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- 3 days ago15 min
Do You Know How Much It Costs To Make Your Clothes?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!No brands — including Chanel, H&M, Zara, and Adidas — can confirm their workers are paid a living wage. Workers in Bangladesh earn 73% less than a living wage. Pakistan: 74% less. Serbia: 63% less. Turkey: 66% less. This episode isn't about blaming brands for being evil. It is about something more uncomfortable than that. It is about why this is not an accident. It is a design feature. And three theorists from the last 200 years explain it better than any journalist ever has. I am not sure about you, but I love shopping. I just want to know why we buy what we buy. Fromtheshelf is a fun, semi-educational, and very opinionated fashion podcast about the psychology of shopping. We break down fashion trends, luxury brands, beauty trends, and pop culture through consumer psychology, behavioral economics, and fashion theory. I've bought, worn, or at least tried most of what I talk about, so no guilt trips.
- 3 days ago13 min
New Creative Direction at Hermès — What Grace Wales Bonner Means for Luxury
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Quick disclaimer before we start — I was a little sick when I filmed this, so if I sound a bit like I am narrating from inside a cave, it is because I kind of was.In October 2026, Hermès announced that Grace Wales Bonner would become the new creative director of menswear — replacing Véronique Nichanian, who held the role for 37 years. Wales Bonner is British-Jamaican, 35 years old, and the first woman of color to lead design at a major luxury house. She is taking over the world's oldest family-owned luxury brand in the world. This episode is about what it means. And Stuart Hall — one of the most important cultural theorists of the 20th century — gives us a framework far sharper than celebration or cynicism.What I cover in this episode:Stuart Hall's encoding&decoding theory. And why the same event means completely different things to different audiences.New Ethnicities (1988) — Hall's argument about the politics of Black representation and what visibility actually does and does not change .Who Grace Wales Bonner is, what her creative practice has actually been about.What Hermès is encoding with this appointment — and what different audiences will decode from it.The uncomfortable question: is this historic or is this strategic? And can it be both simultaneously?From the Shelf is a faceless fashion and culture podcast applying theory to the fashion industry. New episodes on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
- 5 days ago12 min
The Shop Window Was the First Feed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1967, Guy Debord said capitalism had replaced real experience with images: life as a performance, a spectacle. It sounds like Instagram. He meant the shop window.This episode looks at the shop window as the original spectacle: how it shapes how we see products, how we shop, and how we want, and why it feels so familiar on our phones today.From the Shelf, the fashion podcast you never asked for.
- Oct 5, 202618 min
Quiet Luxury: Taste, or Just Money Hiding?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Why do the most expensive things often have no logo at all? 🤔In this episode of Fromtheshelf, I'm talking all about quiet luxury, the trend where people show status through fabric, fit and quality instead of big logos.I get into why quiet luxury keeps coming back, the theory behind it (hello Veblen and Bourdieu 👋), and the question I can't stop thinking about: is quiet luxury actually anti-consumerist, or is it just harder to spot?I also follow the look all the way down the luxury pyramid, from supreme luxury to masstige, and talk about what cheaper brands can copy, and what they just can't fake.For more, including my luxury pyramid snack series, come find Fromtheshelf on TikTok, Instagram and Threads ✨
- Sep 22, 20266 min
Why Are We Obsessed With This? Advent Calendar Obsession Explained Through Social & Behavioral Theories.
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This video explores advent calendars and their impact on consumers and fashion/ beauty industries today. While some see advent calendars as a traditional, appealing practice, others view them as clever marketing that doesn't deliver the promised value. I examine the advent calendar 'phenomenon' through social and consumer theories to clarify this debate, while unpacking the beauty calendar I got from Liberty London.
- Sep 14, 202613 min
Schiaparelli through Freud, Breton and Lacan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Surrealism in Fashion Explained: An ode to Schiaparelli's Surrealist objects and designs through the prism of Freud, Breton and Lacan
- Aug 18, 202622 min
What Wellness Economy Makes Us Do & Why It Is Not A Bad Thing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In this episode, I am not trying to convince you that everything you buy is a scam. I use the wellness economy as a social theory on why we buy and how it makes us feel ( obvs, including me) - healthism, the aestheticization of everyday life, postmodern consumption.
- Jul 30, 202624 min
K-Pop Idols As the New Luxury Billboards
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!K-pop idols have become luxury fashion's most powerful — and most extracted — marketing channel. When Dior signed Jisoo, Korean sales nearly doubled. This episode breaks down why, using Bourdieu's cultural capital, Nye's soft power, Horton and Wohl's parasocial interaction theory, Tajfel and Turner's social identity theory, fan economy theory, and Abidin's calibrated amateurism — to explain why fans buy the bag even when they know it's an ad, and why that knowledge doesn't stop them.
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