Fashion People

I appreciate the mix of guests and topics on this podcast and I always learn something new about the fashion industry. But please, Lauren, can you let your guests talk? So often you ramble or ask these very leading questions! I’d love for the guests voices to shine a bit more in the interview portions of the show.

The host focuses too much on herself and all she’s done—who cares? There’s a ton of name-dropping and trying too hard to be an influencer. Too little about actual fashion and next to no reflection, analysis, or even sentiment, esp. compared to Vogue’s podcasts, BoF, or Bella Freud’s podcast. This podcast could be really interesting but instead, it’s terribly boring.

I like when she sticks to her newsletters and covers the news but when Lauren goes off on a tangent it gets very distracting and drags on the episode. Also, she tries to sound humble and she claims she’s not not like a fashionista but then talks about how she buys The Row, Chanel, Prada, etc. As a successful professional woman she’s of course entitled to that and can talk about that, but the faux humbleness comes across very disingenuous.

The overall tone of the pod is someone trying to relive the glory days of her youth.