The Fraught History of Naming Celebrities 'World's Most Beautiful'
People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful" editor Andrea Lavinthal joins Back Row to go behind the scenes of the most coveted — and complicated — cover in celebrity journalism. Anne Hathaway talked to...
30 Apr 46min
Met Gala 2026: The Bezos Backlash, Devil Wears Prada 2, and What It All Means for Anna Wintour
The 2026 Met Gala has three storylines running at once: Jeff and Lauren Bezos as lead sponsors, The Devil Wears Prada 2 opening the Friday before, and Anna Wintour doing more press than she has in yea...
20 Apr 56min
12 Ultra-Rich People Opened Up About What Money Did to Them
What does extreme wealth actually do to a person? Their psychology, their relationships, their behavior? New York Magazine features writer Lane Brown set out to answer that question by interviewing a...
13 Apr 32min
Why Anna Wintour Did the 'Vogue' Cover
This is the audio version of the Back Row newsletter published April 7, 2022. What on earth is Anna Wintour doing on the cover of Vogue?! A theory as to why she's leaning so hard into The Devil Wears...
10 Apr 7min
'The Devil Wears Prada' Rewatch: Was 'Vogue' Really Like That?
How much was Vogue really like The Devil Wears Prada? Amy Odell sits down with former Vanity Fair critic and the author of the Premiere Party newsletter, Richard Lawson, to rewatch The Devil Wears Pra...
6 Apr 57min
Are We Living Through a New Gilded Age?
Will Kris Jenner's birthday party be immortalized on an HBO show in a hundred years? Maybe. The Gilded Age was America’s first era of extreme wealth, inequality, and loud luxury, spanning 1870 to 1...
30 Mar 33min
Why Tech Billionaires Are Becoming Fashion’s New Kardashians
Are tech billionaires the next Kardashians? From Mark Zuckerberg sitting front row at Prada to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Met Gala sponsorship, tech billionaires are increasingly present in the ...
27 Mar 39min
Inside JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’s Life on Cape Cod
What did Love Story get wrong about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette? Amy Odell sits down with Kate Storey, author of White House by the Sea, to break down what really happened inside the Kennedy compoun...
23 Mar 40min
