Rain Check – Details, episodes & analysis

Cole, John and Kobe recap their recent trip to Toronto and review their recent cops. 

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Cole, John and Kobe do a patented jpg review and critique Acronym’s first FW23 release and Veilance F23 (starts at 28:00). They also discuss some other brands and what they’re buying these days.

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Cole, John, and Kobe discuss the direction of Veilance in light of the women’s FW21 collection and the FW21 and SS22 men’s collection.

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Kobe interviews Suhail Sahrawat of Garuda about his background, the past, and future of Garuda, and his thoughts on making made to order clothing. 

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Episode Outline

00:42 Suhail’s background

05:58 Founding Garuda

15:20 Garuda and design discussion

24:50 Plans for 2022 (and 41:15)

52:25 Other things that interest Suhail now (other brands, collaborations?)

John and Kobe are joined by Alex Rakestraw to discuss his background, writing career, and perspective on fashion and the outdoor industry.

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Episode Outline

01:09 Background/getting into clothes

08:28 Becoming a writer and finding a niche

13:12 Coatchecking and process of writing reviews

25:50 Fashion archetypes and personas

30:11 Fashion and the outdoor industry now

34:20 Dressing for city life

39:12 Current exciting brands and products

50:57 Justifying jacket purchases (best and worse use cases)

Cole, John, and Kobe discuss the first Arc’Teryx System_A collection, its relationship to Veilance and mainline Arc’Teryx, and their hopes for future collections.

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0:44 System_A Marketing and Rollout

10:30 Impressions of collection/styles

23:15 System_A’s pace among Arc’Teryx lines

31:10 Is Arc’Teryx “North Face-ifying?”

40:29 Ideas for future collections (warning: lots of memes)

John and Kobe are joined by Langton Willms of Gerhard Supply to discuss getting into retail, opening GERHARD, his unique approach to e-commerce, and starting his house brand IN SITU.

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John, Kobe, and Cole exlpore men's Veilance FW21, the Reigning Champ Second String Program and Aritizia buyout, and a leaked video of men’s Veilance SS22.

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Episode Outline

00:25 Reigning Champ Second String Program

14:40 Aritizia and Reigning Champ

25:00 Leaked men’s Veilance SS22 Youtube Video

41:14 Veilance men’s FW21

John and Kobe are joined by Shane Long to discuss his tenure at HAVEN and new brand ADAPTURE. Cole also joins us to introduce the episode and discuss the women’s Veilance SS22 capsule.

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Episode Outline:

01:25 Women’s Veilance SS22 capsule

12:41 Start of interview with Shane Long, getting into clothes and working at Haven

31:45 Starting HAVEN brand

51:31 Founding ADAPTURE and plans for the future

Kobe and John are joined by newly minted co-host Cole to discuss Veilance SS21 after experiencing the new styles. 

*Apologies for the production hiccups, we are working on this!*

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Episode Outline

0:38 Introducing Cole

News

3:05 Women’s Veilance? Dominique Showers video, Screenshot of coat

9:36 Haven SS21 

16:15 Acronym SS21 GR 

Veilance SS21

25:32 Rollout (Bucket Hats?) Lookbook picture with bucket hat

33:05 Marketing Campaign, Pelle Cass

40:08 Production between China and Canada (and Latvia!)

3 Most exciting pieces of SS21

43:00 Cole 

46:49 John Patrick Stangbye

51:30 Kobe

3 Most disappointing pieces

60:10 Cole

63:40 John

68:05 Kobe

Q&A

77:27 What’s a quintessential Veilance piece?

78:16 John 

80:57 Cole

88:45 Kobe

85:56 Veilance collaborations?

86:14 Cole

89:19 Kobe

91:31 John (Kvadrat)

94:52 Credits