Podcast Episodes

The Fraught History of Naming Celebrities 'World's Most Beautiful'

People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful" editor Andrea Lavinthal joins Back Row to go behind the scenes of the most coveted — and complicated — cov…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Met Gala 2026: The Bezos Backlash, Devil Wears Prada 2, and What It All Means for Anna Wintour

The 2026 Met Gala has three storylines running at once: Jeff and Lauren Bezos as lead sponsors, The Devil Wears Prada 2 opening the Friday before, an…

3 months, 1 week ago

12 Ultra-Rich People Opened Up About What Money Did to Them

What does extreme wealth actually do to a person? Their psychology, their relationships, their behavior?

New York Magazine features writer Lane Brown…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Anna Wintour Did the 'Vogue' Cover

This is the audio version of the Back Row newsletter published April 7, 2022.

What on earth is Anna Wintour doing on the cover of Vogue?! A theory as…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

'The Devil Wears Prada' Rewatch: Was 'Vogue' Really Like That?

How much was Vogue really like The Devil Wears Prada? Amy Odell sits down with former Vanity Fair critic and the author of the Premiere Party newslet…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Are We Living Through a New Gilded Age?

Will Kris Jenner's birthday party be immortalized on an HBO show in a hundred years?

Maybe.

The Gilded Age was America’s first era of extreme wealth…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Tech Billionaires Are Becoming Fashion’s New Kardashians

Are tech billionaires the next Kardashians?

From Mark Zuckerberg sitting front row at Prada to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Met Gala sponsorship, …

4 months ago

Inside JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’s Life on Cape Cod

What did Love Story get wrong about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette? Amy Odell sits down with Kate Storey, author of White House by the Sea, to break do…

4 months ago

Joh Galliano for... Zara?!

This is the audio version of the Back Row newsletter published Tuesday, March 17.

After waiting two years for John Galliano's next move, we finally …

4 months, 1 week ago

The Oscars’ Biggest Fashion Stories: Anna Wintour, the Timothée Backlash, & Is Chanel Good Again?

Amy Odell is joined by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan of ⁠Go Fug Yourself⁠ and the ⁠Drinks With Broads⁠ newsletter to break down the biggest fashio…

4 months, 1 week ago