Douglas Stuart

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201 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 May

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd · 9 May 2026 podcast

And suddenly realizing the power of clothing and democracy where everybody wears something, what is part of a culture.

And I really loved that.

That used to give me such a thrill when I would see my things everywhere.

And sometimes when I'm in an audience now and I sort of look out and I feel a little bit nervous, I have a joke to myself.

I think, how many people in this audience have worn the underwear that you designed?

And that sort of is a bit like my version of picturing people naked.

I designed everything as a knitwear expert.

Yeah, I designed, yeah, lots and lots of underwear.

And one of the very funny things is when you're fitting underwear on a model, you know, you've got to essentially make the garment fit as well as you can.

But you've also got to do it without ever approaching or touching the model.

And so a lot of my sort of early design days was just pointing at people's crotches and asking someone to take an inch out of it or, you know, to make it fit a little bit better around the high waist.

Yeah, I've designed everything.

Oh, I think this is why I write everything is because I feel like two very disconnected people.

I don't think the boy that I was could imagine that this kind of life I'm living now is possible, that I can spend all day with books and then have a husband who talks about art all night.

And just the real sort of privilege of that is something that

you know, younger me couldn't have even dreamt of in his wildest dreams.

I'm often asked, what would you say to your younger self?

And my answer to that is I wouldn't because he would sort of look at me as though I was an alien that had landed from another planet.

And so, so much of my writing is trying to connect those parts of my life because they feel like they belong to two different people.

Thank you, Terry.

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