Name: Isaac Mizrahi on Style, Regrets, and the Perfect Pair of Pumps | The Good Buy | Harper's BAZAAR
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And I encourage you not to overlook a bad pump.

I think you should look straight at it and get rid of it.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to The Goodbye, a new podcast from Harper's Bazaar where we invite celebrities, designers, models, and tastemakers to talk shop.

What they buy, where they got it, and why it matters.

And I am Leah Chernikoff, and this is Harper's Bazaar's The Goodbye.

Would you like to tell me about your goodbye this week,  Oh, God.

Okay, actually, I have really been suffering from a couple of months of bad sleep.

And I always find that around- Mattress frame, the whole deal.

I think it's time to upgrade the whole thing.

I think I came to New York and I have had the same bed since I moved to seven years ago.

This is like one of the hardest things to find.

Well, I research a lot of, I research and I read a lot of reviews and I try and find out what other people like.

So I went over to Google and I searched best bed frame.

And I like the Thuma one because you're able to put it together with no tools.

And I am bad at putting together even the most simple of Ikea furniture.

And I made the big girl jump from a queen to a king bed.

I'm gonna set it off with some brand new sheets and it's gonna be a cozy fall slash winter in my brand new bed.

Do you wanna know my theory of like one of the things as you get older is like, we all think about putting together our outfits but like how you put together your bed is like one of the sort of like level up of grownup fashion kind of like thinking about like the mattress, the size of it, the frame, the pillows, the sheets that like all the layers getting it all together is like, yeah.

I think about that episode of Sex and the City where Miranda's changing her bed sheets and hoping that it brings a better bed karma.

I feel like that is like something that we don't talk about, but it's true.

You've gotta dress your bed for the life you want.

Okay, so Leah, what is your goodbye of the week?

Okay, well, listen, I haven't purchased yet which is also very classic me in relation to you.

You know, I'm very nervous to like hit buy but you know, I love to like add to cart and search and search and search.

So I'm on the hunt for the perfect gray crew neck.

You know, our fearless leader, Samira Nasser, Harper's Bazaar's editor in chief.

She talked about in her newsletter, this like gray crew neck from Phoebe Philo that she was wearing all over Paris Fashion Week.

So I'm going to Google and I'm doing like to, you know, if you say shop gray crew neck, like it's gonna give you like a much better sort of selection of results.

And you can also see, you can see like sales and sort of like track prices.

So I'm sort of looking at like the ones that I like the most, but also seeing like, is the price gonna move a little bit, you know, because sales are starting to happen.

But then sometimes like prices like inch up before they drop down.

So I'm, you know, I'm courting all these things.

And what one have you found is a contender?

Okay, well, I'm watching a men's gray cashmere crew neck from J.Crew.

I did almost buy one at the row sample sale and you probably would have told me to do it.

I mean, you know, we love a sample sale, but we also love conscious spending.

So that's, you know, and also J.Crew has incredible quality cashmere, so.

Yeah, so that and then Uniqlo is like pops up, but I am looking men's like, because I think I will like the way that like the weight I think is really important and the neck and then also just the boxiness.

This week, we have an American fashion icon, one whose impact can still be felt today, tomorrow, going forward.

He is a designer, a cabaret star, a TV personality, an oracle of all things fashion.

And lately you can see him on TikTok where he is giving a peek into his collections of everything from Belgian loafers to kitchen cookware to handbags.

So we can think of no one else we would rather talk fashion and personal style with.

Isaac, you have been part of the, I mean, actually you've been part of the fashion industry almost since the day you were born.

And then I actually, I went to performing arts high school as an actor when I was 13 or 14, however old you are.

And then when I graduated there, I was just afraid.

Show business is such a scary business, right?

And so I kind of diverted and went into fashion because I was already making clothes and sketching and things.

And then I became, I just went directly from Parsons to Perry Ellis.

And then I had a few jobs and then I opened my own company in 1986.

It's a long time ago.  Had my first show in 87.

And what are some of your memories from that first show?

Some of my memories from that first, you know, it's funny.

It's like, I don't remember anything about the actual show because I was so focused on the details of what was going on.

And in those days, it was literally, I'm not kidding.

The loft that the show was in was so small.

It wasn't a grand, but I had, you know, 15 or 18 models and we were jammed into the tiniest little space while they were changing.

And, you know, the thing is what people don't understand about the old days is you would have girls changing into seven or eight different outfits in the course of a fashion show.

And with no lags, like you had to have someone on the runway at all times, as opposed to today, where if you have like, you know, 70 looks, you have 70 girls.