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Monocle on Fashion

Get up to speed, stay on point and ensure that you’re always fashion-forward with this new programme from Monocle Radio. Monocle on Fashion covers the industry from our unique point of view. Hosted by Monocle’s fashion director, Natalie Theodosi, the show will bring you big interviews, breaking fashion news and special reports. Plus: go behind the scenes everywhere from fashion weeks to trade fairs, and visit studios and ateliers, old and new.

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Gabriela Hearst’s new chapter: Uruguayan designer Gabriela Hearst takes us inside her world. She shares the inspiration behind her designs as she moves into a new phase with her eponymous brand after stepping down as Chloé’s creative director.

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5	20 Dec 2024 33 min	Gabriela Hearst’s new chapter Uruguayan designer Gabriela Hearst takes us inside her world. She shares the inspiration behind her designs as she moves into a new phase with her eponymous brand after stepping down as Chloé’s creative director.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	13 Dec 2024 23 min	Under the covers: ‘The Forecast’ with Nic Monisse and James Chambers As ‘The Forecast’ hits the stands, design editor Nic Monisse and Asia editor James Chambers join Natalie Theodosi to talk about the people, places and market trends that will set the agenda for 2025. nn	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
4	6 Dec 2024 29 min	Uniqlo’s new creative director, Clare Waight Keller The new creative director of Uniqlo, Clare Waight Keller, who was previously the artistic director of brands including Chloe and Givenchy, speaks about her unorthodox career move, the joy in designing for the many and what the Japanese fashion business can teach its European counterparts.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	3 Dec 2024 21 min	Backstage at the Fashion Awards 2024 Straight off the stage, @nattheodosi speaks to winning designers including Chopova Lowena,16Arlington's Marco Capaldo and Simone Rocha, as well as photographer Tyler Mitchell.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	29 Nov 2024 12 min	Under the covers: Monocle photo editor Alex Milnes From commissioning work that’s always fresh to finding new talent, Alex Milnes talks us through the photography in the fashion pages of Monocle’s December/January issue.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3	22 Nov 2024 31 min	The art of millinery with Stephen Jones As ‘Stephen Jones, chapeaux d’artiste’ opens at Palais Galliera in Paris, the legendary hat designer talks to Natalie Theodosi about being a Blitz Kid in 1980s London, his long working relationship with Dior and why this exhibition is not a retrospective.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	15 Nov 2024 17 min	Under the covers: editor Sophie Grove on making the winter-fashion pages of ‘Konfekt’ The joys of discussing jewellery round a table with a good glass of wine, the artistry of buyers and a Polish boutique with an apt name, Warsaw Wonders. Editor Sophie Gove talks us through what makes a winter issue distinctly ‘Konfekt’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2	8 Nov 2024 27 min	The women of Miu Miu Italian luxury label Miu Miu has reported a 105 per cent rise in revenues – growing at a time when the majority of its rivals are seeing their sales decline. Part of its success is the way it participates in culture. This year the brands partnered with Art Basel Paris, bringing its ongoing ‘Women’s Tales’ film series to life with an exhibition that blended film, music, choreography and fashion. Natalie Theodosi speaks with one of the exhibition’s curators, Goshka Macuga and two of its filmmakers, Meriem Bennani and Haifa Al Mansour to understand the brand’s global appeal.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	1 Nov 2024 13 min	Under the covers: The inside story on Bally’s new creative director Monocle’s editors and correspondents take you behind the scenes on the making of the magazine’s fashion pages. As our November issue hits newsstands, our design correspondent Stella Roos tell us about reporting the issue’s lead fashion story: a deep dive into Swiss heritage house Bally.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
1	24 Oct 2024 34 min	Michael Kliger, Mytheresa CEO For the first episode of ‘Monocle on Fashion’, we sit down with Mytheresa CEO Michael Kliger to discuss how the Munich-based retailer became the biggest success story in luxury e-commerce. We talk about curation, customer service and, of course, the company’s decision to acquire its biggest competitor, the Yoox Net-a-Porter Group.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	23 Oct 2024 9 min	Coming soon: Monocle on Fashion Monocle’s fashion editor, Natalie Theodosi, introduces a new programme covering the industry from our unique point of view. Get up to speed, stay on point and ensure that you’re always fashion-forward with Monocle on Fashion, coming soon to Monocle Radio.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

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Monocle on Fashion

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Latest episodes

Gabriela Hearst’s new chapter

Under the covers: ‘The Forecast’ with Nic Monisse and James Chambers

Uniqlo’s new creative director, Clare Waight Keller

Backstage at the Fashion Awards 2024

Under the covers: Monocle photo editor Alex Milnes

The art of millinery with Stephen Jones

Under the covers: editor Sophie Grove on making the winter-fashion pages of ‘Konfekt’

The women of Miu Miu

Under the covers: The inside story on Bally’s new creative director

Michael Kliger, Mytheresa CEO

Coming soon: Monocle on Fashion