The Legacy of Valentino Garavani, the Great Prada Men’s Show, and Fashionable Sex
Lauren’s guest is editor Isabella Burley, founder of Climax Books. They discuss Valentino Garavani, whose passing was announced as they were recording the episode. They also consider men’s fashion wee...
20 Jan 51min
GQ’s Next Editor & A Vanity Fair Temp Check
New York Times reporters Jessica Testa and Michael Grynbaum join Lauren for a very special episode about the current state of legacy publisher Condé Nast. (Remember, Michael wrote a book about Condé N...
16 Jan 1h 11min
Red Carpet Wars
Lauren’s guest is Who What Wear co-founder, Future Publishing S.V.P., and Substacker Hillary Kerr. They discuss the best and worst of the Golden Globes red carpet, and what the lineup portends about t...
13 Jan 43min
Inside the Saks Saga
Lauren is joined by financial whiz Bill Cohan, author of Puck’s Dry Powder, to discuss the situation at Saks Global, the department store group that is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy immin...
9 Jan 52min
The 2026 Fashion Discourse So Far
Lauren is joined by return guest and Vanity Fair senior staff writer Marisa Meltzer, who is also the author of Soft Power on Substack and the fall bestseller It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birki...
6 Jan 58min
Costume Drama
Lauren’s guest is Stacey Battat, costume designer behind a ton of Sofia Coppola movies, including Somewhere, The Beguiled, Priscilla, and On the Rocks. (She’s also worked on several television series,...
2 Jan 58min
Fashion’s Biggest Year Ever
Lauren is joined by listener favorites Jacob Gallagher (The New York Times) and Becky Malinsky (5 Things You Should Buy) for a supersized episode covering the biggest stories of 2025, from all the des...
29 Dec 20251h 42min
Diamonds are Forever...And Then Some
Lauren is joined by Marc Bridge, C.E.O. of At Present and heir to the Ben Bridge jewelry empire, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway. We discuss the way the business of fine jewelry h...
26 Dec 20251h 8min
