Menswear talk with real texture.
Blamo! treats clothes as a doorway into taste, work, identity, and scene memory. Jeremy Kirkland talks with people in fashion, design, food, music, and culture about how things get made and why they matter.
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Blamo! is a relaxed interview show about fashion, menswear, design, and the culture orbiting all of it. Jeremy Kirkland brings a friendly, inside-baseball energy to conversations with people in fashion, food, music, and culture. The show is casual on the surface. Underneath, it is built on a real appetite for how things are made, why people care, and what gets lost when style becomes only a market signal. Recent episodes spend serious time with footwear, from Grant Stone and Vinny's to the mechanics of welted shoes and the feeling behind a loafer. They also widen quickly. A conversation about a brand can move into music industry experience, creative instinct, parenting, travel, or the strange education of being around different scenes. Blamo! is especially good at connecting product details to human details. A tailor's factory, a mood board, a contrast-collar shirt, a deli name, or a stack of thrift-store CDs can all become part of the same larger conversation about taste. The pace is chatty. The substance is specific. Interviews do not feel over-sanded; they keep the pauses, backchannels, and sidetracks that make a guest sound like a person instead of a quote machine. That looseness is part of the appeal. It gives the show room for small admissions about fit, confidence, loneliness in menswear, and the realities of running a small brand. The Patreon previews and AMA episodes add another layer, with Die, Workwear! conversations about overcoats, watches, the internet, and subscriber questions. Blamo! works for listeners who already know the references, but it is not closed off to curious outsiders. The best episodes make niche culture feel lived-in rather than precious.
Made for: For listeners who care about clothes, footwear, design, independent brands, and the culture around taste. It especially suits people who enjoy casual expert conversation more than polished trend reporting.
What sets it apart: Blamo! stands out by letting niche fashion conversations breathe long enough to reveal the person behind the product. The show treats menswear as craft, memory, business, community, and daily life all at once.
Blamo! is a long-running fashion and culture podcast hosted by Jeremy Kirkland. Since 2016, the show has featured thoughtful, relaxed conversations with designers, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers, exploring fashion, menswear, design, music, and culture beyond the surface.Featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and more — Blamo! is celebrating 10 years of independent conversations about the things we care about.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jeremy Kirkland makes clothing and footwear design approachable by following the practical decisions, skilled labor, and personal histories behind finished products.
Blamo! turns conversations about clothing and footwear into close studies of how products acquire character. Jeremy Kirkland brings informed curiosity to the details, asking people connected to labels such as Grant Stone, Greg Laboratory, and Vinny's about manufacturing,…
A thrift-store CD haul leads to Goodyear welt talk; you'll feel at home if both sound tempting.
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A shoe conversation that turns Goodyear welt machines and mismatched boots into a grounded argument for judging craft by care.
Wyatt Gilmore of Grant Stone joins Blamo! for shoe talk that keeps widening into a sharper question: what do craft labels really prove? The discussion moves from Goodyear welted shoes to the person running the machine, wherever that machine happens to be, then carries the same…
Virgil Nicholas makes Vinny's a story about taste, memory, and trusting the work behind the shoes.
Virgil Nicholas of Vinny's joins Jeremy Kirkland from Copenhagen for a conversation about where the brand came from and how its taste was formed.
A spring wardrobe reset leads into Japanese denim, sandwich-shop identity, and the strange intimacy of being recognized.
Blamo! uses a spring wardrobe reset as a casual way into a wider talk about clothes, sandwiches, and the identity that starts to form around a business.
A sharp conversation about technical formalwear, product judgment, and the path from bape and dunks to Greg Laboratory.
Technical formalwear gives this conversation its frame, but the real subject is how taste becomes product. Greg Jackson moves from growing up in DC to Detroit, from bape and dunks to a serious run at Nike, where he learned what high-level product work asks of a designer.
A measured look at the alpha male aesthetic as history, performance, and editorial argument.
The alpha male aesthetic is framed as a style shaped by politics, money, and technology, stretching from the Greek-statue poses linked to Eugene Sandow to the influencer world around Andrew Tate.
A bespoke tailor weighs creative freedom against the discipline of guiding clients toward clothes with lasting appeal.
Bespoke tailoring is treated here as a matter of judgment, not just a menu of choices. The tailor reflects on the freedom of working independently after years at other firms, while the conversation keeps returning to the responsibility of defining what her version of bespoke…
Bourbon talk, barrel stories, messy good pours.
Bourbon reviews with memory, candor, and community.
Everyday life, thought through together.
A preview of a Patreon-exclusive episode where hosts discuss a cocktail recipe.
The tailor is still in the honeymoon stage.
Derek Guy discusses his Bloomberg article on the 'alpha male aesthetic,' a growing online trend of super jacked men in tight clothes giving clipped self-help imperatives.
Jeremy opens loose and happy.
A preview of a Patreon-exclusive episode where hosts discuss the impact of the internet on menswear, featuring a guest who was featured in a Japanese fashion magazine.
Reese's eggs kick things off.
Derek and Peter answer listener questions about choosing one overcoat and one watch in their second quarterly AMA.
Jeremy Kirkland interviews Hagop Kourounian of Director Fits about his multifaceted platform, creative background, and the relationship between artists and their presentation.
Spring fits are back.
Greg Laboratory feels better the closer you look.
Jeremy Kirkland interviews Luke Walker, founder of L.E.J., about rethinking fit and formality in menswear, the journey from Central Saint Martins to starting his own brand, and how garments earn meaning through wear.
Jeremy Kirkland celebrates 10 years of his podcast Blammo and introduces guests Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris.
A preview of a Patreon-exclusive episode where host Jeremy interviews independent bespoke tailor Nina Penlington about her transition from working at large tailoring houses to running her own company.
A preview of a Patreon-exclusive episode where hosts discuss cosplay and a wedding outfit worn to a ballet.