Breed Presents . . . The Podcast with Quentin Jones
Release Date: 05/29/2024
Breed Presents... The Podcast
In this episode of Breed presents… The Podcast our guest is Catherine Fairweather, journalist, travel writer, editor and also a podcaster. Much of Catherine’s professional life has been forged from her love of travel, of discovering new places and cultures and seeing firsthand how other people live. Over the years, Catherine has been a contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveller, Harper’s Bazaar, the Financial Times, Air Mail and The Daily Telegraph. She then began podcasting and now hosts two podcasts: Voices from the Frontline, where she talks to people who work in high-risk...
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Our guest for this edition of Breed Presents… The Podcast is Dylan Jones – writer, journalist, editor, and a man with a love of music. In fact, he’s just released 1975: The Year the World Forgot. Dylan is probably best known as the editor of GQ, a position he took on in 1999 and held for 22 years. He began his career in journalism in the early 1980s, joining i-D Magazine and rapidly rising to become its editor, while also working as a contributing editor at The Face. Post GQ, Dylan has worked for The Observer and The Sunday Times and was editor-in-chief at...
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In this edition of Breed Presents… The Podcast we’re talking to someone who it could easily be argued has had more influence on the cultural capital of London than any other individual in recent history – London’s Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries Justine Simons OBE. She was given that title by London Mayor Sadiq Khan in 2016, but she’d already been at the heart of support for the creative world under the previous two mayors, since 2002. Some of the projects she's overseen are: Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, founding the World...
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Our guest for this episode is artist and illustrator, Fee Greening. Fee usually works with a dip pen and ink technique to create pieces that look simultaneously contemporary and steeped in the world of illuminated manuscripts, folklore and mythology. I sat down with her in person to discuss her career to date as well as her new book, an illustrated edition of Katharine Briggs’ Dictionary of Fairies which will be published by Octopus on the 11th September 2025. Pre-order Dictionary of Fairies at . Fee's Fee's
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A few years back and the printed version of Breed Presents... The Podcast, we talked to Yolanda Edwards, founder and editor of YOLO Journal. YOLO Journal is a quarterly magazine that revels in the beauty of traveling to new places, focusing first on the photography and then on words in the form of personal stories and tips relating to each location. The magazine is very much a personal project as Yolanda is its founder, publisher and editor as well as a contributor, and is a coming together of much of her previous experience that experience includes two periods working at Condé Nast...
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For this episode we’re very pleased to be talking to Marina Willer, at Pentagram London. Marina was born in Brazil, to artist parents, who encouraged an early interest in design and the visual arts. This eventually led her to move to London, where she studied graphic design at the Royal College of Art. During her design career, she has been central to brand identity work. Her first love, however, has always been film, and she has pursued a parallel career as a filmmaker. Her first feature film was the documentary ‘Red Trees’ which came out in 2017 and used the story of...
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Today's guest on Breed Presents... The Podcast has been a designer for British luxury clothes brand Sunspel. After studying fashion and business at the University of Brighton, David embarked on his career as a menswear designer at COS, soon finding his way into his senior role at Sunspel, where he spent four years as creative director. He's recentered his role more on the product side of things as the design director. Our chat takes us into discussing what goes into leading the creative side of things, and also developing a product of a brand steeped in heritage, craft and...
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At Breed, Elizabeth Goodspeed is best known to us as the US editor-at-large for It’s Nice That, the global platform run by creatives for creatives. She’s also an independent, multidisciplinary designer, art director, writer and educator. After completing a dual degree in neuroscience and graphic design at RISD, Elizabeth began her career with an internship at Pentagram in New York before going before going to to work at The Whitney Museum of American Art, RoAndCo before rejoining Pentagram in a full time positon. Since 2020 she's been freelance and has collaborated with...
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In today’s episode of Breed Presents... The Podcast we’re talking to Rasha Kalil, who is a photographer and Creative Director of the Financial Times’ How To Spend It magazine. Born in Beirut Rasha returned to London to study at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2008 with an MA in Communication Art & Design. Since graduating she has worked for Vogue UK, Dazed & Confused, and ES Magazine, and co-founded art direction studio Barbara Creative. But it’s her work as an artist that has brought Rasha most attention. It brings together photography, text, video and...
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For the first episode of Breed Presents... The Podcast we spoke to Sarah Andelman, the founder of the Parisian store Colette, known for its mix of streetwear, high fashion and lifestyle products, finally closed its doors. Since it closed in 2017 there have been pop-ups, collaborations, and more via her brand consultancy Just An Idea. In 2021, she launched Just An Idea Books, which focuses on publishing works which Sarah describes as delivering ‘a high dose of wonder’. So far, a couple of dozen beautifully designed books have been published, including works by photographers...
info_outlineToday's episode features someone we’re already familiar with — Quentin Jones.
The daughter of architects, Quentin studied Philosophy at Cambridge, before taking an M.A. in Illustration at Central Saint Martins. Straight out of college, she began building a career as an artist, photographer, and filmmaker, taking in clients like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Vogue.
We’ve been working with Quentin at Breed since 2018, and the main focus of our chat is on our area of interest – her art. Though we also touch on her creative heritage, her love affair with fashion, the difference between living and working in New York vs. London, and more.