Paw 52: Designer Dalia MacPhee – Creations with a Conscience!
One on one with designer Dalia MacPhee. Every piece of fabric this woman touches has a meaningful message and an extra protection of love in every layer. Meet Dalia MacPhee, designer, inventor and dog and horse lover, who has always thought out of the box with every stitch she sews.
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BIO:
Celebrity Fashion Designer, Wearable Tech Innovator, Fashion Futurist, Tedx Speaker,
First Canadian Fashion Designer on Moon via Lunaprise.
Canadian Fashion Designer Dalia MacPhee has rocketed to the upper echelon of sought- after designers in Hollywood. She’s been called the “IT” girl of the red carpet and Entertainment Tonight has referred to her brand as “Couture with a Conscience.” A trailblazer, her clothing collection was one of the very first to go all vegan and offer plus sizing long before it was the norm.
The Consul General of Canada listed Dalia as an “emerging phenomenon in Canada with significant designing talent”, and Google Inc has touted her as “making waves in fashion and technology.”
Dalia’s designs have graced the figures of celebrities such as Hilary Duff, Heidi Klum, Gina Rodriguez, Brooke Burke-Charvet, Olivia Munn, Amber Riley, Anna Silk, Mel B, Nina Dobrev, Niecy Nash, Alyssa Milano, Serena Williams, Scarlett Johansson, Sheila E, Lisa Ann Walter, Khloe Kardashian, the stars of The Vampire Diaries, Big Bang Theory, Pretty Little Liars, True Blood, and Glee to name a few.
Her clothing brand can be found in better boutiques and department stores worldwide.
Dalia's recent fashion projects include an underwater celebrity fashion campaign to bring awareness to violence against women and a global fashion show to promote world peace. Dalia is the inventor of the world’s first light up jeans, the “brilliant” purse, the EQUISAFE and PETSAFE Blankets (first fully fire retardant horse and pet blankets with built in GPS) and most recently, the ANTIVIRAL Wallet.
Media credits Include: Entertainment Tonight, E!, The Insider, CBS, CTV, ABC, CNN and Fox News. Countless magazines include Vogue, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Allure, Forbes, Success, INc., Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post and People.
Transcript:
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Announcer: Rappaport to the Rescue, with award-winning animal advocate, best-selling author, journalist, and pet products creator, Jill Rappaport.
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Jill Rappaport: Welcome to Rappaport to the Rescue.
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Jill Rappaport: I'm Jill Rappaport.
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Jill Rappaport: My guest today is Dalia MacPhee.
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Jill Rappaport: Now Dalia is the founder of Dalia MacPhee Clothing Brand, and Entertainment Tonight has called this brand Couture with a Conscious.
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Jill Rappaport: She's been featured in Bow, Allure, Marie Claire, and each season, her focus is making beautiful pieces at affordable prices for women of all sizes.
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Jill Rappaport: Gotta love that.
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Jill Rappaport: And the reason I couldn't wait to get her on the show is she is such an incredible animal advocate, an accomplished sequestrient, who is also part of this incredible campaign that I am involved with every year called Seen Through Horses, a nationwide fundraising effort that really makes a huge difference.
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Jill Rappaport: And wait until you hear what she has designed for horses.
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Jill Rappaport: She's really amazing and her work is influenced by the motto, changing the world one gown at a time.
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Jill Rappaport: Designer Dalia MacPhee, when we come back.
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Jill Rappaport: Welcome back to Rappaport to the Rescue.
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Jill Rappaport: I'm Jill Rappaport.
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Jill Rappaport: And certainly one of the greatest gifts that Vancouver has given us are the designs of this amazing woman, Dalia MacPhee.
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Jill Rappaport: And Dalia, I'm so happy that you're joining us today.
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Jill Rappaport: You have done such incredible work in your career.
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Jill Rappaport: And what I love most about your beautiful fashions is affordable for women of all ages and really can appeal to anybody of any lifestyle.
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Dalia MacPhee: Hi, thank you for having me, by the way.
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Dalia MacPhee: >I love what you do.
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Jill Rappaport: Oh, thank you so much.
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Dalia MacPhee: It means a lot to take the time out today and chat.
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Jill Rappaport: Well, you are so creative.
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Jill Rappaport: And when I heard about you and I started reading about you, you're so much more than just a designer, creating amazing fashion.
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Jill Rappaport: That is one skill and one talent in itself, but you take it to a whole different level, Dalia.
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, creation is creation.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's all the same, you know, as far as I'm concerned.
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Jill Rappaport: I was cracking up reading your bio because you started out as a young child thinking you might have had this talent, but others didn't think you did, did they?
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Dalia MacPhee: Oh, you're speaking about Mrs.
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Dalia MacPhee: Stewart?
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Jill Rappaport: Yeah.
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Jill Rappaport: What a nightmare.
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Dalia MacPhee: Right.
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Dalia MacPhee: That was when I was in school, it was mandatory to take a home economics class.
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Dalia MacPhee: And the fall season was sewing and then the spring, summer season was cooking.
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Dalia MacPhee: And she threatened to fail me because I was useless with the sewing machine at the time.
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Dalia MacPhee: And we had this school project and it was to sew this blouse that was the most ugly blouse you'd ever seen in your life.
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Dalia MacPhee: And the idea was you had to sew this blouse in the most wretched fabric and the most wretched color, and then you were going to model it in front of the entire school.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so I learned early on that if you're not motivated, you can't do anything, right?
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Dalia MacPhee: So I just wasn't motivated and was not doing well in school.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so she made me stay after school because I was, I guess, remedial with the sewing machine.
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Dalia MacPhee: And my memory there was trying to sew this blouse and her being very stern with me and accidentally running over her nail.
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Dalia MacPhee: So her nail is now caught in the sewing machine.
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Dalia MacPhee: And she paused and she just looked at me and said, I suggest you never pursue a career in fashion.
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Jill Rappaport: And hello, fast forward.
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Jill Rappaport: Did you ever get back to that lovely lady and let her know, hello, here I am.
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Dalia MacPhee: Right.
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Dalia MacPhee: I wish she said, I suggest you never pursue a, you know, a cure for cancer because we might have that now.
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Dalia MacPhee: I would think I would prove her wrong.
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Jill Rappaport: Did you ever prove her wrong?
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Jill Rappaport: And what is it about your designs that is so important to you to make them appeal to everybody?
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, I think I was a little bit lucky in that I grew up in the business, but on the resale side, my parents had some floating stores in Canada and I was pretty much at that time, I hated it because I was forced after school was really spent in the stores and vacations were spent to company mom and dad on overseas trips and whatnot.
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Dalia MacPhee: But I always remember watching my mom selling to women.
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Dalia MacPhee: And at a young age, seeing women of all ages and all sizes, and literally witnessing them being transformed with clothing and understanding.
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Dalia MacPhee: I think it was always just drilled in my head, make sure you design for people.
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Dalia MacPhee: 62 percent of American women are oversized 12s.
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Dalia MacPhee: It makes sense that fashion is for everyone.
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Dalia MacPhee: So it's really important that we make it for everyone.
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Jill Rappaport: Well, and it's so great today that we embrace people of all sizes and we welcome seeing women of all sizes.
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Jill Rappaport: There used to be a time, the thinner the better.
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Jill Rappaport: And now people are so happy and so thrilled that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
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Jill Rappaport: And thank goodness for designers like you that appreciate that and understand that and have always designed for women of all sizes.
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Dalia MacPhee: Thank you.
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Dalia MacPhee: Yeah, we've evolved quite a bit.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I think it's always hard when you're the renegade and the pioneer for something.
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Dalia MacPhee: I was one of the first mainstream designers to go all vegan way before it was the cool thing to do.
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Dalia MacPhee: But now look at how the industry has changed.
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Dalia MacPhee: I don't think we would have ever thought that some of the old school iconic household names would be going vegan, would be getting rid of fur.
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Dalia MacPhee: And we just don't need to anymore with what we're able to create.
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Dalia MacPhee: We're not living in caves.
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Jill Rappaport: And by the way, the vegan fashions are so beautiful.
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Jill Rappaport: And I love the sheen to the vegan pants.
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Jill Rappaport: I mean, they're just so great looking and so fashion forward.
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Jill Rappaport: And I think it's so wonderful that you were so ahead of your time.
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Jill Rappaport: How did you know back then, Dalia, when you started?
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Jill Rappaport: Why was it so important to you to go vegan?
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, the basics were always motivational for me.
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Dalia MacPhee: So obviously, I never wanted to do fur, I never did fur.
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Dalia MacPhee: I never wanted to do, you know, ostrich or any of those things that were quite apparent.
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Dalia MacPhee: But I remember chatting with a friend of mine in New York, who was fully vegan and really spent time in a lot of the vegan circles.
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Dalia MacPhee: And she had said, you know, there's no vegan designers, Dalia.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I said, well, I don't know what you mean, because I'm not doing leather and I'm not doing fur.
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Dalia MacPhee: And she said, yeah, but you can't do silk either, because she explained how silk is made, which is actually quite sad, because we're killing the silk worm in the process as well.
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Dalia MacPhee: So that really helped to kind of motivate me to look into it further and say, and I like challenges.
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Dalia MacPhee: So for me, it was like, okay, how can I create materials that look like silk, that feel like silk, but aren't silk?
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Dalia MacPhee: And so that kind of, you know, was the motivational factor.
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Dalia MacPhee: But then at that time, it wasn't the coolest thing to do.
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Dalia MacPhee: So we didn't tell people.
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Jill Rappaport: Oh, my goodness, you were keeping that wonderful thing a secret?
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Dalia MacPhee: Yeah, look, the main thing is that you exact change.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I think you do it however you can, right?
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Dalia MacPhee: So at that time, people heard vegan and they thought burlap.
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Dalia MacPhee: They thought, you know, potato sass on models.
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Dalia MacPhee: So for me, it was like, they're not going to get it, and they may actually not buy it because of that.
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Dalia MacPhee: But we're doing something good.
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Dalia MacPhee: So I kind of did the back door entrance, which was, here's this beautiful collection.
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Dalia MacPhee: Everyone loves it.
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Dalia MacPhee: And then we would start telling some celebrities or people that were vegan, by the way, it's vegan.
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Jill Rappaport: Well, again, going back to the model you live by and what you're known for, couture with a conscience.
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Dalia MacPhee: Right, right.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so, for example, I started something recently and I found the same pushback.
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Dalia MacPhee: So during COVID, I started, I went from evening gowns to hospital gowns very quickly and was producing gowns for the hospitals.
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Dalia MacPhee: And, you know, I think we all were kind of, where do you need me?
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Dalia MacPhee: Type of thing because it was such an emergency.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I agreed in a wallet that disinfects KN95 masks.
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Dalia MacPhee: But I started speaking with the hospitals and asking what they needed.
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Dalia MacPhee: And even something simple like one of the hospitals needed these fanny packs to carry the PPE for the nurses.
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Dalia MacPhee: And as I was producing them, I got into thinking and I said, where are they wearing these fanny packs?
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Dalia MacPhee: And of course, they're wearing that just at the waist or below the waist.
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Dalia MacPhee: So basically over the reproductive organs.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I said, how many people are putting their phones in these PPE packs?
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Dalia MacPhee: And of course, the answer was, well, almost everyone.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I had been playing around with this Faraday type material that blocks cell phone radiation.
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Dalia MacPhee: And you can actually measure it with an EMF reader.
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Dalia MacPhee: So it blocks up to 85% of the radiation, but you can still get a phone call, which is in text messages, which is great.
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Dalia MacPhee: No one really was interested.
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Dalia MacPhee: I think it's like we use our phones every day, so it's things that we don't really want to think about.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so I just put it in there.
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Dalia MacPhee: I was like, I'm not even going to ask.
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Dalia MacPhee: I'm just going to do that.
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Dalia MacPhee: And be that resistance.
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Dalia MacPhee: If, for example, I'm making athletic pads and it's like, oh, by the way, the pockets are lined with radiation blocking material, people don't care so much.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so it's more like, let's just do it because it's a good thing to do.
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Dalia MacPhee: And then maybe when they catch up at some point, we'll start, you know, letting them know.
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Jill Rappaport: That is so incredible.
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Jill Rappaport: I want to buy a whole suit to wear designed by you when I go on an airplane.
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Jill Rappaport: What about all the radiation we're exposed to when we're flying?
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Dalia MacPhee: I have to sleep for a full day after flying.
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Dalia MacPhee: That's how sensitive I am.
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Dalia MacPhee: So I agree with you.
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Jill Rappaport: Well, you are so ahead of your time.
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Jill Rappaport: I mean, the medical community should know about you, Dalia.
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Jill Rappaport: Are they aware of what you've created and the benefits?
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, thanks to some of the work that I've done a lot more do know, but I mean, let's get the word out for sure.
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Dalia MacPhee: I worked with Children's National Hospital as well during COVID, and they asked me to do a new take on the isolation gown.
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Dalia MacPhee: So like I said, I like problem-solving.
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Jill Rappaport: Wow.
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Jill Rappaport: I want to partner with you on this.
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Jill Rappaport: I think you're really on to something great.
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Jill Rappaport: And what's amazing, your designs are so good-looking.
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Jill Rappaport: I know the Toronto Sun referred to you as the It Girl in the design world.
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Jill Rappaport: It's one thing to create something that has purpose and meaning and safety, but to be beautiful also.
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Jill Rappaport: You just have the knack of creating these amazing designs, which is what it's all about.
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Jill Rappaport: We want to feel great when we put something on.
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Dalia MacPhee: Yeah.
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Dalia MacPhee: I mean, that's what fashion is really, right?
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Dalia MacPhee: I call it the Superwoman cape.
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Dalia MacPhee: That's the idea is that we're taking the length that's inside and shining it outside.
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Dalia MacPhee: It doesn't really matter what you're wearing as long as it makes you feel at your optimum.
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Dalia MacPhee: But of course, I mean, I always want to make it as beautiful as possible.
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Jill Rappaport: What were some of your inspirations?
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Jill Rappaport: Who did you look up to in the design world?
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Jill Rappaport: Then I want to hear who you've worked with in terms of celebrities and people of influence.
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Dalia MacPhee: Oh my gosh.
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Dalia MacPhee: There's so many as far as designers.
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Dalia MacPhee: I think Valentino and Oscar DeLaurenta a lot for the gown world.
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Jill Rappaport: I got to interview Oscar DeLaurenta a few times.
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Dalia MacPhee: Wow.
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Dalia MacPhee: How was that?
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Jill Rappaport: The most classy, lovely, wonderful person.
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Jill Rappaport: I started out as a fashion reporter in my career.
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Jill Rappaport: Yes, that's right.
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Jill Rappaport: I started in Francisco decades ago and got to sit down with all the greats, including Karl Lagerfeld and Halston.
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Dalia MacPhee: Oh my gosh.
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Jill Rappaport: Yeah, and Ralph Lauren, I credit to kickstarting my career.
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Jill Rappaport: He really gave me the exclusive one-on-one interview which catapulted me into my first job.
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Jill Rappaport: He really got me the job by giving me the interview.
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Jill Rappaport: Yes.
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, it may end also a little bit of symmetry there with the horse connection.
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Jill Rappaport: Oh, absolutely.
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Jill Rappaport: I mean, and he's all about America and the animals and the beauty of the West.
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Jill Rappaport: And you can see I love the Southwest and I'm wearing a squash blossom necklace now, and I live in a log cabin.
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Jill Rappaport: And what about what you've done for animals?
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Jill Rappaport: Talk about your philanthropic work and how you've given back and how much you care.
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Jill Rappaport: And you're an accomplished equestrian, but you've also created something for horses that is truly life-saving.
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Jill Rappaport: And I've got to get from you, from my horses.
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Jill Rappaport: Yes.
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Dalia MacPhee: So, you know, my, my horse Wolfie, who's out in California, a couple of years, he's fine.
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Dalia MacPhee: First of all, we'll start with that.
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Dalia MacPhee: But a few years ago, Calabasas was on fire and I was out of town.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I remember a friend of mine, who's a news reporter who always gets to the news first, texts me and says, is Wolfie okay?
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Dalia MacPhee: So I, of course, I call her out.
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Dalia MacPhee: I go, what do you, what do you mean?
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Dalia MacPhee: Is Wolfie okay?
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Dalia MacPhee: What are you talking about?
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Jill Rappaport: What a horrible message to get, right?
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, Calabasas is on fire.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so I remembered, I called the stables and I said, oh my gosh, what's going on?
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Dalia MacPhee: And it's the worst feeling when you're out of town, right?
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Jill Rappaport: Yes.
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Dalia MacPhee: I said, what's going on?
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Dalia MacPhee: And they said that the fire is getting really close.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's starting to, you know, the stables are minimally starting to catch on fire.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I said, where are the evacuation trailers?
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Dalia MacPhee: Because we always have a plan for these things.
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Dalia MacPhee: And they said this fire department won't let them through.
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Dalia MacPhee: And this is, this is common, by the way, this happens a lot.
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Jill Rappaport: Yes, in California, the wildfires, one of the most frightening things.
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Dalia MacPhee: Right, so this happens often.
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Dalia MacPhee: So they said, we're hoping that they find a back road to get through.
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Dalia MacPhee: But in the meantime, we're here, and the fire department is here, and they're saying, post the horses down, so they burn slower or set them loose.
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Jill Rappaport: Oh, your heart must have been on the floor at that point.
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Dalia MacPhee: Yeah, it was, it was really heart wrenching.
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Dalia MacPhee: Thankfully, the evacuation trailers somehow found a back road and then got in, so all the horses were evacuated just in time.
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Dalia MacPhee: My horse was the last one.
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Dalia MacPhee: He didn't leave, I think, as he thought he was leaving me somehow, so he was the last one to get on.
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Dalia MacPhee: But you know, that's when the seed was planted a little bit, as they say, necessity is the mother of all invention.
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Dalia MacPhee: And then a year later was the Lilac Fire in San Diego, where hundreds of horses had to be set loose because fires were raging.
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Dalia MacPhee: I think it was the Delmar area.
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Dalia MacPhee: And horses were killed, other horses were severely burned, and took months to recuperate.
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Jill Rappaport: And here you are a clothing designer.
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Jill Rappaport: At that point, when your baby, your fur angel could have been in a life-threatening situation, was in a life-threatening situation, thank God made it, but that's what created, that's what went off the light bulb moment in your head.
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Dalia MacPhee: You know, I had personal friends on Facebook who were posting, have you seen my horse?
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Dalia MacPhee: Cause the horse is now missing.
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Dalia MacPhee: And as you and I know about a lot of public don't know, the horses that then are set loose, it's not just trying to find them and their safety and everything else.
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Dalia MacPhee: There are bad people out there that then pick them up and sell them to the auction houses to be set to be slaughtered.
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Dalia MacPhee: So I remember I was on the phone with a friend of mine and I said, how come no one's created a fully fired retire horse blanket with GPS?
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Dalia MacPhee: And there was a pause and she goes, well, why don't you?
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Dalia MacPhee: That's when I created the AquaSafe blanket, which is a fully fired retire horse blanket with built-in GPS.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's been endorsed by the fire chief of California and the fire captain of LA, and it's carried by SmartPak.
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Dalia MacPhee: I actually got them to order it by, I flew out and they said, we love this, we heard all about it.
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Dalia MacPhee: We know it was on the front of NBC, but we don't have room for nude brands right now.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I said, no problem.
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Dalia MacPhee: I brought up blowtorch.
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Dalia MacPhee: Do you want to watch me blowtorch the fabric over my arm?
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Jill Rappaport: Unbelievable.
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Jill Rappaport: Now, I hate to ask you, it's one of those things where you've created the most important thing, but you never want to see it put to use.
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Jill Rappaport: But has it actually been put to use and saved a horse?
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Dalia MacPhee: Not that I know of.
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Jill Rappaport: That's good, because we don't want to hear about those situations.
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Dalia MacPhee: Right, exactly.
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Dalia MacPhee: So, I mean, I think you only ever hear sometimes about the bad stories, right?
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Jill Rappaport: Right.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's been purchased all over the country, and I do know various people that have contacted me, saying, I put it on my horse when we put him in the evacuation trailer, which is also another use for it, right?
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Dalia MacPhee: Because this is in a worst-case scenario where you have to set your horse loose, but it's also in scenarios where the horse is being put in a trailer and they're being evacuated because they could be burned from falling embers.
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Dalia MacPhee: There's also second and third-degree burns that can occur from close proximity to heat.
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Jill Rappaport: So it's not just a blanket, you actually have a hood that covers the neck and the head, everything.
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Jill Rappaport: It's a full body.
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Dalia MacPhee: Yeah, and someone came up with a cheeky, there's always people that come out and try to poo poo ideas and so on and say, well, how can you haven't done it for all the legs?
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Dalia MacPhee: I said, well, first of all, I have that, we could do the legs.
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Dalia MacPhee: But I spoke with enough vets and saw enough from prior circumstances of where the areas that the horse has the most pain when they're burned and take the longest to recuperate.
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Dalia MacPhee: Constantly came back with the flanks, the top of the back, the neck.
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Dalia MacPhee: So it was most important to me to create that first.
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Dalia MacPhee: I have something for the legs as well.
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Dalia MacPhee: But sometimes in an emergency, all you can do is throw a blanket on, and anything is better than nothing.
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Jill Rappaport: Well, I know firemen have it, but what about just in our own homes?
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Jill Rappaport: Should we have that protective gear for humans as well?
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Jill Rappaport: Are you developing that as we speak?
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Dalia MacPhee: I definitely think so.
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Dalia MacPhee: By creating the blanket, one of the important things to me was to make it affordable.
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Dalia MacPhee: I made it very affordable.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's also environmentally friendly.
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Dalia MacPhee: In creating the solution to make it fire-retardant and environmentally friendly, I accidentally created something that can be used as a fire retardant in the home.
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Dalia MacPhee: So it's one of my next products that I'm releasing.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's called Burnout.
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Dalia MacPhee: And it's a new take on the fire extinguisher.
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Dalia MacPhee: So if I asked you how to use a fire extinguisher, chances are you may know.
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Jill Rappaport: No, forget it.
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Jill Rappaport: That's what's so scary.
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Jill Rappaport: So I want to hear about this.
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Dalia MacPhee: In an emergency, you know, there's so many things to think about.
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Dalia MacPhee: They have to be maintained.
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Dalia MacPhee: So this fits in something that looks like a water bottle and it breaks on impact, but it doesn't shard.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so all you have to know how to do is throw.
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Jill Rappaport: That I can do.
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Jill Rappaport: That I'm good at.
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Jill Rappaport: Wait a second.
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Jill Rappaport: When are you coming out with this?
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Jill Rappaport: And when are you sending me samples?
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Dalia MacPhee: I'm going to send you samples of everything.
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Dalia MacPhee: Don't you worry.
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Jill Rappaport: I just love that, you know, first of all, what you're doing is just, you know, the old V8, the commercial.
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Jill Rappaport: I should have had a V8.
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Jill Rappaport: It's the same idea.
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Jill Rappaport: Why didn't I think of this?
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Jill Rappaport: Right.
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Jill Rappaport: These are such important, wonderful ideas, Dalia.
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Dalia MacPhee: Thank you.
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, to me, this was really also just to have something that is non-toxic.
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Dalia MacPhee: But, you know, it's funny because during COVID, I actually had some necessities delivered to me by a drone.
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Dalia MacPhee: There was a company doing this, right?
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Dalia MacPhee: And so it was the craziest thing.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I was like, I gotta see how this works.
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Dalia MacPhee: This is crazy.
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Dalia MacPhee: How did, you know, how did they get the permission to do this and everything?
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Dalia MacPhee: And as they get closer and they're like two minutes away, they tell you to go outside and then you're on your cell phone and they're like, is it over you?
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Dalia MacPhee: Is it over you?
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Dalia MacPhee: Is it over?
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Dalia MacPhee: Yeah, okay, it's over me.
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Dalia MacPhee: Okay.
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Dalia MacPhee: And they hit a button and the bag drops and you catch it.
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Dalia MacPhee: And immediately I was like, wait a second, we could take burnout and put it in large bottles and send drones out into wildfires and drop it.
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Dalia MacPhee: So that's my big dream is to just figure out solutions for the wildfires.
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Dalia MacPhee: You know, I'm chatting with some of the powers that be to see if that is something that we should start testing and move forward with.
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Jill Rappaport: And it seems like, I mean, obviously, fashion is first in your life, but it seems like you're really going in this direction of life-saving products, because that seems to be where your heart is, what you can do to really make a difference to save lives.
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Dalia MacPhee: To save lives and of course, being an animal lover to improve animals' lives, save animals' lives and to improve their lives.
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Dalia MacPhee: You know, I looked at everything that we have for humans and how far we've come with technology.
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Dalia MacPhee: And my thought always is, why don't we make this burn at all?
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Dalia MacPhee: You know, like they can't speak and they've given us so much.
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Dalia MacPhee: So that's one of my number one missions.
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Jill Rappaport: Well, tell me about the animals in your life.
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Jill Rappaport: I know about your beloved horse.
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Jill Rappaport: And I know you're very involved with the wonderful campaign that I also have partaked in called Steen Through Horses.
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Jill Rappaport: Tell me all about your commitment, your compassion to all animals.
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Dalia MacPhee: I have a new rescue now.
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Dalia MacPhee: Her name is Lily, and she's a Border Collie mix.
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Jill Rappaport: I saw a picture.
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Jill Rappaport: Lily is beautiful.
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Dalia MacPhee: And so prior to Lily, I had my dog Daisy.
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Dalia MacPhee: She actually looked identical to her.
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Dalia MacPhee: So the story of how I got Lily is just kind of crazy.
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Dalia MacPhee: She just appeared out of nowhere.
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Dalia MacPhee: I don't think there's any accidents.
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Dalia MacPhee: I think our animals find us.
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Jill Rappaport: That's right.
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Jill Rappaport: They really do.
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Jill Rappaport: And each one, when you see the personality, the ones that I've rescued, I think to myself, they could have only ended up with me.
00:22:34.969 --> 00:22:38.009
Jill Rappaport: It's just a match made in heaven for both of us.
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Jill Rappaport: And I totally agree with that.
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Jill Rappaport: But you know, the more you're talking about how much you love your dogs and your horse, is this something that would be a full-time profession for you down the road where you maybe design clothing for animals, not just safety clothing?
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Dalia MacPhee: Absolutely.
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Dalia MacPhee: I already have a second division under Dalia MacPhee, and it's all for pets.
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Jill Rappaport: Oh, great.
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Dalia MacPhee: There's already products that have been released, and there are a lot more products to look forward to.
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Dalia MacPhee: Some of the products that have been released are, I came out with a dog version of the fire retardant blanket that's been released.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's called the PetSafe Fire Retardant Jacket for Dogs with GPS, because we can't forget about them in wildfires.
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Dalia MacPhee: And then I also have a heated puff jacket for dogs.
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Dalia MacPhee: So it looks beautiful, very fashionable.
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Dalia MacPhee: It's a puff jacket, but it has eight hours of heat, and it's wireless, so you can throw it in the washing machine.
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Dalia MacPhee: The only wire is the one that connects to the battery, so there's no wire, so no EMF running through the whole dog's body, which is great.
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Dalia MacPhee: I have a heated bed for dogs.
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Dalia MacPhee: I have a bed that has air conditioning for dogs.
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Jill Rappaport: Oh my gosh.
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Jill Rappaport: I did not know this, but I'm getting all your products.
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Jill Rappaport: An air conditioned bed.
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Dalia MacPhee: Jill's making a list of all the samples she wants right now.
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Jill Rappaport: When I have seen this, is it online?
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Jill Rappaport: The air conditioned bed and the heated dog coat?
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Dalia MacPhee: This is a little bit stealth, to be honest with you.
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Dalia MacPhee: So I'm giving you kind of first-hand info, but it's to be released.
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Jill Rappaport: I would have thought, oh, I didn't do my homework because I haven't seen that stuff anywhere, Dalia.
00:24:13.529 --> 00:24:14.549
Dalia MacPhee: No, not yet.
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Dalia MacPhee: What I call the denim products, which are just more fashionable jackets and things like that, you may have seen.
00:24:20.869 --> 00:24:26.469
Dalia MacPhee: I've already released a lot of those, but the more innovative this is, you're kind of getting firsthand.
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Jill Rappaport: Well, I'll tell you, you are blowing me away with your intelligence, your creativity, and your knowledge, and the ability to come up not only with these ideas, but to actually create them.
00:24:39.929 --> 00:24:45.189
Jill Rappaport: And you know they're making a difference for angels, which is so important.
00:24:45.189 --> 00:24:47.649
Jill Rappaport: I'll tell you, I want to work with you on all of these things.
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Jill Rappaport: You are truly incredible.
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Jill Rappaport: Yes, because again, I'm all about rescue and adoption, and I see what's going on in the world right now.
00:24:56.949 --> 00:25:11.729
Jill Rappaport: It is so dire, and any way we can help them, any product, any message, any clothing, any story, we have to get the message out there to raise awareness, so people know to get out there now and take an animal home.
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Dalia MacPhee: Well, you know, it's so funny that you'd sent that because I have a news piece coming up, and they wanted to chat about the moon landing and just, you know, spring fashion and whatnot.
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Dalia MacPhee: And of course, I'm trying to tie in animals any way I can.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I'd said, you know what, Mother's Day, why don't we do a rescue pups looking for their mom?
00:25:31.829 --> 00:25:37.089
Dalia MacPhee: And we'll dress my models in my dresses, or I now have a pajama collection.
00:25:37.089 --> 00:25:40.089
Dalia MacPhee: So we'll dress them in something that is current.
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Dalia MacPhee: And we'll dress the adoptable dog in something matching, and try to get these animals homes for Mother's Day.
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Dalia MacPhee: Because, you know, every opportunity that we have to do something, let's do it.
00:25:52.589 --> 00:25:54.049
Jill Rappaport: That is such a great idea.
00:25:54.049 --> 00:25:56.369
Jill Rappaport: Just reaching out for their next mom, you know?
00:25:56.809 --> 00:26:02.329
Dalia MacPhee: Well, I remember reading this story about this cute little kid who started creating bow ties.
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Jill Rappaport: Sir Darius Brown.
00:26:03.949 --> 00:26:05.209
Jill Rappaport: Yes, he's my friend.
00:26:05.209 --> 00:26:06.449
Jill Rappaport: He's been on the podcast.
00:26:06.449 --> 00:26:08.669
Jill Rappaport: I put him on my show in Dog Bowl.
00:26:08.669 --> 00:26:15.169
Jill Rappaport: I've known him since he was very, very young and was a little boy, and now he's over six feet tall.
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Dalia MacPhee: That's so great.
00:26:16.489 --> 00:26:16.949
Jill Rappaport: Yeah, he's great.
00:26:16.949 --> 00:26:18.949
Dalia MacPhee: What a great human to do that.
00:26:18.949 --> 00:26:20.069
Dalia MacPhee: It reminds you, right?
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Dalia MacPhee: Like you look at that and you go, yeah, like there's so many amazing dogs that don't have homes.
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Dalia MacPhee: Try when you can, even if you're looking for a purebred, try to just put it out there to find one in the shelters, because I guarantee whatever you're looking for is out there, or better than what you're looking for.
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Dalia MacPhee: But there's so many animals that need homes.
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Jill Rappaport: So many, and I try to create my own products, my toy Shelter Shake, which has been featured on national TV.
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Jill Rappaport: Dogs love it.
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Jill Rappaport: And again, it's the messaging, you know, it's Shelter Shake.
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Jill Rappaport: Anytime I have a line of leashes and collars with all rescue and adoption, mindful sayings, because, you know, people, when they rescue and adopt, they did it out of the goodness of their heart.
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Jill Rappaport: They saved a life in turn.
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Jill Rappaport: They've been saved.
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Jill Rappaport: But the best thing about it, you and I both know that people like to have bragging rights.
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Jill Rappaport: You know, they like to say, I rescued that dog.
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Jill Rappaport: I made a difference.
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Jill Rappaport: It makes you feel good.
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Jill Rappaport: And so my leashes have sayings like, I'm a heart melter from a shelter.
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Jill Rappaport: I'm a pound pooch.
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Jill Rappaport: Bless you for my rescue.
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Dalia MacPhee: That's a slender.
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Jill Rappaport: So they're sporting mindful messages and people are proud to display them.
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Jill Rappaport: They're for a good cause.
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Jill Rappaport: Proceeds go back to helping animals in need.
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Jill Rappaport: But I have to tell you, Dalia, of all my guests in terms of creativity, you are just blowing me away.
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Jill Rappaport: You are amazing.
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Dalia MacPhee: Can I get that sound bite?
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Dalia MacPhee: I'll take it.
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Jill Rappaport: You can use it quoted by me, yes.
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Dalia MacPhee: That makes me think, thank you.
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Jill Rappaport: And what you've created in the fashion world, that that wasn't enough.
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Jill Rappaport: And then what I read about you, and heard all that you're doing for Animals in Need, and how big your heart is for our four-legged friends.
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Jill Rappaport: I just knew that we would be bonded for life.
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Dalia MacPhee: I agree.
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Dalia MacPhee: Yeah, no.
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Dalia MacPhee: And I think we need to create something together.
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Jill Rappaport: Oh, absolutely.
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Jill Rappaport: As they say in the business, we'll talk.
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Jill Rappaport: After this podcast, we will talk.
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Jill Rappaport: But I'm so happy to have you here.
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Jill Rappaport: You are incredible.
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Jill Rappaport: What you've done, what you're doing, and really just an inspiration for not only all designers out there, but all young people listening to this, knowing what you can do, what you can create.
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Jill Rappaport: Because in the end, it's one thing to be talented and successful.
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Jill Rappaport: But isn't it about what we leave behind and what we do for others?
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Dalia MacPhee: 100%.
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Dalia MacPhee: I agree.
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Jill Rappaport: And you are really leading your mark.
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Jill Rappaport: Let me tell you.
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Dalia MacPhee: Thank you.
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Jill Rappaport: Dalia MacPhee, thank you so much for being on Rappaport to the Rescue.
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Jill Rappaport: I have learned so much.
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Jill Rappaport: I cannot wait to see and get all of these products for my own, fur angels.
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Jill Rappaport: And really, it was a pleasure.
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Jill Rappaport: And thank you to all of you who have tuned in today to Rappaport to the Rescue.
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