Gok Wan
Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010
English - February 07, 2010 11:15 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 126 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture interview entrepreneurship business health entrepreneur leadership comedy news politics culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Kirsty Young's castaway is the stylist Gok Wan.
Dispensing fashion advice and hugs in equal measure, he aims, he says, to 'make women feel like women, not like turkeys'.
Yet although he made his name as a stylist, his special talent isn't for fashion, but for gaining people's trust. He understands only too well the emotional journey he is asking women to make; the first person he had to transform was himself, and that, he says, is very much work in progress.
Record: The Promise
Book: Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey
Luxury: Lip balm.