How to Break Into Fashion, with Industry Commentator Jack Savoie

If you think you have to move to New York or LA to make it in fashion, this episode says otherwise.

Jack Savoie joins us from Denver to talk about building a fashion career — and a viral following — without uprooting your life. We get into how a fake Manolo Blahnik callout on TikTok caught Bethenny Frankel's attention and took him from 20K to 67K followers overnight, why he still works full-time as a buyer at A.Line while creating content on the side, and how he broke the news that Sabrina Carpenter was wearing Dior at Coachella before Vogue's own exclusive dropped. We also talk about his path from Nordstrom shoe sales to designer buying, the "Shoes of the Past" series that turned fashion nostalgia into a cultural moment, and his advice for anyone trying to break into the industry without an internship or a big city zip code.

In this episode, we get into:

• How Jack built a career in fashion while staying based in Denver, and why he doesn't think you need to live in New York or LA to make it in the industry
• The story behind his viral Manolo Blahnik video — how he spotted a fake shoe in a Bethenny Frankel TikTok and grew from 20K to 67K followers in under 24 hours
• His path from selling shoes at Nordstrom to becoming a buyer at boutique retailer A.Line
• How "Shoes of the Past," his series on discontinued cult shoes like the YSL Eiffel Tower cage boot and the Isabel Marant Beckett wedge, became his biggest content wave
• What it's actually like balancing a full-time buying job with a content career, and how he manages burnout
• How he broke the news that Sabrina Carpenter wore Dior at Coachella before Vogue's own exclusive was published
• His biggest recent splurge — a surprise Birkin 30 in Rouge H from his longtime Hermès sales associate — and why he waits months before wearing new purchases
• The brands and designers he thinks are doing the best work right now, including Chanel, Dior, and Kallmeyer
• His current red carpet favorites, from Teyana Taylor and Margot Robbie to Sombr's fashion-forward run this year
• His advice for anyone trying to break into fashion without a traditional industry job or big-city move

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