Port Magazine: Recent Episodes
Port Magazine
The home of exclusive interviews and The Path to Positive Change, a new monthly series created by Port. We bring together industry leaders in fashion, as well as surrounding creative worlds such as art, design, film and food to look back at recent work and reflect on how brands and culture can be a force for good. Whether it is looking at how to make the world more sustainable, sources of inspiration or how best to change hearts and minds, please join us as we look to the future.
Continuing our partnership with Giorgio Armani by working with leading writers to bring you extraordinary original work, we present here, for the final instalment, an exclusive conversation between issue 31 cover star Will Sharpe and guest contributor Moya Lothian-Mclean.
The award-winning actor, director and writer discusses a new piece of writing commission especially for Port – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Hawk – and his role in the latest season of The White Lotus, alongside other acclaimed work for the big and small screen.
Continuing our partnership with Giorgio Armani by working with leading contemporary writers to bring you original work, we present here, for the third instalment, a new piece of writing from award-winning spoken word performer George the Poet. After reading his text – 10 reasons why everyone should write – he talks to guest contributor Moya Lothian-Mclean about how the act of articulation brings clarity, closure and coordination of intent.
Our newest episode – recorded in halfway through 2021 – features Gavin Turk and Stephen Jones.
Gavin Turk is an award-winning artist who first came to prominence as part of the YBAs in the early 90s. He’s pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including painted bronze, waxwork and the use of rubbish. His installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity, often incorporating images of himself, as well as iconic figures taken from popular culture and art history.
Stephen Jones is widely considered to be one of the world's most radical and important milliners working today. Since opening his first millinery salon in Covent Garden, in 1980, he has made hats for the likes of Princess Diana and Mick Jagger, collaborating with designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Claude Montana, through to his current work with Thom Browne and Christian Dior.
Together with host Tom Bolger, they discuss the myths around creativity, art and audience, and how to remain curious.
This episode features Martino Gamper, Imogen Wright and Vincent Le Chapelain. The former is an award-winning Italian designer, whose work spans exhibition and interior design, one-off commissions and the design of mass-produced products for the cutting edge of the international furniture industry. Imogen Wright and Vincent Le Chapelain, meanwhile, are the founders of Wright Le Chapelain, the independent London-based label that creates unique up-cycled and responsibly made clothing. Together with host Tom Bolger, they discuss improvising with found objects, relying on your partner for constructive criticism, and the changing face of London.
To celebrate Port’s 10th anniversary, we’ve partnered with Giorgio Armani on a two-issue Commentary special, publishing original work from some of the most relevant writers working today. For Autumn / Winter, we present ‘In Flux’, an expansive new essay from the multi-award-winning author and issue 29 cover star Elif Shafak. She analyses sections from his recent novel The Island of Missing Trees, in turn ruminating on memory, our necessity for stories, and the precarious balance of optimism and pessimism in 2021. Afterwards, she catches up with guest contributor and politics editor at Gal-Dem, Moya Lothian-McLean, to discuss the piece. Music by Edison Music.
This episode is an Irish design special, with guests Robyn Lynch and Jordan Ralph. Lynch is a Dublin born, London based menswear designer who celebrates Irish heritage in her designs, while Ralph is a Dublin based architectural interior and product designer who works with brands, agencies, restaurants, artists and galleries on a broad range of projects.
This episode our guests are Kaushik Velendra – the founder of the acclaimed London-based luxury menswear label which carries him name – and David Kappo, the course leader of Central Saint Martins' world renown Graduate Diploma in fashion. Together, we discuss increasing diversity and inclusion, creativity in education, and more holistic, human definitions of sustainability.
This episode we’re joined by Emily Adams Bode and Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. Adams Bode is the NYC based founder of Bode, the agenda setting menswear brand that’s loved in the fashion industry for its craftsmanship and use of vintage textiles to create unique, one-off items. Trimarchi and Farresin are co-founders of Studio Formafantasma, a design firm based in Amsterdam that’s celebrated for its innovative use of materials and incisive questioning on the way the design industry operates.
Recorded at the close of a tumultuous 2020, this episode our guests are Nick Wakeman and Merlin Labron-Johnson. Nick Wakeman is the creative director and founder of Studio Nicholson, the iconic menswear and womenswear brand based in London whose elegant collections are immediately recognisable due to their functionality, modernity and playfulness. Merlin Labron-Johnson is an award-winning chef whose latest project is the farm-to-table restaurant Osip, situated in the heart of rural Somerset.
To celebrate Port’s 10th anniversary, we’ve partnered with Giorgio Armani on a two-issue Commentary special. Working with contemporary writers to bring you incredible original work, we present here, for the first instalment, a new piece of writing from the award-winning musician and best-selling author Akala. Titled 'The Seriousness of Small Joys', his deft polemic reflects on the art of not knowing. Afterwards, he catches up with guest contributor and politics editor of Gal-Dem – Moya Lothian-Mclean – to discuss the piece, how to challenge self-importance, and the thinking behind his debut work of fiction The Dark Lady.