Maurice Malone on 35 Years of Excellence in Fashion & Denim Design

This talk with iconic denim designer and businessman Maurice Malone feels like a fashion industry Masterclass but in the form of a great conversation.

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Today, as the owner and designer of the Brooklyn based manufacturer, retailer and denim brand Williamsburg Garment Company (WGC), designer Maurice Malone is recognized in the denim industry as one of the top denim designers in the world. He has been called the “Steve Jobs of Denim” by Brooklyn Magazine, also, featured as a creative thought leader for Fast Company’s The Rise, Fall, And Rise Of The “Steve Jobs Of Denim” and Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s “21 People Besides Kanye Who Are Just Like Steve Jobs.”  Like Steve Jobs, with WGC Maurice has been a different thinker, believing in simplifying a product to enhance it and not being content following the traditional routes of proven business models is why Williamsburg Garment Company has been so successful. —> Read More

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Part 1 – Show Notes

1. Relaunching Maurice Malone Brand
2. Williamsburg Garment Company
3. Started with $1600
4. Took MOJEANS brand off the market in 2001
5. Relaunched it 2006
6. The last Maurice Malone collection was 2005/6 just before the relaunched the MOJEANS Black Label, which ended about 2007/2008
7. Celebrity brands
8. MTV started blurring logos
9. From Detroit
10. Moved to New York in ‘89
11. Big fish in a little pond
12. Doing parties and fashion shows
13. Started making clothes from himself then for friends
14. Started out doing hats
15. Wanted to be a special effects artist
16. Fashion Institute of Technology Museum
17. Maurice attended FIT
18. Just Got Lucky by Joe Boxers
19. Wanted to make jeans but didn’t know how to make a fly
20. Started buying machines
21. Hudson’s
22. Willi Smith of Willi Wear
23. School Daze
24. Black Designers
25. Patrick Kelly
26. Karl Kani
27. Calvin Klein
28. Jean Paul Gaultier
29. Dressing to work
30. Staple of the Detroit Hat
31. Polo by Ralph Lauren
32. Finding good help
33. New Yorkers talk fast
34. You from the country?
35. Detroit accent 
36. Derrick May
37. MK
38. Immersed in Hip Hop
39. Kid Capri DJing
40. KRS-One
41. Transitioning from tight clothes wearing baggy clothes
42. Became a NYC bike messenger 
43. Clinton Hill is full of creatives
44. Junkprints
45. Strict diet
46. Eat to Live
47. Designing at night
48. Drawing on the floor
49. Cross Colours 
50. Will Smith
51. The Hip Hop Shop
52. Giving away clothing
53. Provocative advertising 
54. This is what we do, fuck you
55. Abducted by aliens
56. Ups and Downs
57. Don’t let nothing stop you
58. WGC Pillars 
59. Paper Denim and Cloth
60. Meeting with Barney’s 
61. Doing branded unbranded denim
62. One man company 
63. Manufacturing aging in denim
64. You know you’re doing something right when you’re doing stuff before people understand it
65. Thinking faster, simpler 
66. Pure Playaz
67. Everything happens for a reason 
68. Selling clothes like hot cakes 
69. Merry-Go-Round 
70. DJ Clue Tapes
71. Proof worked at the Hip Hop Shop
72. My momma don’t want no hip hop on her block

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