What Does Romanticizing Vintage Fashion Mean for Modern Designers? with Cody Parks | S14E10

Is Kai Cenat’s VIVET good fashion or great marketing? What is New York Fashion Week actually selling? And when does collecting vintage clothes become your entire personality? Sol and Michael welcome creative director Cody Parks back to Pair of Kings Podcast for an unfiltered conversation about NYFW 2026 and the Spring/Summer 2027 season, celebrity fashion brands, menswear, streetwear, archive fashion and the culture around the clothes. Sol questions the clout-driven coverage of VIVET; Cody shares his experience working with Kai Cenat. The trio debate whether the celebrity name changes how we judge a collection, then get into Kozaburo x EVISU, Thom Browne’s caterpillar heels, N.HOOLYWOOD, Eckhaus Latta, Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs. This is our season’s “integrated fashion” thesis in action: brands expanding into music, books and lifestyle while consumers use clothing to express their interests. Enfants Riches Déprimés (ERD), Miu Miu’s book clubs, Anti Public Library and Heaven by Marc Jacobs become a debate about cultural connection, luxury marketing and belonging. Cody’s beef with Eugene Rabkin and StyleZeitgeist leads into fashion criticism and commercial success. There’s also Aaron Esh at AllSaints, The Devil Wears Prada 2, Fashion’s Night Out, Steven Kolb and the CFDA, PETA’s COS and H&M protests, ethical wool and Grindr’s gay-sheep project. Then Cody explains why he downsized a wardrobe of roughly 800 pieces when he wore around 30. Vintage T-shirts, the Raf Simons Riot