🎙️ New Podcast Episode: Label Queen with James Aguiar — Featuring Philippe Trinh
Label Queen with James Aguiar — Philippe Trinh (Apple Podcast) and on Spotify -here-.
Episode 11 · Released September 10, 2025
On this episode of Label Queen, host James Aguiar sits down with fashion-designer-turned-food-creator Philippe Trinh (@whiskeyandbooch) for a candid conversation about reinvention, resilience, and finding identity through food.
From the Kansas City suburbs to the runways of New York, Philippe built a career designing for labels like Phillip Lim, Perry Ellis, and Joseph Abboud — only to have it all turned upside down in 2020. What started as cooking to preserve family recipes became a viral food platform with 150K+ followers and millions of views. Today, Philippe is known as the Asian culinary wizard behind crave-worthy dishes, cultural storytelling, and collaborations with brands like Tastemade and Amazon Fresh.
In this episode, James and Philippe talk about the pivots, the risks, and the rewards of building a second act in the public eye — plus, they cook up a simple Vietnamese chicken salad while diving into food trends, nostalgia, and what really makes something go viral.
🎧 Listen to Episode 11 now: Label Queen with James Aguiar — Philippe Trinh (Apple Podcast) and
Spotify -here-.