Dry Clean Only: Conversations on Fashion + Style

In this episode, fashion-insider, host Kristen Cole (in NYC) sits with BIRD BROOKLYN founder, industry-veteran Jen Mankins (in Stockholm) to discuss what's she's been up to and all things multi-brand retail. The women discuss the specialty retail implosion in and around 2020, her decision to close her much-loved, quintessential Brooklyn boutique brand BIRD BROOKLYN (after 21 years in business), pivoting, new motherhood, Jen's recent move from Brooklyn to Sweden, Scandi design, prints, maximalism, Brooklyn restaurants and bars, Stockholm bakeries, Brutalist food, fashion's over-saturated market, the broken wholesale-retail model, Rachel Comey Fond sweatshirts, Dries van Noten, Max Mara, and her new interior design projects. Kristen also touches on her recent trip to Milan, multi-brand retail and more... Enjoy!