Taste
Makers
Who shapes taste, luxury and mind in Vancouver.
Conversations with the people who notice what others miss.
One conversation, recorded where the work happens.
Vancouver Taste Makers is a podcast about the people who set the standard in the city: boutique teams, designers, galleries, leading businesses, and the minds behind lasting work. Each episode is one unhurried conversation about craft, clients and taste, recorded in the guest's own space.
- Length
- 30 to 45 minutes
- Where
- On location, in the guest's boutique, studio or venue
- Cadence
- One episode a week
- Clips
- 30 to 60 second vertical cuts for Instagram and YouTube
- Look
- Black, white and ivory. Guests appear in black, white or colour.
Taste
How the city's fashion, art, design and hospitality people see, choose and edit.
Luxury
What craft, service and a considered client experience look like up close, told by the people who deliver them.
Mind
The mindset behind lasting businesses, and why every child deserves to be understood.
Nothing is filmed or published without your approval.
Every feature starts with a written yes from the brand. You decide the date, the place and the final cut.
What you control
- The date, time and location in your Space
- Recording before opening or after close, with no customers on camera
- A full review of the finished episode before it is published
- Only your brand is featured, with no competing brands, pricing or product claims you have not cleared
- How your name and logo appear
- The right to withdraw before publication
What you receive
- A polished feature in black and ivory, made for Vancouver's luxury audience
- The edited vertical clips, free, for your own channels
- A host who prepares: five questions sent ahead and a short call to agree anything sensitive
- One featured brand per category in season one
- ApproveYou confirm the date, place and the guest from your team.
- RecordAbout 70 minutes on site, outside trading hours.
- ReviewYou see the cut and sign off, or ask for changes.
- PublishThe episode and clips go live. You are tagged.
Supporting awareness of ADHD and autism in African children.
In many African communities, children grow up with ADHD or autism that no one names. They feel left out, and no one explains why. Vancouver Taste Makers is not an ADHD or autism show. It is a show about taste, luxury and mind, and it uses its platform to support those children and the adults they became. Each season, one story or one expert opens the conversation.
What we will do each season
- Host one conversation with clinicians, educators, parents and adults diagnosed later in life.
- Share plain-language resources, linked to trusted organizations.
- Share personal stories only with written consent.
How giving works
- Donations go to one registered charity doing this work, which issues any receipt.
- Vancouver Taste Makers does not hold or handle donated funds.
- The charity will be named here, with its registration number, before we ask for anything.
We do not give medical advice or diagnoses. We do not share a child's story or photo without a parent or guardian's written consent. If you are worried about a child, please speak to a qualified health professional.
Akhere Onabirhekhanlen
A Vancouver fashion designer and content creator, and the founder of the first fashion club at Northeastern University, Vancouver. She holds a master's degree in Information Design and Data Visualization, and she builds the show the way she designs: with a clear eye for what to leave out.
- Based in East Vancouver, BC
- Background Fashion design, information design, sales
- Instagram @sandra.forbes.africa
The first fashion club at Northeastern University, Vancouver.
The club's launch brought designers, models and students together for a runway showcase. Vancouver Taste Makers carries the same idea forward: put talented people in the room and let them tell their story.
Request the approval pack, or propose a guest.
Send a note with your brand, your role and the team member you would like to feature. The approval pack covers the overview and the sign-off form.