SOUNDS & STYLE W/ LYNETTE NYLANDER

Join Lynette and some of culture’s most influential figures as they explore how music and style links what we wear with who we are. Expect deep cuts into musical genres and fashion subcultures as Lynette and guests look at how the music they love has informed the work they make today. This is not a podcast that loves fashion, it’s a podcast that celebrates style.

EP1: Martine Rose

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Martine Rose is the perfect guest to launch Sounds and Style with. The work of the seminal British menswear designer is inextricably linked with her formative years on dancefloors and living rooms listening to her older cousin’s acid house tapes, pirate radio with her big sister, and her grandparents’ records.

In this episode Martine and Lynette talk about Martine’s early childhood memories at her grandparent’s home where her grandad would play John Holt’s One Hundred Vaults of Holt after church as well as witty calypso songs by Pluto Shervington and Lord Kitchener. The pair reflect on the continued impact of Martine’s family in shaping her music and wider tastes. Hear Martine and Lynette get a bit emotional thinking about Frankie Knuckles’ Tears which, for Martine felt like a portal into the wider world; dancefloors, and togetherness beckoned. Goldie’s Timeless, Martine’s final selection, takes Martine back to her late teens working on a trading estate and taking life from Goldie’s masterpiece that lives in the cassette player of her purple beetle.

If you want to be taken to Martine’s musical world, listen to the 60 minute mix inspired by Martine’s episode.

For this final episode of Sounds and Style Season 1 Lynette is joined by stylist and editor-in-chief of Interview Magazine, Mel Ottenberg. Recorded at Mel’s legendary apartment in New York City, Mel and Lynette cover some of the many highlights from Mel’s career including his part in the Britney Spears Slave 4 U snake styling moment, turning down work with Prince to style a film that ‘no one’s ever seen’, and his early days skipping school to watch drag shows on acid.

A suitably fabulous season finale.