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What"s Contemporary Now?

What"s Contemporary

Designed for curious minds, "What"s Contemporary Now?" engages various thought leaders across cultural industries taking in their broad, compelling perspectives and unveiling their common threads. Hosted by Christopher Michael Produced by Shayan Asadi

arts fashion & beauty

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1:01

Happy Holidays!

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/12/23

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49:05

Angelo Flaccavento on Taste, Doubt, and the Beauty of...

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/12/15

Angelo Flaccavento has long been one of fashion’s most distinctive critical voices — sharp yet empathetic, rigorous yet imaginative, always willing to question his own certainties. In this conversation, he traces his path from a Sicilian childhood spent absorbing magazines in boutique backrooms to becoming a writer whose clarity and candor designers both fear and admire.We discuss the formative power of self-doubt, the responsibility of the critic in an era shaped by branding and algorithms, and

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42:58

Camille Miceli on Pucci, Play, and Joie de Vivre

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/12/08

Camille Miceli brings a vivid, almost incandescent joie de vivre to Pucci, treating color, movement, and intuition as both vocabulary and philosophy. Her worldview is shaped by an upbringing steeped in art and fashion, and by formative chapters with Alaïa, Lagerfeld, Jacobs, and Raf Simons — each adding a layer to her finely tuned sense of glamour and discipline.She reflects on the value of frivolity in an anxious age, the necessity of surrounding oneself with challengers rather than cheerleaders,

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35:35

Matthew Whitehouse and The Face of Today

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/12/01

In this episode, Matthew Whitehouse reflects on the winding path from a rainy Lancashire childhood and a brief burst of band-life glamour to leading The Face, a title forever suspended between myth and reinvention. He speaks with disarming clarity about reviving an icon without embalming it, insisting that the magazine’s only true mandate is to capture the texture of now — not nostalgia, not futurism, but the pulse of the present.We explore the politics that slip in through lived experience rather

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51:45

Recho Omondi’s Candor, Curiosity, and The Cutting...

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/11/24

Recho Omondi, host of The Cutting Room Floor, handles candor with the ease of someone who has little interest in performance and every interest in clarity. Over seven years, her once-modest podcast has steadily entered the cultural foreground, helped along by her habit of thinking — and learning — in public.She moves fluidly between roles: moderating conversations, appearing on other platforms, or steering her own interviews with a mix of composure and quiet provocation. There is an unmistakable

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44:29

The World According to LDSS

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/11/17

In his first-ever podcast interview, Ludovic de Saint Sernin traces the journey from a nomadic childhood to becoming one of fashion’s most closely watched voices. He talks about the diary-like beginnings of his brand, the Mapplethorpe collaboration that became a full-circle moment, and why he sometimes becomes his own muse.We explore queerness, visibility, and the tension between intimacy and scale as his label grows, along with how travel, community, and personal history shape his work. He's a

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41:58

The New Masculinity, According to Samuel Hine

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/11/10

For GQ’s global fashion correspondent Samuel Hine, clothes have always been more than fabric; they were a form of identity long before they became his career. Growing up as an identical twin in Chicago, he learned early that style could be a language of individuality. That instinct eventually led him to New York, a meeting with Will Welch (through a friend of his grandmother, no less), and what’s now a decade-long career shaping how we read and interpret menswear.In this conversation, we talk

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46:15

Sarah Ball on Editing What’s Contemporary Now at WSJ....

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/11/03

At this year’s WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards, Billie Eilish asked, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? Give your money away” — a line that instantly reverberated far beyond the room. It was a reminder of the event’s magnetic pull and its place as a mirror for culture’s contradictions. Under Editor in Chief Sarah Ball, WSJ. Magazine has become precisely that kind of reflection: glamorous, self-aware, and culturally indispensable. In this episode, Ball reflects on her path from a

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46:30

Tish Weinstock Is an Amorphous and Contemporary It Girl

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/10/27

Talking to Tish Weinstock offers the kind of unfiltered honesty — or, as she calls it, radical honesty — that every interviewer hopes to find in a guest. She has a unique ability to move between the frivolous and the deeply meaningful with equal parts wit and whimsy, leaving you to wonder whether she’s someone who refuses to take herself too seriously or simply someone who won’t struggle against whatever feels truthful in the moment.Whether you know her from her work as a writer, her time in front

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39:25

Adam Selman Tells Us Victoria’s Secret

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/10/20

The morning after his show debut as Victoria’s Secret’s new Creative Director, Adam Selman joined me to talk through the emotions still vibrating from the night before. The conversation moved from backstage calm to creative catharsis, touching on the full-circle moment of opening the show with Jasmine Tookes, who walked his first-ever presentation years ago. This isn’t a conversation about lingerie or spectacle, it’s more about connection, leadership, and the power of joy as a design principle

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34:58

Observant and Optimistic, AREA’s Nicholas Aburn

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/10/13

Nicholas Aburn’s path to AREA was never a straight line. He grew up watching CNN Style with his mother, worked full time at Prada while studying at Central Saint Martins, and famously failed under Louise Wilson before showing his collection anyway and becoming the first in his class to get a job when he was hired by Tom Ford. He now calls that failure a “delayed education,” one that taught him how to manage his own creative and emotional state — a lesson more valuable than any critique. From Ford,

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41:51

The Shape of Reverence with Jerry Lorenzo

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/10/06

When we first thought to sit down with Jerry Lorenzo, we planned to talk about culture, fashion, the first official womenswear collection from Fear of God, and the unique background that made his future feel wide open — though not necessarily destined for fashion. We did all of that, but the timely wisdom he shared reached far beyond the industry. Lorenzo speaks with the calm authority of someone who knows where he stands and why, and his reflections feel essential — filled with the kind of clarity

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0:52

Season 6 Trailer

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/09/29

What’s more contemporary than the pursuit of happiness? The restless task of creating it, sustaining it, sharing it. It’s a game not so far from that of the creative class, with its inevitable demand for the next turn, the next gesture, the next affirmation of relevance. Designers, editors, critics, even self-anointed new media mavens know it all too well. Exploring larger cultural truths in their microcosmic forms is a habit we’ve happily returned to this season, and one we look forward to sharing

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1:17

A Season in Progress, A World in Flux

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/07/07

While the world appears to have taken leave of anything resembling objective reality, and our feeds continue to oscillate between the surreal and the mundane in a choreography of dissonance, we have returned to the quiet act of making. Production on the new season is underway, and with it comes the opportunity to explore the role creativity holds within culture. More than ornament, it serves as reflection, as resistance, and occasionally, as remedy.Whether through personal narrative or

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40:11

Editing Creative Culture with System Magazine’s...

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/05/19

In recent years, it’s become harder to tell whether fashion can still stand on its own, without leaning on the scaffolding of sport, film, or whatever cultural tentpole happens to be in rotation. But with the sustained relevance of System and the sharp ambition behind its latest expansion, Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Wingfield offers a clear answer: yes—fashion can still trade on itself.It is a business, unquestionably—but a beautifully complex one, in constant dialogue with culture. And in that

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31:52

Where Optimism Meets Realism with Carlos Nazario

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/05/12

It’s easy to repeat oneself in fashion. Certain truths return again and again, not because we lack imagination, but because they remain unresolved. One of them is this—authenticity isn’t rare because people are unwilling to be real, but because many still don’t know who they are. Carlos Nazario does. And more than that, he shows up as himself, without spectacle and without self-mythologizing.What makes this conversation compelling isn’t only his perspective on fashion or culture. It’s the way he

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0:58

Met Ball Monday

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/05/05

It is Monday, but not just any Monday. It's the first Monday in May queue. The flash bulbs, the group chats, the live tweets, the MET Gala is here, and with it, the annual flood of speculation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:31

How Lyas Built a Career by Staying Unapologetically...

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/04/28

Describing Lyas as a "fashion narrator" rather than a critic or commentator feels curiously apt in a moment when fashion could use a little more imagination and a little less judgment. Storytelling, after all, is what he does best — with a kind of honesty that carries weight without ever feeling heavy. Unlike many of his peers, Lyas is as much a creator as he is a commentator, sculpting himself into a living performance while quietly building a world behind the scenes with two films already in the

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42:27

Icons of the Edit: Paul Cavaco and Tonne Goodman

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/04/22

In fashion, there are stylists—and then there are image-makers. As the “C” in KCD and one of the first male editors to define women’s fashion editorial, Paul Cavaco helped shape the modern visual vocabulary of the 1990s, styling everything from Harper’s Bazaar under Liz Tilberis to Madonna’s era-defining Sex book with Steven Meisel and Fabien Baron. Tonne Goodman, whose early days included modeling for Richard Avedon and assisting Diana Vreeland, brought that same instinct for clarity and cultural

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1:46

We Want to Hear From You

What"s Contemporary Now? ·

2025/04/15

While it’s nearly impossible to open your eyes without encountering some news item signaling uncertainty or disruption, we couldn’t help but find excitement in the inevitability of change—even when that change isn’t exactly what we might have chosen ourselves. With the season’s remaining episodes ahead, it felt like the right moment to invite audience participation by opening the mic to your questions—ones you’d like answered by the creatives who make up our incredible cast.DM us on Instagram or

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