker 1: speak as the keynote speaker during the convocation ceremony at
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Speaker 1: my HBCU, my alma mater, and directly after we left there,
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Speaker 1: we headed back to New York City to get into
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Speaker 1: some fashion Week things. Now, I was honored to be
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Speaker 1: an invited guest in an attendee of Harlem Fashion Roles
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Speaker 1: eighteenth annual Fashion Show and Style Awards. Now, Harlem Fashion
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Speaker 1: Row is an organization that has been around for some time.
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Speaker 1: They were founded in two thousand and seven and they
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Speaker 1: know when they were created and even now like the
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Speaker 1: platform has grown so much, they were created to become
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Speaker 1: and have become the premier platform dedicated to discovering, showcasing
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Speaker 1: and supporting designers of color. Now they have a proven
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Speaker 1: track record of driving culture shift and collaboration with brands
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Speaker 1: like Nike, Gap, nor Strom, Tommy Hill Figure. But most importantly,
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Speaker 1: what I know them for and what I love about
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Speaker 1: them and what I've always on them for for some
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Speaker 1: time is that Harlem's Fashion Row creates community in space.
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Speaker 1: So yes, they're able to bridge the gap with these
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Speaker 1: brands and these sponsors, and they helped so many black
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Speaker 1: designers who are emerging out of HBCUs, which is a
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Speaker 1: conversation of its own, because there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: fashion professionals who are overlooked because they come from non
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Speaker 1: traditional fashion schools which are hbcused. But Harlem's Fashion Role
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Speaker 1: is doing things like going into HBCUs and providing designers
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Speaker 1: and students with funding, making sure they get platform, making
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Speaker 1: sure they get internships that put them in the fashion
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Speaker 1: spaces and rooms and conversations they need to be in
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Speaker 1: to have everything they need to be able to go
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Speaker 1: out and dominate the world. But also they just create space.
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Speaker 1: One of my biggest things about New York and the
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Speaker 1: fashion world here, in the coature world here of fashion
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Speaker 1: was the fact that you either got a hard yes
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Speaker 1: or you got a hard no. I wanted to, you know,
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Speaker 1: model work in couture fashion, and what I began to
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Speaker 1: learn is that it really was a club of who's chosen,
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Speaker 1: who selected, and once you're not, you're not. And for
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Speaker 1: the most part, that was not models of color, that
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Speaker 1: was not designers of color, that was not creatives of color.
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Speaker 1: When I found out about Harlem's Fashion Row, I was
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Speaker 1: actually in LA and there was an event that they
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Speaker 1: were having, and there were so many black faces and
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Speaker 1: high Hollywood that were being advertised that we're supposed to
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Speaker 1: be at this event. And I was still trying to
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Speaker 1: find culture and community there. When I moved there, I
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Speaker 1: used to be like, where are the people? Where are
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Speaker 1: we at? So I came across this event. I didn't
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Speaker 1: really know much about the brand, and I went and
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Speaker 1: I remember and she will not remember this, but I
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Speaker 1: remember meeting Brandis, who is the owner and creator of
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Speaker 1: Harlem's Fashion role at this event. Now full circle moment
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Speaker 1: for me, right, because now I'm here, I'm in New York,
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Speaker 1: We're doing the fashion week things, and like I said,
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Speaker 1: I like to take you guys into the latest, into
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Speaker 1: what's happening. So as we go into the night at
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Speaker 1: Harlem's Fashion Row, what I'm beginning to learn is that
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Speaker 1: not only has the brand grown in all this time, right,
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Speaker 1: but I'm also seeing that the people who were supporting
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Speaker 1: the brand from the beginning are still there supporting it.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the celebrities, a lot of you know,
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Speaker 1: the editorial outlets, the designers, which is amazing to see.
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Speaker 1: I think one of the hardest things in building is
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Speaker 1: to retain, is to retain support both financially but also
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Speaker 1: just community wise. And I keep using that word community
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Speaker 1: because it is very import and when you're figuring something
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Speaker 1: out to have those people to be able to fellowship with,
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Speaker 1: to poor resources from, or be that for somebody else.
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Speaker 1: So in this event, you know, the ceremony was set up,
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Speaker 1: we sat down, we had dinner. I ran into Cary Holston,
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Speaker 1: who I met when we did BET Talks, which was
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Speaker 1: I do sometimes I do these sit downs with BT.
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Speaker 1: I met Carroy Hoilson during BET Talks and also she
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Speaker 1: came on the Breakfast Club. So carry Holston was there.
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Speaker 1: You also had Slick Rick in attendance. You had Dapperdan,
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Speaker 1: who is a New York fashion legend period. I also
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Speaker 1: ran into Melissa Butler from the Lip Bar. Sherry Shepherd
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Speaker 1: was there as well. Tons of celebrities in the room.
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Speaker 1: Now opening up the night, Brandis got on the mic
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Speaker 1: and kind of explained a bit about, you know, why
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Speaker 1: the evening was important, why the event in the community
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Speaker 1: that she has built through the organization was important, and
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Speaker 1: when they started in two thousand and seven with their
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Speaker 1: mission being to you know, bridge those gaps and like
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Speaker 1: I talked about, become the community for people here in
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Speaker 1: New York and elsewhere who need it. One of the
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Speaker 1: things that I I've always admired about Harlem's Fashion Row
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Speaker 1: is the fact that they're able to once this you know,
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Speaker 1: community was built, they are able to bring people together
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Speaker 1: to then showcase others. So designers, we heard from editorial professionals,
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Speaker 1: last night who were being spotlighted. We heard more about
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Speaker 1: the college work that Harlem's fashion role is doing. We
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Speaker 1: also heard from college students are graduates who are now
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Speaker 1: interning and working and being able to get out there
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Speaker 1: and do the work as well. But the biggest thing
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Speaker 1: of the night for sure, Usher Usher was presented with
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Speaker 1: the Virgil Ablow war which is also amazing because Harlem's
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Speaker 1: Fashion role actually honored Virgil when he was alive. For
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Speaker 1: those of you guys who may not know any of
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Speaker 1: our listeners who may not know, Virgil Ablow, huge streetwear designer,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he is known as one of the
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Speaker 1: people who defied the odds when it came to being
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Speaker 1: a black designer incature fashion, but extremely and especially in streetwear.
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Speaker 1: He went from you know, designing streetwear to becoming creative
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Speaker 1: director of Beuievaton and you know, just breaking a lot
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Speaker 1: of first but also just being a face in fashion
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Speaker 1: and a force and fashion that people could look to.
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Speaker 1: So with Usher receiving this award, it definitely gives a
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Speaker 1: nod to what Usher has become, you know, in his
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Speaker 1: industry and has been in this industry, and just giving
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Speaker 1: him his flowers and making it feel good. Let's listen
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Speaker 1: to Usher.
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Speaker 2: So y'all started to right in ushu are yam o.
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Speaker 1: And d and so maybe tell maybe what she wanted
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Speaker 1: to do.
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Speaker 2: I talked about that today's she's seventeen year old, right
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Speaker 2: who just needed to believe that.
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Speaker 3: I found another common connection between me and Virgil Faiful
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Speaker 3: found versus me and left. He said, the world produces waves,
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Speaker 3: surf drown.
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Speaker 2: You decide everything that you do. It's for a seventeen
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Speaker 2: year old version self. That seventeen year old version of
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Speaker 2: myself is the same thing that encourages me to this
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Speaker 2: day to make me fearless.
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Speaker 1: And I would not be here without him.
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Speaker 2: So I thank you, young the Usher at seventeen years
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Speaker 2: old for being bold as you were. You know we're
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Speaker 2: taking to be humble, but I say, we need to
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Speaker 2: give ourselves my praise.
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Speaker 3: We need to make certain let be known that it's
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Speaker 3: okay to be proud of what you do.
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Speaker 1: It's not cocky, it's not conceited. It's confidence, and that's
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Speaker 1: the way that it should be.
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Speaker 2: You should encourage yourself.
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Speaker 1: Don't wait for the applause.
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Speaker 3: If you she said, live for the applause, you die
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Speaker 3: by the boots literally.
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Speaker 2: But.
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Speaker 3: I thank you guys so much, and I hope that
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Speaker 3: next year the recipient doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Take as long as I thank you.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell y'all something too. I think, you
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Speaker 1: know the more that I'm you know, in and out
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Speaker 1: of these events and I'm seeing people, you know, receive
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Speaker 1: these awards, and you know, just seeing people take time
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Speaker 1: for others who deserve it because they're working so hard
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Speaker 1: to make sure we can be able to do. So
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Speaker 1: what I'm beginning to understand a bit more is you
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Speaker 1: ever heard celebrities be like I don't need my flowers,
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Speaker 1: Like I know what I've done here. I look at
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Speaker 1: a person like Usher who has been synonymous across because
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Speaker 1: I don't think people understand it. He's been synonymous across fashion,
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Speaker 1: across the skate world, across music, across hip hop, even
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Speaker 1: though he's an R and B artist, but just across
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Speaker 1: culture in general, and also has giving us some of
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Speaker 1: the best music and artists that we know. Justin Bieber
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Speaker 1: comes from under the wing of Usher. So as I'm
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Speaker 1: watching Usher maneuver the event last night and receive the
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Speaker 1: award and you know, do so so humbly and speak
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Speaker 1: of his beginnings and where he comes from. I'm sitting there, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, I really, really, really truly believe that the
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Speaker 1: people that come from the era that like an Usher
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Speaker 1: comes from, they're not really for all the accolades and
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Speaker 1: you know, for things to be loud, I mean, and
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Speaker 1: they're gonna come up here, They're gonna you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, receive their awards and all those things as
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Speaker 1: they come. There's just something different about the era of
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Speaker 1: celebrity when it comes to generations that are not mine.
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Speaker 1: And I was watching that last night, even seeing slick Rick,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the audience, and as you know, the
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Speaker 1: audience is breaking for people to maneuver from the downstairs
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Speaker 1: award reception to the upstairs like an after cocktail reception.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't even walk through the crowd without people stopping him,
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Speaker 1: like at all. But these are people that are that
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Speaker 1: you're not You're not hearing them screen what they need,
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Speaker 1: what they should be getting, what they should be awarded
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Speaker 1: every day. They're just really doing the work, doing what
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Speaker 1: they love and doing it at a like a high level.
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Speaker 1: At that when you think of a slick Rick and
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Speaker 1: his his his ability and his impact, when you think
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Speaker 1: and again across music and fashion. When you think of
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Speaker 1: an Usher, when you think of a Ruthie Carter, all
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Speaker 1: of these people just set out to do something really
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Speaker 1: really well and did it well enough where other or
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Speaker 1: are able to come behind them and be able to
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Speaker 1: do it, but also do it in a way that influences.
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Speaker 1: Like Usher has influenced style, slick Rick has influenced generations
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Speaker 1: of style. We then got to hear from Ruthie Carter.
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Speaker 1: And Ruthie Carter if you guys do not know, she's
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Speaker 1: a costume designer. A costume designer for those who don't
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Speaker 1: understand what that term it is, because I know I
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Speaker 1: have to be in a lot of fashion today. A
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Speaker 1: costume designer somebody who dresses people enrolled, so whether it's movies, television,
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Speaker 1: anything on camera per se. So it's basically a stylist
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Speaker 1: for television and film. But they tell stories through it.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of times things are set in certain
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Speaker 1: time periods, they are set in certain locations or you
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Speaker 1: know geographically. You know, clothing is telling a story. So
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Speaker 1: to be a costume designer is a very very it's
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Speaker 1: a very very detailed oriented job and you really have
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Speaker 1: to understand how to tell story without even opening up
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Speaker 1: your mouth because you don't see or hear from the stylists.
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Speaker 1: And Ruthie Carter also comes from that era. And I
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Speaker 1: was watching and listening to her receive her award, and
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Speaker 1: my thought was the way that the stylists and a
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Speaker 1: lot of the behind the scenes creatives are set up
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Speaker 1: today in our time because of social media. And don't
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, it's nothing wrong with it, because I
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Speaker 1: understand how social media's a vehicle and drops people's business
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Speaker 1: and businesses some people put their bills. But she comes
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Speaker 1: from an era of stylists. And I looked around. I
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Speaker 1: see Dapperdin and you know all these og stylists and
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Speaker 1: the family of an Lowe who was you know, one
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Speaker 1: of the designers who like addressed Jackie Kennedy for her
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Speaker 1: wedding to John F. Kennedy. So Ruthy Carter is receiving
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Speaker 1: the and Low Maverick Award. Hello everyone.
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Speaker 4: I wanted to thank Grandastaniel and Problems Fashion.
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Speaker 2: Roll for this tree.
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Speaker 4: Then dissolment to be the very first recipient of the
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Speaker 4: m low Magwar. Wow, it's true. He gets some chills
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Speaker 4: just to say so tonight, I accept this war in
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Speaker 4: the name of Ana and in honor of every designer,
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Speaker 4: of tailor and creatives who stitched beauty into the world
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Speaker 4: even when the doors were closed.
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Speaker 1: And I'm looking at all of the generations of fashion
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Speaker 1: and design and culture and influence in the room, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, the craziest thing is that we
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Speaker 1: went from an era of people just being not happy
12:32
Speaker 1: to be anywhere, because that's not the right term. These
12:34
Speaker 1: people were. These people were so vigilant they weren't happy
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Speaker 1: to be anywhere. They were busting down doors that were
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Speaker 1: being shut in their face and coming in with their
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Speaker 1: own tables, making things from scratch with their bare hands,
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Speaker 1: creating ideas without phones, without TikTok, without anything. The level
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Speaker 1: and the depth of talent and the generations prior to us, Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't think that we really understand, you know, what
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Speaker 1: that takes to be able to conceptualize an idea without
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Speaker 1: being able to pick up your phone and put it together,
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Speaker 1: put together a move board on goo Ai. It's just
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Speaker 1: very different. And I'm not knocking, you know, the artist
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Speaker 1: and the creators of this generation, because I consider myself
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Speaker 1: one of them. But last night was a good reminder
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Speaker 1: that before anything before you're posting to Instagram, before you're
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Speaker 1: cracking a mic, before you are putting something on the runway,
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Speaker 1: before you are getting on skates, before you're getting on
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Speaker 1: the stage, and just anything that you do before you
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Speaker 1: do it, to really understand your purpose behind it, your
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Speaker 1: intention behind it, and to really hone your talent. I
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Speaker 1: went to go see Usher in Vegas. It was one
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Speaker 1: of the best shows I've ever seen in my life.
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Speaker 1: If you've watched Wakanda, you understand Ruth ey Carter being
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Speaker 1: magngnificent and being one of the greats. If you know
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Speaker 1: anything about anlo Maverick and you know everything she went
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Speaker 1: through just to be able to work and do what
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Speaker 1: she loved, and her timeless pieces that she crafted by hand,
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Speaker 1: you understand workmanship, work ethic Before all of the highlight reels,
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Speaker 1: and you know, all the celebrations and all of the
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Speaker 1: cheers and all of the you know, like us people scream.
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Speaker 1: You know, I want to get my flowers while I
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Speaker 1: can smell them. Whether you're getting your flowers while you
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Speaker 1: can smell them or not, I want to make sure
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Speaker 1: I'm getting my flowers for something that I've done that
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Speaker 1: has substance in life and legacy, because that's real impact.
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Speaker 1: Like Usher is real, He's not just a music artist.
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Speaker 1: He is real impact. Ruth Ee Carter is real impact.
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Speaker 1: Slick Rick wasn't even honor last night, but you just
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Speaker 1: felt regal being in the room with him, Dapperdon. You
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Speaker 1: felt regal being in his presence, and that's what I'm
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Speaker 1: meaning for. So this was a great way to kick
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Speaker 1: off my first night of New York Fashion Week. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm here for all things black and all
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Speaker 1: things us anyway, But yes, that was amazing kickoff to it.
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Speaker 1: And we also got to watch you know, they had
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Speaker 1: several designers that they showcase last night as well. Oh
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Speaker 1: and I partner with foot Locker. Yes, I partner with
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Speaker 1: foot Locker. How would I forget that? That was pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: I partnered with foot Locker. We had to go to
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Speaker 1: foot Locker. You are to choose sneakers. You had to
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Speaker 1: wear one of the sneakers to the event. I wore
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Speaker 1: a two piece set by a black designer. Her name
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Speaker 1: is Megan Renee. Shout out to her as well. But
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Speaker 1: they were kind of like my even know, I wasn't
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Speaker 1: with anyone from foot Locker, but my sneakers were kind
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Speaker 1: of like my date of the evening, so that was
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Speaker 1: pretty cool as well. To you guys can go and
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Speaker 1: check out you know, all the social media footage. We
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Speaker 1: did a lot of behind the scene footage leading up
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Speaker 1: to the fashion show, and I did a full recap
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Speaker 1: of the fashion show visually over on my YouTube as well,
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Speaker 1: which doesn't include any of the stuff that you guys
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Speaker 1: just heard here for the most part, So this is
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Speaker 1: an audio exclusive. But if you want to go and
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Speaker 1: check out you know, my outfit and just some of
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Speaker 1: the fun, you can head on over to my socials
15:43
Speaker 1: Lauren the Roads at l O r A N l
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Speaker 1: o r o s A to do so as well.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, there is always a
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about, a lot to do, and you
15:54
Speaker 1: guys could be anywhere with anybody, but you choose to
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Speaker 1: be right here with me every episode, and I appreciate
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Speaker 1: you for I will see you guys in my next episode.
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Speaker 1: Now it is still fashion week, so i'ma I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: take y'all outside a little bit more a few more
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Speaker 1: times this week, but we'll get our traditional episodes in
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Speaker 1: this week as well too. But let me know how
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Speaker 1: you're feeling here, you know. Are you guys in New
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Speaker 1: York for fashion Week? Where are you attending? Where are
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Speaker 1: you going to? All right, y'all, I'm gonna take y'all
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Speaker 1: outside in the streets. We leaving The tweets were heading
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Speaker 1: outside in the streets. It's the latest with Lauren de Rosa.
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Speaker 1: It's New York Fashion Week.