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

by New York Said Podcast
November 19, 2020
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This talk with iconic denim designer and businessman Maurice Malone feels like a fashion industry Masterclass but in the form of a great conversation.


In this two part episode we cover the good, the bad and the ugly of navigating the worlds of fashion and denim design.

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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

 

Williamsburg Garment Company

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