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BLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed Bazaar

Dennis Golonka + Cynthia True
  • 5.0 (93)
  • FASHION & BEAUTY
  • UPDATED WEEKLY

A six-part podcast about fashion's forgotten queen and the biggest moment in Nineties fashion. With Fabien Baron, Paul Cavaco, Grace Coddington, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Isaac Mizrahi, Donna Karan, and Patrick Jephson.

  1. JUN 29 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Paul Eustace Q&A

    Advertising veteran and Former Harper’s Bazaar Art Director Paul Eustace talks about meeting young Liz Tilberis for the first time, how working with her and Fabien Baron changed his work forever, and what it took to get a really good Princess Diana cover.

    22 min

  2. JUN 7 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Jill Kargman Q&A

    Cohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to writer, actress—and former Bazaar intern—Jill Kargman about growing up at the center of the fashion world, why her family's connection to Liz Tilberis went way beyond business and the most important thing she learned at Bazaar.

    30 min

  3. MAY 24 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    David Sims Q&A

    Photographer David Sims talks about "the runaway train" his career became when Liz and Fabien put him under contract in '93, the affinity (and gratitude) he felt for former Bazaar photographer Richard Avedon, and shooting Linda Evangelista for an iconic "comeback" story at a moment when supermodels were supposedly dead.

    31 min

  4. MAY 10 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Alison Edmond Q&A

    Cynthia True talks to Alison Edmond, Artistic and Fashion Director of the Hollywood Reporter, about art-directing some 40 covers a year at THR (one of which just won a National Magazine Award), starting her career at British Vogue with Liz Tilberis and becoming her West Coast Editor at Harper's Bazaar in '93. They also chat about Alison working with her idol, photographer Peter Lindbergh (@therealpeterlindbergh); shooting Prince at 1 am after the Grammys; and the moment Liz “saved her” early in her career.

    22 min

  5. SEASON 1 TRAILER

    Blow-Up Bonus Q&As are here!

    Subscribe to listen to our bonus Q&As with the models, celebrities, stylists, photographers, and, of course, the editors who made Harper's Bazaar the hippest fashion magazine of the Nineties. Guests so far include Christy Turlington; Mario Sorrenti; Daryl Hannah; Amber Valletta; Wendy Goodman, Design Editor of New York magazine; Andrea Linett, co-founder of Lucky; Jaime Perlman, editor-in-chief of More or Less; and Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana.  We'll be dropping two episodes per month!  Our six main episodes remain free on all platforms.  Buy Me a Coffee is a lovely way to support our independently produced show. We always need caffeine! Thank you thank you!

    22 sec

  6. APR 26 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Andrea Linett Q&A

    Cohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to their 90s Bazaar colleague Andrea Linett, co-founder and creative director of Lucky magazine and founder of the hit Substack style guide I Want to Be Her! A longtime fashion innovator, Linett recalls discovering a teenage Chloe Sevigny on a downtown sidewalk, lending Kurt Cobain her dad's old V-neck sweater for his iconic Sassy shoot, and how Liz Tilberis didn't get her at first!

    28 min

  7. APR 12 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Wendy Goodman Q&A

    Cohost Dennis Golonka talks to the ultimate style influencer, New York magazine’s much-adored Design Editor, Wendy Goodman, about being one of Liz Tilberis’s first hires for Harper’s Bazaar, how fashion, theater and design are inextricably linked, and her “stalkerish” approach to finding great stories She also reveals what it was like to work with Stella Adler, Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland, and Anna Wintour!

    33 min

  8. MAR 29 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Mario Sorrenti Q&A

    Cohost Dennis Golonka talks to photographer Mario Sorrenti about Harper's Bazaar "catapulting" his career back in 1993 and how the magazine's new Creative Director, Fabien Baron, was the key to Sorrenti booking the Calvin Klein Obsession campaign that made him and then-girlfriend Kate Moss world-famous.

    28 min
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A six-part podcast about fashion's forgotten queen and the biggest moment in Nineties fashion. With Fabien Baron, Paul Cavaco, Grace Coddington, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Isaac Mizrahi, Donna Karan, and Patrick Jephson.

Information

  • Creator
    Dennis Golonka + Cynthia True
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 BLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed Bazaar
  • Show Website
    BLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed Bazaar
  • Provider
    Cynthia True

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