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Episode 020 ✿  Leaving the TV & Film Industry to Run a Slow Fashion Business ft. Ruby Wortis of Shop Rudie

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This episode is an interview with Ruby Wortis who is the creator/designer of Shop Rudie, an slow fashion clothing brand. Shop Rudie creates fun, colorful designs- most notably dresses. They're super fun and whimsical pieces, and the creator Ruby takes inspiration from the fashion history of counter culture and the “ intersection of political messaging and personal style". I got to talk to her about how she started Shop Rudie during the pandemic and eventually left her full time job as a producer in film and tv to run Shop Rudie, her process, a bit about fashion history and her influences. 

Topics discussed:

-Ruby introduces herself

-Ruby’s experience with creativity growing up- having punk rock parents, drawing, theatre, music and more

-Being grounded as a teenager and connecting with her creativity

-Her creative interests combining creativity and technicality, such as sewing

-How she started sewing during the pandemic

-Being interested in comedy, film, and tv in college and going to film school

-Working in the film and television industry

-The pandemic and its impact on Ruby’s career

-Realizing she wasn’t as interested in production anymore

-Being afraid to quit her full time job

-Actually quitting because she had to in order to continue Shop Rudie

-Her and her partner’s cars being stolen the same day she quit

-Her first day working for herself

-Realizing she needed a break

-The importance of rest and both our experiences with that

-The importance of a morning routine

-Artist dates as mentioned in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way

-Needing real/regular life experiences to inform your creative practice

-Methods of generating and keeping track of ideas

-Ruby’s passion for fashion history of counter culture and how it influences her work

-The history of checkerboard in the 70s and 80s

-Ruby’s history of ancestors during labor right’s movements, as communists, activists and rebels

-Ethical practices in her business

-Ancestral guidance

-Ruby’s creative process- creating patterns, choosing fabric, editing designs, marketing, etc.

-The frustrations and advantages of not having all the technical sewing/garment making skills

-Her Fall 2022 collection - the process of creating it and her inspirations

-What Ruby likes to do for fun- gardening, spending time with loved ones, and karaoke

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