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Max Siegelman Talks Fashion & Sports at Super Bowl 59
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2/7/2025
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Live from Radio Row, SportsGrid's coverage of Super Bowl 59 continues. Joe
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Lisi with Max Siegelman, fashion designer. Talk to me about the atmosphere here.
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I've been asking everyone. New Orleans is a great city and obviously with a great
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Super Bowl on Sunday. Yeah, I'm excited to be here. I've been in New Orleans a few
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times, but obviously not for a Super Bowl. Energy is awesome. This is my first Radio
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Row, so this is an amazing experience. So I feel awesome. Happy to be here.
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When you talk about fashion designing, right, I mean you have a brand and a
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product and knowing how athletes are in terms of certain products, I mean this
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has got to be great for you. Just networking and potentially showcasing
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everything that you're all about. Yeah, I mean this is amazing. This is our third Super
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Bowl in a row. We've been with Don Julio for the last three Super Bowls. This year
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we're here with Don Julio and Papa's as a hometown loving brand. Right. Doing our
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collaboration that releases tomorrow. Have a big event down here tomorrow. But
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just fashion in the last handful of years has become a huge piece of the
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intersection of culture where sports and music and fashion kind of collide. And
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we've had a number of NFL players wear our stuff. We've made custom stuff for a
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bunch of NFL players. So it's just an amazing thing to see and obviously the
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culmination of a season and just being down here to see it and be a part of it.
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I love fashion as well and obviously appearance matters, especially in the
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media industry. Was this always a passion of yours to get involved in
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terms of designing and starting your own brand? No. So now my creative director is
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actually my fiance, which is the more important title that she has. It makes
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us look good. I was fortunate enough to start this five, six months, maybe if that,
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before we started dating and she has a fashion background. So before that I was
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just creating more streetwear pieces and now I would consider us a contemporary
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luxury brand and where we've kind of been from year one to year now and the
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iterations that we've gone through. But I think fashion for me is, I think the
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coolest part of it is, like I said, is at the epicenter of culture. And I think
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I've always been fascinated. I'm an athlete myself. I played soccer all
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through school. But I think the being in the center of culture and seeing the
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different things culminate together has just been awesome to be a part of.
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It's interesting because my girlfriend went to FIT. So I've kicked it up a notch
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from the dating game. So that's what it is. I mean, is there a certain niche in
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terms of men's fashion that you like, like jackets, blazers more so
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than maybe shirts or just designing overall? Yeah, I think my like first love
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in fashion was definitely streetwear. I think it was like I definitely bought a
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ton of sneakers and hats and like more on the collecting side and wearing. I
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would never like buy something big. I can't ever wear it. That was never my
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thing. And I think now from the last four years of being in the industry and
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understanding the sweat and tears and hard work that goes into it and creating
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it from scratch, I think like my love for it has definitely evolved
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tremendously. And being able to design things that look and feel on brand and
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aesthetically appropriate for us has been one of the coolest things to do. And
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it goes into, I think as well, the collaborations that we've been able to do
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with different sports teams and being able to tell our brand story alongside
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of them has been an amazing opportunity. We've had a number of different athletes
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that have started their own brand and I asked each one, what did sports
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teach you? Because in terms of starting your own brand, designing, there has
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to be roadblocks or adversity. Every day. Right. So what has sports taught you to
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maybe push you through where, you know, to get to a different level or to get to a
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certain maybe aspect as it relates in terms of the designing game? Yeah, I think
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just like in sports and when you have a game plan, it's never going to go exactly
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what your game plan is, right? So I think you need to figure out how to be pivot
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and flexible and what's the right next move when something doesn't go right
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because it's guaranteed that it's not going to go right. I think that's what
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sports taught me, not even even before starting my own brand, just how to adapt,
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how to be flexible, how to pivot quick to continue on the right path. And there's
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no blueprint in creating a fashion brand. There's no blueprint in knowing
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what's the next thing that's going to happen, good or bad, but I think being
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able to adapt is the biggest thing. Do you have a plan in place for whoever wins to
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potentially design something for the winner? No, I mean, Travis can call him if
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he wants. Yeah, he's worn our stuff before and that's always amazing to see the
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different guys who wear our stuff, whether it's they're wearing it out just
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a dinner or wherever or in a tunnel walk and it's picked up on a bunch of
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Instagram pages and PR. But no, I mean, I think, sure, the Eagles and the Chiefs,
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they could both call me if they want, whoever wins and we're game. I think the
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biggest thing for us anytime we do a collaboration or a special project is we
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get to stay true to our story and stay authentic and I think that that's what's
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helped us break through. I always say it's the easiest time to start a brand
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but the hardest time to stay consistent and stay around for a while. I think
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someone just told me the average time a new brand sticks around is four or five
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years and we're just kind of breaking now into year five. So stay tuned,
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but I think we're ready. It's sort of the life of an NFL running back per se, right?
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They have a shelf life of four to five and you've overcome that. That's
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incredible and you talk about a lot of young entrepreneurs. You're young in
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heart. I look young, I like that. You're a young guy and so what can you give to the
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younger generation in terms of, you know, just the knowledge that you've acquired?
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Maybe somebody out there wanting to start a brand or take the leap to get
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into developing their own business. What would be the biggest piece of advice you
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can give them? Just go do it. Just go start and know that it's not going to go
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exactly how you think it's going to go and if you stay consistent and you keep
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going even though and things are not going well and you kind of, that's the
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way to break through. I think it's so easy just to not do it or so easy maybe
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to start and the first thing go wrong and you're just like, yeah, whatever. It's not
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for me. Just like if you really want it and you stay consistent, you'll end up
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getting there. Interesting. Great stuff from Max Siegelman. We'll be right back.
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Thanks for having me.
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