StyleZeitgeist Podcast: Why Speaking Up Matters with James Scully

Culture, Fashion

We speak with the casting director James Scully about his trajectory of working in fashion, from his days at the iconic New York boutique Charivari in the ‘80s to his days at Harper’s Bazaar and the changes he witnessed while being there, to becoming one of the best casting agents in the fashion industry; his whistle blowing on the rampant abuse of models and the changes it engendered. James’s is a brilliant story of working his way up in fashion through sheer love of it and his talent. It is also an important one because it provides a rare glimpse of what goes on under the hood of the fashion industry.

StyleZeitgeist Podcast: The Apology by Demna with Amy Odell

Culture, Fashion

We dissect Demna’s first post-Balenciaga scandal interview in Vogue with the journalist Amy Odell. We discuss Demna’s mea culpas and the various statements he makes, dive into the mechanics of the interview, its possible causes and effects, Kering’s corporate strategy, and Vogue’s journalistic integrity. We also try to guess who actually conducted the interview. Odell…

StyleZeitgeist Podcast: The Fashion Media Landscape And Its Discontents With Luke Meagher, Mario Abad, and José Criales-Unzueta

Culture, Fashion

On this episode we speak with three young fashion media people – Luke Meagher of the YouTube and Instagram channel Haute Le Mode, Mario Abad, the fashion editor of Paper magazine, and Jose Criales-Unzueta, a regular contributor to I-D, Them and the Business of Fashion about the challenges they face and the problems they see with the current fashion media landscape.