Babak Radboy

8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 14, 2022 by Babak Radboy · across every show →

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Feb 14, 2022
Insight
Radboy: Creative workers must build community to alter exploitative environments
“You can't be in a position where you're binding with Your success or your survival to your exploitation. And that's the position that we're put in, in the creative industries in general. Like, we need the platform, we need the budget, we need the distribution.…”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 1:14:08 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Feb 14, 2022
Disclosure
Telfar based signature bag price on DJ earnings, making it initially unprofitable
“That, that was a big part of it, is that Telfar wanted to base the price on how much you would make in a night DJ. And that absolutely didn't square up with how much it cost to make the bag. Like, at all. But it's like the price of the bag was part of the conc…”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 54:00 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Feb 14, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Telfar generated over $1M converting fashion show marketing into revenue
“Like, at some point, we were bringing in over a million dollars just from doing shows, so what you would consider marketing is actually, it wasn't an expense, it was Our income.”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 44:20 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Feb 14, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Telfar was generating only a few thousand dollars monthly through early 2019
“We're still only making like a few thousand dollars a month. Right. Through 2018 and into 2019.”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 55:09 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Feb 14, 2022 negative
Opinion
Radboy: Fashion industry is overwhelmingly white and uses tokenism conditionally
“You're dealing with an all-white industry. Right? And who know it. And you symbolize something specific that's useful up until a point, you know.”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 37:21 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Feb 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Radboy: Vogue and Style.com act as historical gatekeepers of fashion
“You have to understand that when people, you know, you have these institutions like Vogue and Style.com, and they're like the Library of Congress of fashion. So they, their, your entry means that you happened. So when they refuse to even record that you had a …”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 34:54 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Feb 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Radboy: Most fashion brand collaborations are superficial PR stunts with small fees
“Well, think, you know, these things are usually for show. They're for press. It's just, you want a press release saying that happened, and then you get a little check for your design fee.”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 50:17 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Feb 14, 2022 negative
Insight
Fashion overproduction and unoptimized supply chains drive up retail apparel prices
“Overproducing by design, right? Two collections, like, you know, 400 items every six months. Absolutely wasteful. And you end up, when you have to make like that, that's why you are selling a pair of jeans for a thousand dollars, is because you didn't figure o…”
Babak Radboy Feb 14, 2022 ▶ 1:08:29 Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
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