In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) talks to Emmy Award Winning Costume Designer Janie Bryant (Mad Men, Deadwood, Why Women Kill), a new part-owner of Inherent Clothier. They discuss Janie’s background in costume design for film and TV and how she discovered her passion for menswear. Janie also shares her views on contemporary menswear, cultivating confidence in yourself, and more. They even share some details on their upcoming collection, which Janie and Taylor designed together! Be sure to follow Inherent Clothier on instagram to see this collection come to life.
3 Key Points
- Money isn’t required to take pride in your appearance.
- Modern menswear is focused on versatility and the ability to mix-and-match pieces.
- Confidence is important in following your passions, but sometimes it only comes once you start.
Episode Highlights:
- Janie is now a part owner of Inherent Clothier, and she has wanted to design a menswear collection for years.
- As a costume designer on shows like Mad Men, Janie has seen firsthand how men realize the impact a well-fitted suit can have on their confidence.
- You can take pride in your appearance no matter how much money you have.
- You can turn a suit into a more casual, everyday look by wearing a t-shirt under the jacket or pairing a sport coat with jeans.
- Janie believes menswear badly needed an update in the way Inherent Clothier is making it modern.
- To Janie, a modern interpretation of formalwear is the flexibility to wear a dinner jacket with jeans, and to otherwise mix and match.
- The Bryan Draper Capsule Collection will include formalwear, shirts, all-season suits, and you'll be able to mix and match all the pieces.
- Janie studied fashion design in college and moved to France when she graduated with the dream of becoming a famous fashion designer.
- Once she moved to New York, she ended up in social circles with a lot of film people and learned about costume design.
- Janie was working on a music video and the director told her to believe in her choices and to believe in herself; she hadn’t even realized she was doubting herself, but that advice has stuck with her.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “There’s so many combinations, and you can really turn the suit into something that used to be, in older generations, a formal thing, into just an everyday, casual thing.” –Janie Bryant
- “I truly believe that enlightenment and joyfulness is optimal to live a great life. So how do you get to that place? You get to that place through great mental health.” –Janie Bryant
- “Being yourself and having confidence and faith in yourself is the most magical thing you can do.” –Janie Bryant
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