Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud

Thom Browne is an American fashion designer, who is widely recognized for challenging and modernizing our contemporary uniform and tailoring. By questioning traditional proportions, Browne’s designs consistently convey a true American sensibility rooted in quality craftsmanship and precise tailoring. Browne began working in fashion in the late 1990s for brands including Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren. In 2001, Browne began his eponymous label with five suits in a small “by appointment” shop in New York City’s West Village and, in the years following, expanded his business to include ready-to-wear, accessories and fragrance collections for men, women and children. Browne has dressed leading figures across culture, including Teyana Taylor, LeBron James, Diane Keaton, Janelle Monae, and Timothee Chalamet. Browne has also become known for his highly conceptual runway presentations which have gained global attention for their thought provoking and dramatic themes and settings. In 2023, Browne became the Chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America and has been honored with the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year Award four times, the GQ Designer of the Year, the FIT Couture Council Award, and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.His designs are recognized by museums around the world including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Mode Museum Antwerpen. In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and Thom Browne discuss how individuality is heightened by a uniform, long vs short runway shows, and how sadness can be uplifting. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lynne Ramsay is an award-winning director and writer. Born and raised in Glasgow, Lynne made the short film Little Deaths during her time at the National Film and Television School, which won the 1996 Prix du Jury at Cannes. In 1998, she wrote and directed the short film Gasman, starring her brother James, which won the BAFTA short film award and another Prix du Jury. Her feature film debut was the 1999 film Ratcatcher, which won numerous awards, follows a young boy growing up in working-class Glasgow during the bin workers strike in the 1970s. She has since written and directed four feature films, often adapting books such as Morvern Callar, which starred a young Samantha Morton as a woman grieving her boyfriend’s suicide at a party resort in Spain, We Need To Talk About Kevin, and You Were Never Really Here. Her latest film, Die My Love, is produced by Martin Scorsese and stars Jennifer Lawrence as a new mother suffering post-partum psychosis, whilst her husband played by Robert Pattinson struggles to cope with her illness. Lynnw Ramsay studied photography at Napier College Edinburgh, and much of her film work has been inspired by photographers including Robert Frank, Richard Billingham and Nan Goldin, influencing her meticulous use of colour and framing. In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and Lynne Ramsay discuss the working class Glasgow Intelligentsia, seizing the moment on a film shoot, and the generosity of Martin Scorsese’s brilliance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices