Episode 207 - Elena Velez

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Fashion Designer Elena Velez finds beauty in unlikely places and attributes her industrial artistic style to her Midwest upbringing. Raised by a single mother who worked as a ship captain on the Great Lakes, Elena spent much of her childhood surrounded by heavy machinery and unique landscapes, and its influence can be seen in her work today. Though she always knew she wanted to be a fashion designer, she felt underrepresented in the industry. However, being an outsider isn’t stopping her from finding success. Velez has gained notoriety through prestigious awards, success at New York Fashion Week, and dressing celebrities like Taylor Swift and Julia Fox. She dreams of building up American fashion by opening a production house in Milwaukee, thus proving that the industry doesn't solely belong in creative capitals like New York or LA. In this episode of the Cripescast, she and Charlie discuss the obstacles of the fashion industry, debate whether staples of Midwestern fashion are runway ready, and even workshop Charlie’s runway walk for his fashion week debut.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Krebscast.
0:02.2	Today we got a fashion designer on the deal,
0:05.3	a Midwest born and Brad fashion designer, Elena Vales.
0:10.0	You've seen her designs in Taylor Swift videos, celebrities have worn them, she's New York fashion week.
0:18.0	The real deal. The real deal, it's pretty cool because you know a lot of people when they think oh Midwest fashion
0:23.6	what does that even mean is that just like people in the Midwest wearing
0:27.6	fashionable stuff ten years after it was fashionable and that might be true if you're
0:32.2	talking about me but Elena is on
0:36.0	the cutting edge of this and it's very cool to see someone from the Midwest step up her
0:40.9	story quick story Elena she's a Milwaukee native. She lives in
0:44.9	New York City right now. She went to schools, Parsons School of Design, Central
0:50.0	St. Martins, and she is an award-winning fashion designer. She was named the
0:54.6	2022 Emerging Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
0:59.1	She was recognized as part of Al magazine's 2023 Women of Impact.
1:03.6	2022, the Vogue Fashion Fund winner.
1:06.9	She's been featured in Forbes magazine.
1:09.1	It goes on.
1:09.8	It goes on and on and on.
1:11.3	Her mom was a Lake Great Lakes ship captain. She drove
1:17.0	ships all throughout Lake Michigan based in Milwaukee and everything from
1:22.0	icebreakers to sort of those cruise ships, those blues crews things.
1:26.2	She was in the ship kind of at an early age and that inspired her aesthetic, kind of the
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