Chuck + Vilma present
The FactoryRunway
A podcast about how fashion is designed, made, shown and owned. The runway is the ending. We are interested in what came before it.
Trailer
The doors open here.
The classroom, printer, cutting table, sewing floor and runway. This hosted preview remains available until the Riverside or YouTube embed is released.
The premise
Fashion is usually shown after the labor disappears. Each episode starts earlier, with the people, machines, decisions, compromises and business realities that turn an idea into a garment.
The factory experience
From design to runway.
Design
The idea becomes instructions.
Color moves from screen to fabric.
Cut
Every line becomes a physical decision.
Sew
Construction tests the design.
Deliver
The garment enters the world.
The hosts
Chuck + Vilma
Chuck Coleman
Photographer, brand builder and producer. Chuck follows an idea from its first impression to the finished campaign and asks whether the business behind it makes sense.
Vilma Biliene
Model, producer and creative partner. Vilma brings the model’s eye and the producer’s discipline to fit, movement, presentation and the decisions a camera will not let you hide.
A separate King of Steam project
Subject Zero
Research, containment and control. Subject Zero remains in its own yellow-and-black visual world and follows what survives when a digital concept becomes fabric and has to live on a body.
Latest from Riverside
The Factory Runway Podcast with Chuck + Vilma
Watch the latest conversation from The Factory Runway, recorded and produced on Riverside.
Listen and watch
The archive is open.
52 episodes of Mind Speak, The Search. Everything we do around the world, from the factory floor to the train from Vienna to Chur. Watch right here.
Guests and callers
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Pitch a guest, send a question, share a production lesson, or ask about The Factory Runway and the learning center.
