010 | Welcoming Janie Bryant to the Inherent Clothier Family

08/26/20 • 37 min

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) talks to Emmy Award Winning Costume Designer Janie Bryant (Mad Men, Deadwood, Why Women Kill), a new part-owner of Inherent Clothier. They discuss Janie’s background in costume design for film and TV and how she discovered her passion for menswear. Janie also shares her views on contemporary menswear, cultivating confidence in yourself, and more. They even share some details on their upcoming collection, which Janie and Taylor designed together! Be sure to follow Inherent Clothier on instagram to see this collection come to life.

3 Key Points

Money isn’t required to take pride in your appearance.
Modern menswear is focused on versatility and the ability to mix-and-match pieces.
Confidence is important in following your passions, but sometimes it only comes once you start.

Episode Highlights:

Janie is now a part owner of Inherent Clothier, and she has wanted to design a menswear collection for years.
As a costume designer on shows like Mad Men, Janie has seen firsthand how men realize the impact a well-fitted suit can have on their confidence.
You can take pride in your appearance no matter how much money you have.
You can turn a suit into a more casual, everyday look by wearing a t-shirt under the jacket or pairing a sport coat with jeans.
Janie believes menswear badly needed an update in the way Inherent Clothier is making it modern.
To Janie, a modern interpretation of formalwear is the flexibility to wear a dinner jacket with jeans, and to otherwise mix and match.
The Bryan Draper Capsule Collection will include formalwear, shirts, all-season suits, and you'll be able to mix and match all the pieces.
Janie studied fashion design in college and moved to France when she graduated with the dream of becoming a famous fashion designer.
Once she moved to New York, she ended up in social circles with a lot of film people and learned about costume design.
Janie was working on a music video and the director told her to believe in her choices and to believe in herself; she hadn’t even realized she was doubting herself, but that advice has stuck with her.

Tweetable Quotes:

“There’s so many combinations, and you can really turn the suit into something that used to be, in older generations, a formal thing, into just an everyday, casual thing.” –Janie Bryant
“I truly believe that enlightenment and joyfulness is optimal to live a great life. So how do you get to that place? You get to that place through great mental health.” –Janie Bryant
“Being yourself and having confidence and faith in yourself is the most magical thing you can do.” –Janie Bryant

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3 Key Points

Money isn’t required to take pride in your appearance.
Modern menswear is focused on versatility and the ability to mix-and-match pieces.
Confidence is important in following your passions, but sometimes it only comes once you start.

Episode Highlights:

Janie is now a part owner of Inherent Clothier, and she has wanted to design a menswear collection for years.
As a costume designer on shows like Mad Men, Janie has seen firsthand how men realize the impact a well-fitted suit can have on their confidence.
You can take pride in your appearance no matter how much money you have.
You can turn a suit into a more casual, everyday look by wearing a t-shirt under the jacket or pairing a sport coat with jeans.
Janie believes menswear badly needed an update in the way Inherent Clothier is making it modern.
To Janie, a modern interpretation of formalwear is the flexibility to wear a dinner jacket with jeans, and to otherwise mix and match.
The Bryan Draper Capsule Collection will include formalwear, shirts, all-season suits, and you'll be able to mix and match all the pieces.
Janie studied fashion design in college and moved to France when she graduated with the dream of becoming a famous fashion designer.
Once she moved to New York, she ended up in social circles with a lot of film people and learned about costume design.
Janie was working on a music video and the director told her to believe in her choices and to believe in herself; she hadn’t even realized she was doubting herself, but that advice has stuck with her.

Tweetable Quotes:

“There’s so many combinations, and you can really turn the suit into something that used to be, in older generations, a formal thing, into just an everyday, casual thing.” –Janie Bryant
“I truly believe that enlightenment and joyfulness is optimal to live a great life. So how do you get to that place? You get to that place through great mental health.” –Janie Bryant
“Being yourself and having confidence and faith in yourself is the most magical thing you can do.” –Janie Bryant

Resources Mentioned:

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009 | A Conversation With Eduardo Xavier

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) speaks with Eduardo Xavier of European Custom Tailors. They discuss the importance of hats, how to cultivate your personal style, the importance of travel in understanding your style and communicating with other people, and more. Eduardo also shares his perspective on building your personal image, and how that has an inextricable relationship to your mental health.

3 Key Points

Exploration, whether travel or just via Instagram, is crucial to developing your personal style.
Learning to style the pieces you have is often more impactful and important than the quality of the items themselves.
Developing your personal image is a way to develop greater self confidence.

Episode Highlights:

The quality of a suit has less of an impact than overall styling does.
Eduardo’s advice to someone looking to develop their personal menswear style is to explore Instagram, but understand your body and look for models with similar bodies to yours.
Exploration is key to figuring out your style.
Styling has to do with your overall image—as you learn about yourself and what you like and what image of yourself you want to show the world, the world starts to notice and perceives you differently, which reflects back to you whether that’s the image you want to have.

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011 | Dressing Well, A Conversation With Richard Taylor

In this episode of Dressing for Wellness, Taylor (Inherent Clothier CEO) talks to Richard Taylor, owner of Harrison Blake Apparel. Started back in 2014, Harrison Blake had humble beginnings, only producing lapel pens and small accessories. Now, Richard creates high-quality custom suits that give their buyers inherent confidence that they can take to the other parts of their lives!

3 Key Points

The mental health aspect of dressing confidently and confidently dressing can help people bring that confidence to other areas of their lives.
The impact that a new-found confidence from dressing better has on the other people in your community will cause people to look up to you.
The assumptions made about you will be based off of how you dress

Episode Highlights:

Getting a dream suit allows people to awaken their inherent confidence
Life experience has shown Richard that people respond to you differently when you are wearing a suit
Productivity goes up when you can get into that mindset of getting ready to take on the world
Their is a direct correlation between how you dress and how productive you make your day
A lot of education and interviews are needed to bring awareness to what changes have been made due to the pandemic
It affects you as a person when you dress well. It’s very visible to other people.
Dressing well not only affects you, but also the people in your community in a positive fashion
Staying conscious about how you dress before you leave your house will add intentionality to your daily routine