Layers – Details, episodes & analysis

This episode’s theme is Acceptance, and Ana and Stevie are joined from LA by guest producer Kara Hart. She meets the founders of fashion label Universal Standard to discuss what Rihanna once described as “the pleasures of a fluctuating body”. Plus, some thoughts on dungarees, unlearning, and whether Stevie is allowed to shop in Massimo Dutti yet.

Kara Hart is an audio producer in Los Angeles. You can learn more at https://karahart.info/

Universal Standard is available online https://www.universalstandard.com/collections/new

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Production by Lucy Dearlove.

Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Kevin MacLeod - Acid Jazz, Kevin MacLeod - Hard Boiled, Aaron Liebermann - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

Ana and Stevie contemplate handsomeness when it comes to getting dressed. It's a word so often associated with conventionally good-looking men, but why should it be? Together with two special guests, they consider handsomeness as a descriptor to be claimed regardless of where one is on the gender spectrum.

Georgeous Michael talks us through transformational accoutrements, while Dazed Fashion Editor Emma Hope Allwood contemplates Le Smoking and handsome women in art. 

An array of voices discuss their favourite season for dressing in, and there's also talk of ascribing certain items of clothing as 'masculine' or 'feminine'. Do we still need to do that in 2019? Stevie and Ana try to figure it all out. 

You can follow Emma Hope Allwood on Twitter @emmahopeall

Georgeous Michael is on Instagram at @georgeousmichael

Layers is produced by Lucy Dearlove https://lucydearlove.com/

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Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Kevin MacLeod - Aurea Carmina, Kevin MacLeod - Hard Boiled, Aaron Liebermann - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

In Episode 3, Ana Kinsella and Stevie Mackenzie-Smith discuss movement. Novelist Sharlene Teo tells us about moving from Singapore to the UK, and we talk about dressing for the dancefloor with curator Tory Turk. Foreign correspondent Sally Hayden shares how she packs for overseas assignments. Our latest instalment of Loved and Lost comes from author Sophie Mackintosh.

Plus, Stevie takes a trip.

Super Sharp is at Fashion Space Gallery until April 21st. Read about it here http://www.fashionspacegallery.com/exhibition/super-sharp/

Find Sally on Twitter https://twitter.com/sallyhayd

Sharlene Teo’s novel Ponti will be published by Picador on April 14th / https://twitter.com/treebirds

Sophie Mackintosh’s novel The Water Cure is out on May 24th / https://twitter.com/fairfairisles

Ana would like to note that Social Dance at the Southbank Centre is not only for the elderly, and you can find all details here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/social-dance#overview

Lucky Cloud Sound System is now in its 14th year and takes place quarterly at the Rose Lipman Building in De Beauvoir Town. Resident Advisor published a long read on its history and philosophy last month https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3123

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Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Blue Dot Sessions - The Shoes They Wear (via Free Music Archive), Blue Dot Sessions - Grand Caravan (via Free Music Archive), Kevin Macleod - Aurea Carmina (via Free Music Archive), Simon Mathewson - Son of Soloman (Garage Remix) (via Free Music Archive), Aaron Lieberman - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

Production by Lucy Dearlove.

In Episode 2, Stevie and Ana talk Encounters. A fleeting glimpse of a stylish stranger while on holiday, an ongoing friendship with the woman who works in the local boutique, or bumping into an enigmatic stranger in a Soho club: often it’s the chance encounters we have that can really influence how we think about clothes.

Stevie makes a new friend, and Naomi Shimada tells us about her solo travels in Argentina. Sophie Davidson talks getting dressed for a memorable blind date. Ann-Maria McCarthy tells us of a vintage friendship, and Ana has a round-table on make-up and growing up with her school friends. Finally, the latest Loved and Lost segment comes from fashion journalist and erstwhile party reporter Osman Ahmed.

The British Red Cross charity shop is on Old Church Street, just off the King’s Road.

You can visit the Sir John Soane-designed St Peter's Church in Walworth. It's at Liverpool Grove, London SE17 2HH.

Ann-Maria Mccarthy is on Instagram at @annmariamccarthy. The wonderful Jenny Vander is at 50 Drury Street in Dublin.

Sophie Davidson runs http://tinyletter.com/womencookforme.

Naomi Shimada is on Instagram at @naomishimada

Osman Ahmed writes for Business of Fashion. 

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Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Blue Dot Sessions - The Shoes They Wear (via Free Music Archive), Jon Rose -Dr Rosenberg's Church Organ Solo (via Free Music Archive), Blue Dot Sessions - The Green Room (via Free Music Archive), FoolBoyMedia - New York Jazz Loop (via freesound.org), Aaron Lieberman - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

Production by Lucy Dearlove.

In Episode 1, Ana Kinsella and Stevie Mackenzie-Smith talk about beginnings. We meet Abigail, who decided to make her own wedding dress for a beginning of her own, and Kate O’Donnell, who built up a wardrobe from scratch when she transitioned. Plus, a diary of those all-important first-day-at-work outfits from Colleen Kelsey in New York, and writer and cook Rebecca May Johnson shares a story of satin trousers for Loved and Lost.

Items: Is Fashion Modern? closes at MoMA this month. Read about it here: https://www.vogue.com/article/moma-items-is-fashion-modern

Stevie also mentions her trip to Sara Berman’s closet, and you can do a video tour of it here, thanks to the New Yorker http://video.newyorker.com/watch/sara-berman-s-closet

Here is an essay about women in fedoras: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/fashion-supplement/fedora/ Ana's hat is really more like a borsalino.

Find Abigail’s work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheRayShop

Follow Kate O’Donnell on Twitter at http://twitter.com/kateodonnellx and find her work at http://www.transcreative.uk

Colleen is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/colleenkelsey/

Rebecca May Johnson shares her food writing at https://dinnerdocument.com/

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Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Kevin MacLeod - Canon In D Major (via YouTube Music Library), Blue Dot Sessions - The Shoes They Wear (via Free Music Archive), FoolBoyMedia - New York Jazz Loop (via freesound.org), Aaron Lieberman - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

Production by Lucy Dearlove.

In this preview episode we discuss GLAMOUR. Ana Kinsella and Stevie Mackenzie-Smith talk to Coline Bach, a celebrity stylist who's worked with Years & Years and Madonna, and dancer Kate Haughton shares memories of ballet and pointe shoes. Writer and poet Rosalind Jana reads a story about a much-loved ring inherited from her aunt Violet.

Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Blue Dot Sessions - The Shoes They Wear (via Free Music Archive), Aaron Lieberman - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

Production: Lucy Dearlove

#style #glamour #fashion

What do you wear to feel powerful? And what do you really wish you could pull off? Four women answer.

LAYERS is a podcast of stories about style, women and how we get dressed.

Co-hosts Stevie Mackenzie-Smith and Ana Kinsella ask "Hey, what are you wearing? Can you tell me about it?" A preview episode on the theme of GLAMOUR launches 04/12/17, Series 1 starts 06/01/18.

Produced by Lucy Dearlove.

In this episode, Stevie Mackenzie-Smith and Ana Kinsella talk about folk and what it means to dress with one eye on where you’re from: Quintessentially British Laura Ashley, so-called ‘sailor pants’ and regional dress. Plus, as always, endless eBay hunts.

And we meet Alannah Eileen, a photographer from Orkney, about the importance of community, rural fashion and what happens to your style when you move to the big city. 

You can see Alannah’s work on her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alannah.eileen/ and her website https://www.alannaheileen.com. Find out more about Teran at http://teran.community

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Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Kevin MacLeod - Hard Boiled, Aaron Liebermann - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

Produced by Lucy Dearlove

In this episode, Ana and Stevie are mulling over BOYISH dressing. Ana pays a visit to see Claire Marie Healy, Deputy Editor at Dazed & Confused, who shares the charm of her thrifted synthetic zip-up top, which makes her feel like an extra from Freaks and Geeks. There's also talk of clothes on film, feeling obliged to strive for femininity, and dressing your age (whatever that means).

Oh, and Stevie has had a personal style-related crisis after getting her clothes out of her storage unit. Great!

You can follow Claire Healy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clairehly

Layers is produced by Lucy Dearlove https://lucydearlove.com/

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Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Kevin MacLeod - Hard Boiled, Aaron Liebermann - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)

In this episode, we consider the theme of ENDURING. What is it about certain items of clothes that make us return to them over and over? And what about when there are limits on how many clothes we can own? What makes the cut and stays in your life, and what doesn't?

Sirena Bergman, a London-based journalist talks to Stevie about how living on a houseboat means coming up with ingenious space-related solutions. And Francis McKee, a writer, curator and lecturer who lives in Glasgow tells us about the democracy of clothing via a self-imposed uniform he has worn since 1978…

You can find Sirena Bergman's writing monthly missives on dressing sustainably by signing up to her newsletter, Sartorially Happy: https://tinyletter.com/sartoriallyhappy

You can follow Francis McKee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/francismckee

Layers is produced by Lucy Dearlove https://lucydearlove.com/

Follow Layers on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/layers.podcast/

Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Kevin MacLeod - Hard Boiled, Aaron Liebermann - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)