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Entrepreneur, activist and educator Joshua Katcher opens up the world's of TV and Fashion to take us behind the scenes of his own journey navigating masculinity and femininity in an industry of historical "fashion gay" cliches, the exclusion of exclusivity, and his belief that "gender neutral fashion is the future" in the compassion fashion revolution. Also, Joshua shares his thoughts on the world of Reality TV, where it thrives and falls, and what the ultimate point of it is if not to drive us forward.Joshua Katcher is a fashion entrepreneur, author, educator and vegan cheesemonger who has taught at Parsons The New School and LIM college, and has lectured internationally and lobbied in the United States for sustainable and ethical fashion. In 2019 he published Fashion Animals, the first book dedicated to understanding how and why animals are exploited in the fashion industry.Katcher was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential Vegans of 2019 by Veg News Magazine. He launched the first vegan, ethically-made menswear fashion brand, Brave GentleMan in 2010 after launching the first men's vegan lifestyle website The Discerning Brute in 2008. VOGUE says that, "The full scope of Katcher's ethical commitment is rather head-spinning, just as it is to gape about his Williamsburg shop, with its complete future-is-now men's range". Katcher was awarded "Menswear Brand of the Year, 2016" and "Most Influential Designer of 2015" by PETA. He is a contributor to Business of Fashion, CFDA News and Plant Based News and has been interviewed on major networks, such as PBS News Hour as a fashion expert.In 2017, Katcher cofounded RIND, a French-style, plant-based cheese company, and in 2020 he launched CIRCUMFAUNA, a data and research-driven platform to bypass animal inputs in fashion.CIRCUMFAUNABrave Gentleman

Featuring an interview with vegan fashion designer and author Joshua Katcher, founder of Brave GentleMan and The Discerning Brute. Read more →

This season of The ChickPeeps is brought to you by our friends at Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com. In this episode Evy and special guest host Elliot Knight interview fashion entrepreneur, author, cheesemaker, educator and all-round renaissance man Joshua Katcher. A multi-hyphenate creative and long-time vegan activist, Joshua combines his keen eye for design with his vegan values, founding fashion brand The Brave Gentleman, teaching at universities around the world and authoring Fashion Animals, his breathtaking book about the history of animals used in fashion. During this chat he shares his wisdom and passion for ethically produced fashion and delves into the innovations happening to make the future of fashion inevitably vegan. While you're listening, please take a moment to check out the link to our sponsor. Not only are Vivo Life a great, vegan company, but their support also allows us to continue to produce The ChickPeeps for you! We love them and their products and we think you will too. Also in this episode… Joshua gives some truly creative answers in his quickfire questions round! Joshua talks about his journey and explains how he started a fashion brand with no background in the industry. We discuss whether the elitism inherent in the fashion world is at odds with the values of veganism, and Joshua shares why fashion is a serious, significant matter with a wide-reaching impact. The nature of consumerism and why vegan brands have been relatively ineffective (compared with efforts in the food industry) at replacing traditional, animal-based products.  Joshua describes his love-hate relationship with the fashion industry and where he thinks it is headed in the future. Joshua tells Evy and Elliot about the next generation of designers and materials that are vegan and primed to take the fashion world by storm. #mushroomleather Joshua calls out the current ‘power brokers' of the fashion industry and shares his vision for how fashion can empower us, protect ecosystems, sequester carbon and provide communities with a means of being self-sufficient. Elliot is launching a podcast! The ChickPeeps Treasure Hunt Giveaway! Listen for your 1st clue! Links: Follow Joshua Katcher on Instagram and Twitter Follow The Brave Gentleman on Instagram Joshua's website The Discerning Brute Check out Joshua's amazing slow fashion, vegan brand Brave Gentleman Check out Joshua's epic, coffee table book, Fashion Animals Joshua's cheese; RIND Follow guest-host Elliot Knight on instagram! Get In Touch: Bonus Content: ChickPeeps Patreon Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast

If you think that veganism only applies to food, then this podcast episode will open a whole new side of the plant-based lifestyle to you.  We’ve known for a long time that fashion can be bad for both animals and the environment, but more than recycling fashion items or even avoiding fast fashion, one entrepreneur has changed the animal-free-fashion game by creating a whole fashion brand catered to men.  Joshua Katcher educates us on the relationship of masculinity, meat, animals, and fashion.  Joshua’s portfolio includes being a production media practitioner, entrepreneur, author, designer, activist, artist, and educator.  Not only that, he’s the founder and co-founder of two other successful businesses in other industries, all plant-based.  How he fits everything he has to do in a day is nothing short of amazing. We’ll learn more about Brave GentleMan, which offers a full line of high-quality luxury vegan and sustainable shoes for men. His business started – not from head to toe – but toe to head.  How does one start a shoe business, let alone a vegan one?  Joshua gives us a glimpse of what he did to turn his vision into sales.  He also tells us about the challenges he encountered and the lessons he learned the hard way so that you can avoid making them.  We’re excited to show you this increasingly popular side of plant-based entrepreneurship.  For those who are on the edge of dabbing into vegan business concepts that go beyond food into other industries, take a lesson from Joshua Katcher and Brave GentleMan.

When it comes to fashion and good design, Joshua Katcher, the man behind the sustainable luxury fashion label, Brave GentleMan, cares a lot about beauty; but not in the way that most people think about it. He defines beauty not only as the end result - the dapper suit or the stylish boots; instead, he only deems something beautiful when the entire process that has created that something is beautiful, meaning ethical, sustainable, and made with materials and processes that never hurt anyone - human or animal. (And, of course it needs to look good too.) Joshua knows a lot about fashion. He founded the popular men's vegan lifestyle website, The Discerning Brute in 2008. His brand, Brave GentleMan has appeared in Vogue and on the cover of GQ. He's taught at Parsons the New School and L I M College, and has lectured internationally and lobbied in the United States for sustainable and ethical fashion.

There doesn't seem to be much Joshua Katcher, aka The Discerning Brute, can't do. He's the Founder of luxury vegan menswear brand Brave GentleMan, Co-Founder of a plant-based cheese company, and Author of Fashion Animals: a book that explores 'the visual history and ideology of animals exploited in fashion'. In this episode, Katcher sits down with Plant Based News' Co-Founder Robbie Lockie to take a look at the fashion industry 'through the lens of carnism'. "Sometimes being cruel is desirable." Find out more about Rind the vegan cheese here https://www.instagram.com/rind.cheese Joshua's website https://www.bravegentleman.com And his book 'Fashion Animals' which you can buy here: https://amzn.to/2NGoA98 The podcast covers subjects including: 3.20: Joshua's vegan journey 6.00: Carnism 7.10: Influences to veganism 8.29: Concerns about going vegan 10.20: Involvement within the vegan community 13.15: Acting on anger 16.10: Breaking into the fashion industry 19.56: The effects of fast-fashion 22.50: The leather industry 26.00: The return of fur 27.30: The Yulin Dog Festival 31.00: Fashion Animals: The book 33.50: Future materials 36.45: Vegan leather and the environment 44.30: 'We don't need more t-shirt companies' 47.30: Rind Cheese 53.00: Stranded on a desert island Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited by Phil Marriot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen on other platforms Spotify: http://bit.ly/PBN_onSpotify iTunes: http://apple.co/PBN_Podcast1 REVIEW/SHARE ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you enjoyed the episode and have a spare 1-2 minutes please leave a review on iTunes so the Plant Based News podcast ranks higher and becomes more discoverable for other listeners. If you have any friends that would benefit from listening to this episode or any of the other Plant Based News podcast episodes, please share. Together we can make this world a more compassionate place. ----

Featuring an interview with vegan fashion designer and author Joshua Katcher, founder of Brave GentleMan and The Discerning Brute. Read more →

Featured in Vogue and GQ, Joshua Katcher is changing the face of fashion with his upscale menswear line, the classes he teaches in sustainable fashion at Parsons School of Design, and his long-awaited new book, Fashion Animal. Show notes.

In episode 156, Kestrel welcomes Garik Himebaugh, the founder at Eco-Stylist, to the show. An online marketplace for eco-conscious and ethically made men’s clothing, Eco-Stylist was founded to search for an answer to the question, “can sustainable be dapper?” “I think you can create a really great outfit with ethical and sustainable options only, and then the options just keep getting better — so that’s an inspiring and positive trend as well.” -Garik Himebaugh In this week’s show, Garik shares more on what led him from fashion tech toward a more ethical and sustainable direction. He also reveals some of his favorite brands in the sustainable menswear realm. It’s motivating to hear that Garik does believe that sustainable fashion can be dapper. The below thoughts, ideas + organizations were brought up in this chat:  Adelante Shoe Company, one of the first brands that truly inspired Garik Vustra, they make more colorful men’s button-up shirts Outerknown, a brand Garik suggests, listen to hear their episode on Conscious Chatter here > Z Shoes, vegan shoe brand Garik recommends Arvin Goods, brand Garik recommends for basics Zero Waste Daniel, cool brand that upcycles fabric scraps Nisolo, shoe brand Garik suggests for classic styles Brave Gentleman, brand Garik suggests for interesting vegan clothing like biker jackets What are the best ways to repurpose your old clothes? on Eco-Stylist

This week, Mariann Sullivan talks to fashion designer, activist, and educator Joshua Katcher about his new book, Fashion Animals; his ethically-made fashion menswear brand, Brave Gentleman; and his new cheese band, RIND. Joshua has taught at Parsons The New School and LIM college, and has lectured internationally on sustainable and ethical fashion. Katcher was awarded most influential designer of 2015 by…

This week, Mariann Sullivan talks to fashion designer, activist, and educator Joshua Katcher about his new book, Fashion Animals; his ethically-made fashion menswear brand, Brave Gentleman; and his new cheese band, RIND. Joshua has taught at Parsons The New School […]

What the hell is a vegan tattoo?! That was my first thought when I heard about it. So I had Dina, the owner of the 100% vegan tattoo shop Gristle Tattoo, tell me all about it. We also discuss how her background in finance helped her in the tattoo industry, how Gristle came to be, her new nursing practice, and more.  GRISTLE TATTOO LINKS:WEBSITE: www.gristletattoo.com IG: @gristletattoo FB: www.facebook.com/gristletattoo TWITTER: @gristletattoo ANNA'S SOCIAL LINKS:Follow me on Instagram: @runningvegannycTweet at me: @wildmannaEmail me: runningvegannyc@gmail.comRead my blog: runningvegannyc.com/ Watch my new YouTube channel (!!!): www.youtube.com/channel/runningvegannyc Get 15% off your Sudio Sweden headphones with code RUNNINGVEGAN (code lasts forever!): sudiosweden.com Intro/outro music by Ellis Delta: soundcloud.com/ellisdeltaTransition music Moving by ärtsē: soundcloud.com/foreverartse/ SHOW NOTES: People/places/things mentioned in episode Dina's favorite tattoo:  Henbo: www.gristletattoo.com/henbo.html NY doctor profile: https://www.nydoctorprofile.com Joshua of Brave Gentleman: www.bravegentleman.com/about

In today's episode we talk about what's happening in the animal rights community, Ashley’s recent trip to La La Land, and we have a special guest co-host that will give us some men’s vegan fashion advice! Ask Ashley A Giant Vegan Market Is Opening In London Today And It Looks Glorious https://secretldn.com/2017/03/giant-vegan-market-opening-london-today-looks-glorious/ By Chloe Splits With Vegan Celebrity Founder Chloe Coscarelli http://ny.eater.com/2017/3/27/15071258/by-chloe-coscarelli-split-lawsuit SeaWorld to expand in China after investment deal http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4348234/SeaWorld-expand-China-investment-deal.html   Men's Fashion Advice with Matt Will’s Vegan Shoes https://vegan-shoes-usa.com Brave Gentleman https://www.bravegentleman.com Matt & Nat https://mattandnat.com Novacas https://www.avesu.eu/brands/novacas-eu.html     Gently stalk us https://www.dollsanddoughnuts.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dolls-doughnuts/id1054747608 YouTube: dolls & doughnuts (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnK9ShI0B4IBEsRK865sgQQ) Twitter: @dolls_doughnuts (https://twitter.com/dolls_doughnuts)   IG: @dollsanddoughnuts (https://www.instagram.com/dollsanddoughnuts/) Email: dollsanddoughnuts@gmail.com   Dolls & Doughnuts is a vegan centered podcast covering everything from animals rights to delicious vegan food. With your hosts! Ashley - http://www.theveganadventure.com/ Robin - https://vegandollhouse.com/  

In this episode I interview Joshua Katcher from Brave GentleMan, a disruptive vegan menswear label in New York. Joshua previously worked in creative media, including roles as director, editor, producer and director of photography for PBS and MTV. In 2008 he discovered an appreciation for fashion and launched men's lifestyle website The Discerning Brute, which focused on “fashion, food and etiquette for the ethically handsome man”. The blog quickly established Joshua as a pioneer in the field of ethical, sustainable fashion and two years later in 2010 he launched the Brave GentleMan label and online store. Brave GentleMan fuses future-textiles with centuries-old production methodology. Utilizing what he calls “future suede”, “future leather” and “future wool”, which are superior to animal-fibers, Joshua has created a high-end, sustainable and ethically-made Men's Collection. The company offers luxury New York made suiting, premium footwear produced in Portugal and hats made in Los Angeles, along with accessories made in New York's Historic Garment Center and Gloversville. Joshua's groundbreaking work has been featured in several high-profile media outlets, including Oprah.com and most recently Paper magazine which referred to Brave GentleMan as having “just about everything a mindful fashionisto could want”. As well as running his business, Joshua is also an adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons The New School. His research focuses on sustainability and ethics in fashion and he'll soon be releasing a book on the topic. In this interview Joshua discusses: •    The key things you must have and do to create a successful business, despite having no previous experience in a particular industry •    The challenges involved in opening a physical store •    The one thing that will set you apart from other brands •    Why crowdfunding is not necessarily a good strategy for fashion brands •    A relatively unknown yet surprisingly beneficial source of loans •    The importance of pre-orders to grow your business •    And much more Visit the Brave GentleMan website Visit the The Discerning Brute website Brands mentioned in vegan business roundup: The Peacock The Green Lion Evergreen Organics J-Rocks Pop Pret a Manger RESOURCES: My Online PR Course for Vegan Business Owners & Entrepreneurs: Vegans in the Limelight My book Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business Follow Vegan Business Media on: Facebook   Twitter  Instagram  Connect with me personally at: Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn

In this episode I interview Joshua Katcher from Brave GentleMan, a disruptive vegan menswear label in New York. Joshua previously worked in creative media, including roles as director, editor, producer and director of photography for PBS and MTV. In 2008 he discovered an appreciation for fashion and launched men’s lifestyle website The Discerning Brute, which focused on “fashion, food and etiquette for the ethically handsome man”. The blog quickly established Joshua as a pioneer in the field of ethical, sustainable fashion and two years later in 2010 he launched the Brave GentleMan label and online store. Brave GentleMan fuses future-textiles with centuries-old production methodology. Utilizing what he calls “future suede”, “future leather” and “future wool”, which are superior to animal-fibers, Joshua has created a high-end, sustainable and ethically-made Men’s Collection. The company offers luxury New York made suiting, premium footwear produced in Portugal and hats made in Los Angeles, along with accessories made in New York’s Historic Garment Center and Gloversville. Joshua’s groundbreaking work has been featured in several high-profile media outlets, including Oprah.com and most recently Paper magazine which referred to Brave GentleMan as having “just about everything a mindful fashionisto could want”. As well as running his business, Joshua is also an adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons The New School. His research focuses on sustainability and ethics in fashion and he’ll soon be releasing a book on the topic. In this interview Joshua discusses: •    The key things you must have and do to create a successful business, despite having no previous experience in a particular industry •    The challenges involved in opening a physical store •    The one thing that will set you apart from other brands •    Why crowdfunding is not necessarily a good strategy for fashion brands •    A relatively unknown yet surprisingly beneficial source of loans •    The importance of pre-orders to grow your business •    And much more Visit the Brave GentleMan website Visit the The Discerning Brute website Brands mentioned in vegan business roundup: The Peacock The Green Lion Evergreen Organics J-Rocks Pop Pret a Manger RESOURCES: My Online PR Course for Vegan Business Owners & Entrepreneurs: Vegans in the Limelight My book Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business Follow Vegan Business Media on: Facebook   Twitter  Instagram  Connect with me personally at: Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn

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“Being morally correct rarely overcomes the perceived correctness of beauty.”Joshua KatcherWe talk quite often about food on this podcast — particularly the health, environmental and ethical implications our collective dietary choices and the global impact of the industrialized food industry on the same.But you might be less consciously aware of the massive extent to which the garment industry impacts a wide range of concerns from global climate change to animal welfare to ethics and beyond.Fashion is a world that desperately needs an environmentally conscious, sustainability-focused and ethically driven facelift. A world I wanted to know more about. Irrespective of whether you are an avid reader of Vogue or favor dad jeans, this is a world that merits our attention.To learn more, I sat down with professor, fashion designer, and blogger Joshua Katcher– the founder & creative director behind the sustainable, ethically conscious high-end fashion line Brave GentleMan and the founder of The Discerning Brute – a men’s lifestyle website that focuses on fashion, food, etiquette and ethics profiling creative-influencers who want to redesign the world, redefine success, and look good doing it. Joshua is also a public lecturer and adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons The New School, where his research focuses on sustainability and ethics in fashion production.This conversation offers a quite revealing and at times uncomfortable look at the truth behind exactly how most clothes are manufactured, distributed and marketed to drive consumer purchasing trends. It's not pretty. But there is a solution. Joshua and his work is part of that solution — leveraging forward-thinking, modern textiles and progressive, business practices that embrace fashion and aesthetics to bring consumers beautiful, better and quite honestly, more ethically imagined and manufactured garments for us to enjoy.This is a really interesting talk about:* the complex intersection of ethics, aesthetics and fashion;* the social norms and parameters that define masculinity;* why fur is the furthest thing from cool;* what really goes into creating garments from wool;* the environmental impact of raising animals for clothing;* the advent of more sustainable and ethically manufactured materials for garments; and* the realities behind what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in the garment industry.Highly intelligent, hyper-articulate and of course always bespoke, Joshua is an outstanding ambassador and aesthete of modern fashion modalities, not to mention badass at CrossFit to boot. It's my honor to share my friend Joshua's message and experience with you and my hope is that you will come away from this conversation more enlightened and educated when it comes to aligning your consumerism with your values. I did.Even if fashion is not your thing, trust me. This compelling exchange just might surprise you. I sincerely hope you enjoy the offering.Peace + Plants,Listen & Subscribe on iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You’ve been hearing a lot about our #MakeFurHistory campaign in the last week and a half – and sharing it with your friends, family and neighbours. We’re seeing a huge influx of support as a result and can’t thank you all enough. This week we’re taking another look at the fur industry and why fur is still fashionable with a top designer, professor and blogger: Joshua Katcher. Editor and founder of the Discerning Brute blog, designer of the Brave Gentleman fashion line and an adjunct professor of fashion at Parsons, Joshua is widely regarded as an expert on sustainable and humane fashion. In a recent conversation with Defender Radio, Joshua not only touched on his background and interest in humane fashion, but looked at the history and evolution of fur, the cultural symbolism it continues to represent and how we might fight the fur industry by using their own tactics against them.