![]() Jobs at Neiman Marcus and as a manager and buyer of designer apparel at Nordstrom exposed Richardson to the world’s most luxurious fabrics and labels. Ultimately one of his professors gave him a life-changing revelation, telling Richardson, “you know, all that stuff is washable.” Richardson went on to study apparel, merchandising and textiles at University of Kentucky, quickly discovering that a college student’s budget left little funds for dry cleaning. “And that kind of got me started, because one of my earliest memories was handing her clothespins because she would hang everything on the clothesline.” So she figured out how to wash things that weren’t washable,” Richardson recalls during a recent phone chat. And when she was young there were no dry cleaners in town. ![]() And she would buy these beautiful clothes. “My granny used to drive to Columbus, Ohio, to shop. ![]() But there are also the stories behind the people and the items themselves - everything from wedding gowns to baby blankets to vintage clothing.īorn and raised in the eastern Kentucky foothills of Appalachian Mountains, Richardson began his love of all things laundry at the age of 2 ½, during the times spent with his grandmother in the small town of Grayson, Kentucky. The series is filled with plenty of tips on how to pre-treat, wash, hang dry and properly fold all that laundry. Meet Patric Richardson, the self-proclaimed “Evangelist of Laundry” and star of the new series “The Laundry Guy,” premiering March 31 on Discovery+ (with a onetime airing at 9 p.m.
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