Hot New Luxury Pet Fashion Brand Revealed
Can a crazy, rich Asian make it in the world of luxury pet fashion? TV star and fashion lover, Crystal Lynn, has launched a luxury pet fashion brand out of Australia that features gorgeous leashes, necklaces and more. Pricey? Yes. A must to land on your fashion radar? Yes! Discover Crystal Lynn’s inspiration, how she segued from the reality tv world to the pet space seamlessly and discover her most precious muse, Manolo Pigmop!
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BIO:
Inspired by the special connection she shares with her beloved dog Manolo, Crystal Lynn embarked on a journey to create Mon Petit Amour Manolo. Manolo, the source of boundless love, ignited Crystal's passion to celebrate the unique bond between pets and their owners. With a focus on integrating our furry family members into every aspect of our lives, Mon Petit Amour Manolo offers a range of products that stand as a testament to the extraordinary love animals share with their humans.
Through Manolo's Little Legacy Foundation and her seat in Pound Paws charity board, Crystal is committed to ensuring every pet lives their best life. Her involvement in Animal Welfare assists stray pets and shelters, promotes education and awareness about pet adoption, provides grants for domestic violence survivors to train their dogs as therapy animals, and supports future medical research for the well-being of canine companions. Crystal encourages all guardians to take a pledge to be their pet's fur-ever human, providing endless amounts of love and care.
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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.
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Announcer: Let's talk pets.
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Jody Teiche: Can a crazy rich Asian make it in the world of luxury pet fashion?
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Jody Teiche: I'm talking about Crystal Lynn, star of the Australian reality show, Sydney's Crazy Rich Asians.
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Jody Teiche: Her love of luxury and her adorable, adopted rescue pup, Manolo Pigmop, inspired this beautiful Australian brand, Mon Petite Amore Manolo.
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Jody Teiche: So we're gonna meet Crystal Lynn in a moment.
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Jody Teiche: We're gonna learn about her brand, and her collection.
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Jody Teiche: But first, we're gonna take a short break from our sponsor.
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Jody Teiche: I'm Jody Teiche, and you're listening to Bark And Swagger, where pet fashion lives.
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Jody Teiche: Welcome back, we have a guest today all the way from Australia on Bark And Swagger, a beautiful star of the reality series Sydney's Crazy Rich Asians.
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Jody Teiche: And she's a fellow animal lover like us.
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Jody Teiche: Crystal in love of her pup, Manolo Pigmop, and of luxury fashion, like us, led her down the path to create Montpetit Amour Manolo, which is a beautiful luxury brand out of Sydney, making combined dog collars and leashes.
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Jody Teiche: Let's learn more.
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Jody Teiche: Welcome, Crystal Lynn.
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Jody Teiche: Welcome to the show.
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Crystal Lynn: Thank you for having me.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah, thank you.
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Jody Teiche: It's my pleasure.
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Jody Teiche: Let's dive in because we're going to have photos of some of your beautiful collars and leashes for people listening to the podcast today to have a look.
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Jody Teiche: Crystal Lynn, what is the inspiration for the brand outside of Manolo?
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Crystal Lynn: So, in various literary works across the different times and cultures, from ancient Greek's Golden Thread of Fate and East Asian Strings of Fate, Red Strings of Fate, there is countless references to the fates of the past life and the soul connection.
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Crystal Lynn: Usually, these tales have the meaning of predestined meetings and unbreakable bond that ties all these souls and individuals together.
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Crystal Lynn: It is said that an invisible thread of fate connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstances.
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Crystal Lynn: This thread may stretch or tangle that you will never break.
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Crystal Lynn: inspired by this, we've created our Golden Signature Golden Leash, a precious gold string that symbolizes and serves as a reminder of the beautiful soul connection between a guardian and the beloved little love.
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Crystal Lynn: Pledge to love, care for, and cherish them to the best of our ability until the end.
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Crystal Lynn: It's not just something that is beautiful.
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Crystal Lynn: We want to have a meaningful piece, almost like a promise accessory for this little, little love that we're going to cherish them and love them forever, no matter what, whether, not just when they're still small and young and cute until they're old.
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Crystal Lynn: It's a symbol of the connection, your connection, that there's something you're behind.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, that's beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: That is beautiful, Crystal Lynn.
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Jody Teiche: Thank you for sharing that.
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Jody Teiche: They are very, very beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: These, they're like, you're welcome.
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Jody Teiche: They're connected collars and leashes.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Talk a little bit about the design of them.
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Jody Teiche: And also I know that they're cruelty free.
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Jody Teiche: So talk a little bit about that.
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Crystal Lynn: Yeah.
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Crystal Lynn: So we have it's a gold-plated metal, and we have, instead of real leather, we put vegan leather because we're for animals, not from animals.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah, we are going to release the collars.
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Crystal Lynn: We actually haven't released the collars.
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Crystal Lynn: We're going to call it necklaces because it's just for leisurely wear for necklaces instead of collars.
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Crystal Lynn: Sometimes I feel like small dogs can get pulled too much with the collars.
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Crystal Lynn: Like I've been thinking quite thoroughly with the collars and necklaces.
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Crystal Lynn: So we're going to call it necklaces.
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Crystal Lynn: And for the leashes, it's adjustable.
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Crystal Lynn: So it's like from their heart pulse to your pulse.
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Crystal Lynn: Yeah.
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Crystal Lynn: So that is the designs.
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Jody Teiche: Beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: And just sort of describing a little bit what I've seen is it looks like a very high quality vegan leather that's woven in and out of the gold links of the chain.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah.
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Crystal Lynn: Yes.
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Jody Teiche: And then you also have these beautiful little charms that you can attach to the necklace, to the leash, because you have that ability with the links of the chain.
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Jody Teiche: Tell us a little bit about the charms.
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Crystal Lynn: I'm so well when, so there's little charms that you can add on.
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Crystal Lynn: And but I remember back in the days, I used to buy the twillies for Manolo and I thought, would tie it around his neck as a scarf.
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Crystal Lynn: But I thought it's actually a beautiful, beautiful thing that you can add.
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Crystal Lynn: So if you have a kind of a designer or like any other, like ribbons or twillies and things like that, you can add it on.
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Crystal Lynn: There is an extra loop connection for the leash that you can tie a ribbon with your twillies.
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Crystal Lynn: If you want your Hermes Chanel or whatever it is, then you can add it on to match whatever outfit suits you.
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Jody Teiche: Well, that's cool.
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Jody Teiche: I like that.
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Jody Teiche: So what are twillies?
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Jody Teiche: Is that an Australian terminology?
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Jody Teiche: I've never heard of twillies.
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Crystal Lynn: I think twilly is an Hermes term.
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Crystal Lynn: I think, I can't remember.
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Crystal Lynn: The Dior is called Midsa.
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Crystal Lynn: I don't like, they're the little thin scarves that you kind of tie around your bags.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, yes.
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Jody Teiche: Okay.
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Jody Teiche: Perfect.
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Crystal Lynn: Yes, yes.
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Crystal Lynn: Sorry.
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Jody Teiche: Got it, got it, got it.
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Jody Teiche: And I just learned a new terminology.
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Jody Teiche: Thank you for sharing that.
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Jody Teiche: And I also saw that you have really cute initials that have, what is it, like crystals or rhinestones, but very delicate, dainty.
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Crystal Lynn: Yes.
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Crystal Lynn: So you can add whatever ABCs that you want for your baby and yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Okay.
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Jody Teiche: Wonderful.
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Jody Teiche: So what are some of your favorite colors right now?
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Jody Teiche: And how is that?
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Jody Teiche: Has that informed the brand?
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Crystal Lynn: It's actually, it was such a hard color to pick.
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Crystal Lynn: So that's why we launch about seven colors straight away, because we wanted to go, in the beginning, we wanted to go for neutrals, but then there were so many requests for the pinks and the blues and all that stuff.
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Crystal Lynn: So it's, but I personally love the neutrals.
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Crystal Lynn: It goes with everything, and it's quite classic, and yes.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, tell us a little bit, so listeners can know what different colors you've selected for this initial run.
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Crystal Lynn: So we have white, beige, kind of a caramel brown.
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Crystal Lynn: There is a lovely ballerina pink, and a, I call it the Pound Boss color because it's similar to Pound Boss logo.
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Crystal Lynn: And it's like a teal, teal, light teal color, and a bright kind of, we call it Santorini blue, so it's like the, the dirt of those, those blue Santorini.
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Jody Teiche: Rich, yes, rich blue, like a cobalt almost.
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Crystal Lynn: Yeah, a cobalt.
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Crystal Lynn: And we have a, just a pure, double-linked gold-plated leash and collar.
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Jody Teiche: Right, perfect.
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Jody Teiche: Now, when you say the collar's a necklace, can you take your dog out for walks using this?
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Jody Teiche: And is this really only for small dogs like Manolo, or can larger dogs wear this, or is it not quite sturdy enough for a larger dog?
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Crystal Lynn: We're still testing it and I think it should be okay for adults 10 kilos and under.
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Crystal Lynn: Oh, what is the equivalent of the pounds?
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Crystal Lynn: Oh God, I should have, what is the pounds conversion?
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Crystal Lynn: Let me check.
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Jody Teiche: I'm gonna tell you right now, 10 kilos is 22 pounds.
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Crystal Lynn: 22 pounds, it's up to 22 pounds, but we're still testing.
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Crystal Lynn: It's a proof up to 10 kilos, but we're still testing for a little bit more.
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Jody Teiche: Got you.
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Crystal Lynn: And we may later, we will release more for bigger dogs, but for now, let's be concentrating on the smaller dogs.
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Jody Teiche: Perfect.
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Jody Teiche: So I wanna sort of jump to another track for a moment and talk a little bit about Sydney's Crazy Rich Asians, obviously inspired by the very, very popular hit movie, Crazy Rich Asians.
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Jody Teiche: How did this come into your life?
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Jody Teiche: And were you an actress before that?
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Jody Teiche: Or you playing yourself on this show?
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Jody Teiche: Was it just kind of serendipity?
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Jody Teiche: And, you know, how did it come into your life?
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Crystal Lynn: It was kind of a serendipity.
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Crystal Lynn: I think the producer, one day a producer just called me and said, hi, you're actually quite perfect for this role.
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Crystal Lynn: And I was slightly reluctant, but they said, oh, you know, we can showcase the charities here that you're involved in and all that stuff.
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Crystal Lynn: And I thought they pulled my heart string with the doggies and things like that.
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Crystal Lynn: And I said, you know what?
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Crystal Lynn: Let's give this a cry.
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Jody Teiche: How many seasons now?
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Crystal Lynn: We stopped at the first season.
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Crystal Lynn: There was some, it didn't go, it didn't really go quite far.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, okay.
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Jody Teiche: I'm sorry to hear that.
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Jody Teiche: So in your personal life, like before you launched Mon Petite, what was your life like?
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Crystal Lynn: I do a lot of work for the animal welfare, things like that.
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Crystal Lynn: I'm a volunteer.
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Crystal Lynn: I'm a board member for Pound Balls charity as well.
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Crystal Lynn: And now we're opening Manolo's Little Legacy, which she's going to help with animal welfare as well.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah, I have a little business here and there and with my sister and yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, lovely, lovely, lovely.
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Jody Teiche: Okay, we're going to jump back on to the fashion track, which all of us here really love.
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Jody Teiche: Why did you start with the necklaces and leashes only?
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Jody Teiche: And are there plans to branch out into clothing, you know, other parts of the pet fashion space?
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Crystal Lynn: Yes, we are planning to do that.
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Crystal Lynn: So why did we start off as the, like, leashes and necklaces?
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Crystal Lynn: Because the first inspiration was that the gold string of fate.
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Crystal Lynn: And we wanted to make that into, I think I wanted to launch a brand that is not just beautiful, but has a meaning and has an impact in the pet's life as well.
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Crystal Lynn: Instead of just fashion, it's fashion for a reason, I guess.
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Jody Teiche: I love that.
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Jody Teiche: I love that.
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Jody Teiche: And we certainly can all relate to how much we love our animals and what an important and deep part they play in our lives.
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Jody Teiche: So, totally, totally love that.
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Jody Teiche: So, is there a particular type of dog fashion or style trend that you're loving right now?
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Jody Teiche: And does Manolo ever wear clothes?
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Crystal Lynn: Manolo has a lot of clothes.
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Crystal Lynn: I think I bought so many dog clothes here in LA that I may have to ship half of it home.
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Jody Teiche: Oh my goodness.
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Jody Teiche: Well, it's a great city to buy dog clothes, that's for sure, to buy any clothes.
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Crystal Lynn: Yes, yes, yes.
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Crystal Lynn: That's half of it in mine, half of it is Manolo's.
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Crystal Lynn: I think there's not many male clothes.
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Crystal Lynn: So, he mainly has all of the Ralph Lauren jackets and little polos.
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Crystal Lynn: I think he has every single color.
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Crystal Lynn: Oh my goodness.
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Crystal Lynn: We have a lady in Spain that Jossie's custom made tux for a special occasion, which is cute.
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Jody Teiche: Oh my goodness.
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Crystal Lynn: Oh my goodness.
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Jody Teiche: You have to send some photos of Manolo wearing clothes.
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Crystal Lynn: I will.
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Jody Teiche: Is he with you now?
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Crystal Lynn: No, he's not because-
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Jody Teiche: He has a very long flight too.
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Crystal Lynn: Yeah, and to be able to come back, he has to have the rabies shot and stuff like that.
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Jody Teiche: I'm glad you decided not to do that.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Good for you.
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Jody Teiche: Okay.
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Jody Teiche: So we are going to hold that thought.
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Jody Teiche: We're going to take a short break from our sponsors, but don't go away.
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Jody Teiche: We're going to hear about one of Sydney's influencer pups, Coco, who's recently touched down on our shores.
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Jody Teiche: Where?
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Jody Teiche: LA, of course.
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Jody Teiche: So refresh that beverage, get cozy, and we'll be right back.
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Jody Teiche: Welcome back.
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Jody Teiche: If you've just joined, you're listening to Bark And Swagger on Pet Life Radio.
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Jody Teiche: I'm Jody Teich, your host.
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Jody Teiche: This is your destination for pet fashion.
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Jody Teiche: And we're talking today with Crystal Lynn, star of the Australian reality series, Sydney's Crazy Rich Asians, and founder and head fashion person at Mon Petit Amor Manolo, a beautiful fashion brand out of Sydney, Crystal Lynn.
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Jody Teiche: In Sydney, Manolo runs with some fight-profile pups.
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Jody Teiche: And Coco is one of them.
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Jody Teiche: I understand she just moved with her mom to Los Angeles.
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Jody Teiche: Tell us a bit about Manolo's life.
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Jody Teiche: What is a typical day for him?
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Jody Teiche: What's Coco's story?
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Jody Teiche: Are you visiting Coco when you're out in LA right now?
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Crystal Lynn: Yes, we actually, we saw her two days ago.
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Crystal Lynn: She took us to a few pet boutiques.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah, it's really lovely.
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Crystal Lynn: I think she's adjusting well.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Good, good.
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Jody Teiche: She's living the good life in Los Angeles, I would imagine.
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Crystal Lynn: Yeah, and we are tempted to really move to Los Angeles after being here for a week or so.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, so we could be the first to hear that you may be relocating to LA.
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Crystal Lynn: Maybe.
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Crystal Lynn: Maybe we're thinking.
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Jody Teiche: That sounds lovely.
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Jody Teiche: So what's a day in Manolo's life like, typically?
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Crystal Lynn: She doesn't wake up until about 1030 to 11, 11-ish a.m.
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Crystal Lynn: He's a little bit of a lazy one.
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Crystal Lynn: He doesn't wake up until his breakfast is served.
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Jody Teiche: Of course.
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Crystal Lynn: Which is an omelette with some chickens or beef, and it has to be organic.
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Crystal Lynn: And he's a little bit of a spoiled one.
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Crystal Lynn: I don't know if that's in part.
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Crystal Lynn: And then we would go for a stroll in the park, and while I get my coffee and do a little bit of emails, he'll sniff about, and then we either would go to a lunch, we'll go get ready and go to a lunch meeting or an event here and there.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah, that's nearly every day.
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Jody Teiche: So he's a little executive as well as a doggy.
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Crystal Lynn: Yeah, I would call him.
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Crystal Lynn: He's a real CEO, actually.
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Crystal Lynn: Got you.
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Jody Teiche: Got you.
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Jody Teiche: Got you.
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Jody Teiche: Love it.
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Jody Teiche: And I understand that you have a charitable component for the brand, giving back, and makes sense being that you are involved in animal rescue rights.
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Jody Teiche: Tell us a little bit about that.
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Crystal Lynn: So we are in LinkedIn because I'm the board member for CountBalls.
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Crystal Lynn: And now we're creating a charitable foundation called Manolo's Little Legacy, which is really cute.
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Crystal Lynn: And Manolo's Little Legacy will help fund some rescue shelters.
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Crystal Lynn: Rescue shelters, and then we're going to help fund to train dogs into therapy dogs for women that have been in domestic violence cases.
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Crystal Lynn: And so we can help them stabilize as much as we can to have a therapy dog near them because God knows how much they've suffered.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah, it's not an easy subject, but I think it's something that is helpful.
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Crystal Lynn: And yeah, it's the least that we can do.
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Crystal Lynn: And we're going to help out with the Children's Hospital as well, which is with dancer dogs and providing therapy dogs for kids that's in the hospital, which is not doing well.
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Crystal Lynn: And because studies, the studies prove in that kids heal better when there's dogs around.
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Crystal Lynn: And of course, when their immune system is okay.
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Jody Teiche: Absolutely.
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Jody Teiche: And you know what the joy that being around a dog, if you love dogs, gives these children and women, battered women, that joy releases happy hormones and boosts the immune system.
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Jody Teiche: So it makes the immune system stronger.
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Jody Teiche: Yes.
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Crystal Lynn: Beautiful thing.
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Jody Teiche: It just seems very lovely that you have chosen women in need, children in need to help provide the funds to train and rescue animals, to be therapy dogs.
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Jody Teiche: And I love that.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah.
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Crystal Lynn: Yeah.
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Crystal Lynn: And we have, and then we're going to hearse.
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Crystal Lynn: Like, what we're planning to do is we're planning to hearse little events where we can kind of spread awareness, not to, how would I say it?
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Crystal Lynn: So I think the next event, what we're going to do is in Australia, there is this thing called Melbourne Cup, which is horse racing event.
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Crystal Lynn: And I don't think it's particularly nice to the horses because there's a lot of injury and there's a lot of euthanasia and things like that for the horses.
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Crystal Lynn: And what we're planning to do is we're planning to host a, instead of a Melbourne Cup, we're going to do a puppy cup.
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Crystal Lynn: So we're going to kind of invite people to come in instead of betting on horses and, you know, getting dressed up for the horses being put down and things like that.
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Crystal Lynn: As a result of Melbourne Cup, usually, sorry, we're going to host a puppy cup.
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Crystal Lynn: So we're going to have rescue dogs who's going to get adopted first.
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Crystal Lynn: And we're going to play around with that.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, that's lovely.
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Jody Teiche: That's lovely.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Good luck with that.
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Crystal Lynn: Thank you.
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Jody Teiche: Yes.
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Jody Teiche: Tell people where they can find you and your brand.
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Jody Teiche: I feel like we're talking to you very early in your brand's existence.
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Jody Teiche: And that's exciting because, you know, we can help turn people on to something new and fresh and beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: So tell people where they can find you, your social media, your website, et cetera.
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Crystal Lynn: Yes.
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Crystal Lynn: So our social media is Montpetitamormonolo.
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Crystal Lynn: That's Instagram.
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Crystal Lynn: And we have montpetitamormonolo.com.
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Crystal Lynn: And you can, yeah, you can have a look at our website and yeah.
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Jody Teiche: Beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: Beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: Well, thank you so, so much for being here with us today, Crystal Lynn.
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Jody Teiche: We appreciate it.
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Jody Teiche: We know that you are far from home and you're on a trip and we're just glad it worked out.
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Jody Teiche: So thank you.
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Jody Teiche: And thanks for sharing your new brand.
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Crystal Lynn: Thank you so much.
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Jody Teiche: And thank you all for joining.
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Jody Teiche: Bark And Swagger is all about living stylishly with your pet and rescue.
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Jody Teiche: And we love fashion.
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Jody Teiche: So stay tuned for interviews with fashion brands, fashion designers, people in the rescue space, authors, all people who have something to do with creating fashionable lives and helping our beautiful animals who are in shelters get adopted.
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Jody Teiche: Until then, when fierce fashion calls, Bark And Swagger.
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