On the Podcast: What Vogue Editors Are Watching, Reading, and Listening to This Summer
On this week's episode of The Run-Through, Chloe and Chioma invite Vogue's fashion news editor, Jose Criales-Unzueta, and senior lifestyle editor, Liam Hess, to select their most highly anticipated releases of the summer. Below, the culture picks under discussion:
Films
Materialists
Superman
Jurassic World Rebirth
Sentimental Value
Smurfs
Freakier Friday
Megan 2.0
TV Shows
And Just Like That…
The Gilded Age, Season 2
Too Much
Music/Tours
Lorde's Virgin
Miley Cyrus's Something Beautiful
Jorja Smith's Falling or Flying tour
Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour
Kendrick Lamar and SZA's Grand National Tour
Lady Gaga's Mayhem tour
Books
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by Amanda Hess
How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast
Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America by Michael M. Grynbaum
Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn
The Bombshell by Darrow Farr
Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation by Tommy Dorfman
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