Episode 143- Paul Mittleman (creative director/designer/visionary)

One Life One Chance with Toby Morse

Toby Morse

Music, Onelifeonechancepmatobymorseh2o, Society & Culture

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Toby sits down with visionary Paul Mittleman, they chat him about co-founding brands like Phat Farm and Stüssy, art and photo, born and raised in NYC, skating, became friends with Shawn Stüssy and started working for him, working in Germany for Adidas, Kanye and Pharrell, Converse, the downtown crowd, streetwear, merging cultures, current events, changing of Soho and reminiscing.

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0:00.0	Check welcome to the one life one chance podcast. I'm your host Toby Morris. I have my side kick today once again. Mr Derek Green.
0:07.0	Thank you for having me roof roof. You're doing a super low today doing it low because I heard complaints about my joe Bayhian our snow complaints it's just a when you go ooh
0:15.8	She goes crazy on here and our very special guest. Mr. Paul Middleman.
0:22.3	Thanks for having me. That's a cool name cool that guest Mr Paul Middleman.
0:23.0	That's a cool name, a cool last name.
0:26.0	Middleman.
0:27.0	It's kind of like in New York it's probably not that exotic but it's in English.
0:31.0	I think it's part German.
0:32.0	Is it? I think it's part German is it
0:33.0	I think it's the wrong spelling of German because Germany would be
0:36.2	MIT T E L right mittel man I think it might have been one of those things he came to
0:40.3	whatever it's actually like we're, we're responding this way.
0:44.0	Probably.
0:46.0	Yeah, what is that, what is that last thing?
0:47.5	What are you?
0:48.7	Jewish?
0:49.7	Jewish. Okay, yeah.
0:50.7	My parents, most of my family families from Western Europe.
0:53.8	Well, welcome, sir. Thank you.
0:54.7	And before we get into your thing,
0:56.9	we should stay right off the jump that he got you a job at Fat Farm.
1:00.8	Yes, yes, that was, that's our how we ended up knowing each other from that when I first moved to New York that was one of my first jobs but I was also working in an art gallery.
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