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Vogue
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Decoding Summer Dressing—On the Podcast: Silk Scarves, Flip-Flops, and Grown Women in Baby Tees
It's funny. No matter how long we have been on this earth, whether 20 years or 40 years or more, getting dressed when it's brutally hot and/or humid outside is daunting every time summer rolls around. On this week's edition of The Run-Through, Nicole Phelps is joined by Vogue Runway's Laia Garcia-Furtado, who writes the weekly style advice column 'Addressed,' and Vogue fashion writer Hannah Jackson to discuss summer dressing. They cover both practical topics (what kind of hand-held fan is the best?) and more controversial ones (shirtless men and flip-flops in the city), and also touch upon the season's hottest trends, from Gen Z girlies in their short-jorts and cowboy boots to swimsuits as streetwear and the multi-purpose power of a silk scarf. Hey, if fashion It-boy Timothée Chalamet and Dries Van Noten's Julian Klausner are both endorsing the look, we are, too. Another developing summer dressing trend? Dressing like a haunted doll—what's that all about? Tune in to find out.
Vogue
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
On the Podcast: Robin Givhan Discusses Her Latest Book Make it Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture With Virgil Abloh
When Virgil Abloh suddenly passed away in 2021, at the age of 41 from a rare form of cancer, he occupied a unique place in the industry. As creative director of Louis Vuitton men's, he had one of the most visible and influential jobs in fashion. He was widely celebrated for breaking down barriers and his decidedly egalitarian approach to being creative, but his unlikely path to the top meant he often encountered resistance when it came to the establishment. It was this combination of factors that led Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic at the Washington Post, to write a book focused on his career. 'I'm sure you read some of my criticism of Virgil when he was designing womenswear for Off-White—I was pretty critical, and you know, there were definitely moments when I just did not think that his work for women made sense in the broader fashion context,' she tells Nicole Phelps and Digital Style Director Leah Faye Cooper in the latest episode of The Run-Through. 'But his customers felt this intimacy that I thought was unlike the relationship that other designers had with their customers. After he passed away, I thought it would be interesting to explore what I was seeing as a critic, simply responding to the clothes, and how this whole other community of people was responding to the clothes and the fact that he made them.' Listen to the episode to learn more about what Givhan considers Abloh's accomplishments and impact on fashion to be.
Vogue
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
On the Podcast: 'A Gentler, Tender Show'—Rick Owens Discusses His Upcoming Career Retrospective at the Palais Galliera in Paris
This week, a new exhibition dedicated to the work of Rick Owens, titled 'Rick Owens: Temple of Love,' opens at the Palais Galliera in Paris—the third such retrospective ever given to a living designer, following shows on Azzedine Alaïa in 2013, and Martin Margiela in 2018. On this week's episode of The Run-Through, Owens joins Nicole Phelps from his office in Paris to discuss how the show came together. 'I did a retrospective like 10 or 15 years ago in Milan, and I only did it because they allowed me full control; I did not want to be interpreted by anybody,' he recalled. 'And while I was doing it, I was thinking, Who gets the opportunity to do this? This is like writing your own obituary—you get to define how you want to be represented forever. The show that I did was very bombastic, which is something that I can do; I tend to go there.' He added, 'Afterwards I was thinking, If I ever get the chance to do this kind of thing again, I want to do something more quiet, maybe more delicate, more nuanced.' When the call came from the Palais Galliera, he was happy to 'submit' to what they wanted to do. The pair also discuss the first Rick Owens show to take place during New York Fashion Week, thanks to an impromptu call from none other than André Leon Talley. 'I picked up the phone one day, and there's a voice on the line that goes, 'Hello, this is André Leon Talley. Am I speaking with Rick Owens? And I go, 'Hey,' and he said 'I saw your clothes in the windows at Henri Bendel, and I think you need to meet Anna,'' he recalled. He went on to take part in the famous An American View show sponsored by and Vogue, which took place following 9/11, as part of the fall 2002 collections. Listen below to learn about how Owens conceptualizes his fashion shows, the importance of the community that has coalesced around his work, and the story behind his 'pissing statue.'
