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Beyond flannel and Birkenstocks: Local designers and a stylist on Vermont fashion

A fun-colored mannequin inside The Vault Collective in Burlington. Today, we'll discuss what exactly is Vermont fashion and style.
Andrea Laurion
A fun-colored mannequin inside The Vault Collective in Burlington. Today, we'll discuss what exactly is Vermont fashion and style.

It's Fashion Week in New York, when designers, models and buyers fill the city for runway shows and parties. Vermont's got style too — despite what some naysayers might think.

Vermont Edition unpacks "Vermont style" with personal stylist Lisa Samsom of Vermont Wardrobe Styling, designer Sam Zollman of Slow Process in Burlington, and Cyrus Brooks of Muriel’s of Vermont in Grand Isle, which makes sweaters out of local fibers. Plus, multimedia artist and clothing designer Kelly Butts-Spirito of Burlington on making his New York Fashion Week debut.

Broadcast at noon Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
Andrea Laurion joined Vermont Public as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.