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Amy Odell

Front row topics, back row perspective. Fashion coverage by Amy Odell. amyodell.substack.com

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51:53

Kim Kardashian's 'Brand Is Blankness'

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2025/11/17

The Atlantic staff writer and ⁠Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves⁠ author Sophie Gilbert joins Amy to talk about All's Fair. The new Ryan Murphy show starring Kim Kardashian has received uniformly dire reviews — yet has triumphed in the face of its badness with pretty respectable ratings. Is this the end of competency in culture? Did All's Fair's creators intend for this show to be so terrible? Plus what Kardashian's captivating blankness, on unflinching

14:27

Anna Wintour's 10 Most Influential Covers

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2025/11/13

In honor of Anna Wintour's last Vogue cover as editor-in-chief, featuring Timothée Chalamet, Amy counts down her top 10 most influential covers from over the course of her career. Which ones would you add to the list?(0:23) Why Timothée's cover was a big surprise(1:18) What the social media commenters said about the cover(3:01) The cover countdown begins (6:08) Countdown halfway point(9:14) Anna's number-one most influential cover(10:08) Back Row commenters weigh in on Amy's list and make their

35:47

Was Jane Birkin Unfairly Commodified by Hermès?

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2025/11/10

Amy interviews Marisa Meltzer, author of ⁠It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin⁠, about how Birkin became one of the most famous fashion icons of the sixties. Marisa talks about how she became the inspiration and namesake for the Hermès Birkin bag, and whether or not she was ever paid for this distinction. She also reveals how Birkin really felt about the Birkin bag becoming more famous than her — and much more.(1:19) An excerpt from ⁠the audiobook of Amy's latest book, Gwyneth: The Biography⁠

42:55

Victoria Beckham's Netflix Show: Infomercial or...

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2025/11/03

Amy sits down with Ryan Bailey, host of ⁠So Bad It's Good⁠, to analyze Victoria Beckham's Netflix docu-series. They discuss how it compared to David Beckham's docuseries and RJ Cutler's docs about Martha Stewart and Anna Wintour; what makes Victoria so appealing; what the show blatantly left out; and how the Victoria Beckham fashion line is actually performing as a business.For more, follow ⁠So Bad It's Good with Ryan Bailey⁠.Follow Ryan on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠YouTube⁠.Read Amy's earlier review of

8:50

The Row's Sample Sale Was WILD

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2025/10/28

The Row's sample sale just wrapped in New York City. The slew of haul vlogs fans of the brand posted after pillaging the sale resulted in some of the best content involving influencers since the Fyre Festival. What do these tell us about the brand and the current state of shopping culture? Amy explores.This story ⁠originally appeared in the Back Row newsletter⁠.Also discussed in the show:⁠The only The Row haul parody you need⁠.Amy's earlier reporting on The Row from Back Row: ⁠Can the Olsens Make

33:38

Avery Trufelman on the Origins of Comfortable...

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2025/10/27

Avery Trufelman, host of the Articles of Interest podcast, discusses her new season, including: the origins of modern menswear; why everything we wear is "performance" clothing; the origins of gorpcore; Greta Lee's new Vogue cover; and much more.This is an extended audio version of the October 21, 2025 issue of the Back Row newsletter. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amyodell.substack.com/subscribe

34:35

The Gwyneth Paltrow Episode

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2025/10/20

Today, we have a Paltrow pod! I was stunned last week when Gwyneth Paltrow devoted a good portion of her British Vogue cover story to discussing my book, Gwyneth: The Biography. I had asked today’s guests — Linus Karp and Joseph Martin, the stars and creators of the play Gwyneth Goes Skiing — on the podcast in advance of the publication of that story (their play is running in New York again through November 16). We were able to discuss that, how Gwyneth might feel about their production, and much

9:46

Victoria Beckham Is One of Those Heroes Who Doesn’t...

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2025/10/14

Amy's review of the Victoria Beckham Netflix docu-series. Plus "Loose Threads" about Anna Wintour, Victoria's Secret, and more. Get full access to Back Row at amyodell.substack.com/subscribe

34:40

The Best and Worst of the Spring 2026 Shows

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2025/10/13

Amy is joined by Dana Thomas, fashion journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Deluxe, to pick spring 2026 Fashion Month Awards. Categories include: Most Baffling Success; Best Debut; Most Polarizing Collection; and more.For more stories like this, subscribe to ⁠Amy's YouTube channel.Get more from Dana Thomas in ⁠her Style Files newsletter⁠.Books referenced: Amy's ⁠Anna: The Biography⁠; ⁠Dana's Gods & Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano⁠ Get full access to Back

8:06

The Verdict on Matthieu Blazy's Chanel Debut |...

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2025/10/08

Amy reviews designer Matthieu Blazy's historic debut collection for Chanel.This podcast is based on ⁠this issue of her Back Row newsletter⁠.Also referenced: ⁠this "Retail Confessions" column⁠ where a former Chanel sales person talks about what it was really like working in the store selling to some of the world's wealthiest people. Get full access to Back Row at amyodell.substack.com/subscribe

7:36

Jonathan Anderson's Strange Dior Debut

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2025/10/02

Well, it happened. Jonathan Anderson showed his first Dior women’s collection.This has been a long time coming. So, is fashion forever changed? Is everyone happy now?Well, not really. Get full access to Back Row at amyodell.substack.com/subscribe

1:37

Introducing the Back Row Podcast

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2025/10/01

I’m thrilled to announce that Back Row is launching as a podcast! You can watch and/or listen to the trailer above. Ahead, find a handy guide to what this means for you as a Back Row subscriber.Why are you doing a podcast?Well, Gwyneth: The Biography audiobook sales have been blowing up for me lately, which tells me that the audience who likes my work really likes to listen. I know from my own media consumption habits that I seldom seem to wash a dish or water a plant without a podcaster talking in

39:22

Talking Couture, the Birkin Auction, and Anna Wintour...

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2025/07/10

Thank you Scott Postma, The Closet Debrief, Yvonna Russell, Katherine, Andrea, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana Thomas! You can watch the replay in case you missed it, featuring discussion of:* The Birkin bag auction in Paris today. Jane Birkin’s original bag sold for a staggering $10.1 million, making the $13,000 you’d spend on a new one at retail look like chump change. Is there a way to view this other than: some people have too much money? We discuss.* Highlights

47:39

Live: Talking Fall 2025, Versace, Demna, and More...

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2025/03/13

Fellow fashion journalist Dana Thomas, who writes Style Files, and I just did our first live video chat here on Substack. If you missed it, you can watch it above. (I will also publish the audio as a podcast soon.) We had lots of news to discuss, including:* Donatella Versace’s succesion.* The fall 2025 shows. Dana and I each gave our three wins and three fails from the recent season.* Should fashion month be truncated? (Spoiler alert: Yes.)* LVMH succession drama — will Bernard Arnault’s kids ever

67:53

Bonus Audio: Discussing Pharrell's Louis Vuitton...

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2023/02/21

Louis Vuitton surprised a lot of people when it appointed Pharrell creative director of menswear, finally answering the question of who would succeed Virgil Abloh. I wrote about this in the Back Row story, “Pharrell for Louis Vuitton and the Celebrification of Everything.” While I was surprised if not stunned, Style Zeitgeist founder and fashion critic Eugene Rabkin was not surprised at all. Prior to the announcement, he had casually predicted in an Instagram Q&A that Abloh’s successor would be A$AP

50:15

Listen: Discussing Demna's Comeback with Eugene Rabkin

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2023/02/13

Vogue recently published the first interview Balenciaga designer Demna has done since the brand’s ad campaign scandals burst into the news late last year. The campaigns led to widespread accusations that the brand was promoting child pornography. So, a lot was on the line when Demna sat down with an unknown representative from Vogue (Vogue did not byline the story, which is not typical for this kind of piece). The first person I wanted to chat about it with was Eugene Rabkin, the founder of Style

3:27

André Leon Talley's Thoughts on the Met Gala

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2022/05/01

Thank you for subscribing to Back Row. This post draws on exclusive reporting from my book ANNA: The Biography, out Tuesday, May 3 (check out the latest review in the New York Times). If you are new here, don’t forget to subscribe to support independent fashion and culture journalism and get more posts like this delivered to your inbox around twice a week.Like many people, I could listen to André Leon Talley talk for hours. He could describe a construction site or a blade of grass and I would be at

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