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BLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarBlow-Up Bonus Q&As are here!Subscribe to listen to our bonus Q&As with the models, celebrities, stylists, photographers, and, of course, the editors who made Harper's Bazaar the hippest fashion magazine of the Nineties. Guests so far include Christy Turlington; Mario Sorrenti; Daryl Hannah; Amber Valletta; Wendy Goodman, Design Editor of New York magazine; Andrea Linett, co-founder of Lucky; Jaime Perlman, editor-in-chief of More or Less; and Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana. We'll be dropping two episodes per month! Our six main episodes remain free on all platforms. 2025-04-2600 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarThe ReunionFor the first time in decades, the supergroup that made Harper's Bazaar the coolest fashion magazine of the Nineties—Creative Director Fabien Baron, Co-Fashion Directors Paul Cavaco and Tonne Goodman, and Accessories Director Richard Sinnott—reunites with former colleagues and co-hosts Cynthia True and Dennis Golonka to talk about how working with editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis was lightning-in-a-bottle.2025-02-1137 min
Fashion PeopleFashion in the Golden Age of Magazines and Sabato’s Farewell (Finally)Lauren is joined by former 'Harper’s Bazaar' editors Cynthia True and Dennis Golonka, hosts of 'Blow-Up: When Liz Tilberis Transformed Bazaar.' (If you haven’t listened, you should.) They discuss what it was like to work at a glossy magazine in the 1990s (from the expense accounts to the dress code), how today’s fashion industry would be different if Liz were still around (she tragically died of cancer in 1999), and why they wanted to tell her story. Lauren also dips into what designer Sabato de Sarno’s sudden exit from Gucci means for parentco Kering. 2025-02-0752 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarAndrea Linett Q&ACohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to their 90s Bazaar colleague Andrea Linett, co-founder and creative director of Lucky magazine and founder of the hit Substack style guide I Want to Be Her! A longtime fashion innovator, Linett recalls discovering a teenage Chloe Sevigny on a downtown sidewalk, lending Kurt Cobain her dad's old v-neck sweater for his iconic Sassy shoot, and how Liz Tilberis didn't get her at first! Instagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2025-01-2128 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarAndrea Linett Q&ACohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to former 90s Bazaar editor Andrea Linett, one of the most innovative minds in fashion: Andrea started her career at America’s first cool teen magazine, Sassy, where she gave Chloë Sevigny an internship; co-founded Lucky, a Japanese-influenced magazine “about shopping” that made dressing chic accessible; and created the inspired shopping-and-style Substack "I Wanna Be Her!" Andrea remembers the time she lent Kurt Cobain her dad’s sweater for a shoot, how Liz Tilberis didn’t get her when she first got to Bazaar, and why her nickname around the office was Dirtbag. 2025-01-0328 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarThe ReunionFor the first time in decades, the supergroup that made Harper's Bazaar the coolest fashion magazine of the Nineties—Creative Director Fabien Baron, co-Fashion Directors Paul Cavaco and Tonne Goodman, and Accessories Director Richard Sinnott—reunite to talk about how working with Liz Tilberis was lightning-in-a-bottle.If you're enjoying the show, please Buy Us a CoffeeInstagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2024-12-0537 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarDavid Sims Q&ACohost Dennis Golonka talks to photographer David Sims about his influences, starting his career at Harper's Bazaar in '93, and his philosophy about photography today. Instagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2024-11-2131 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarA Changing LandscapeFor the first three years of Bazaar's comeback, Hearst Magazines gave Liz Tilberis and her team carte blanche. But by 1995, the magazine world was getting leaner, and Liz was under pressure to cut costs and kick up newsstand sales. Her solution? Celebrity. And lots of it. Suddenly, actresses, rock stars, and royalty graced the cover almost as often as supermodels. Inside, you were as likely to see Pamela Anderson shot by Peter Lindbergh as Amber Valletta. But Liz's cleverest use of celebrity came when she co-chaired the Met Gala in 1996; she created a slightly surreal Christian Dior tribute (with...2024-11-1439 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarJill Kargman Q&ACohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to writer, actress—and former Bazaar intern—Jill Kargman about growing up at the center of the fashion world, why her family's connection to Liz Tilberis went way beyond business and the most important thing she learned at Bazaar. Instagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2024-11-0729 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarChristy Turlington Q&ACohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to supermodel Christy Turlington about the pivotal role Liz Tilberis played in her early career, what made their relationship unusual in fashion--and her take on what the 90s was really like. Instagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2024-10-3122 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarCivilized WarfareWhen Liz Tilberis relaunched Harper's Bazaar in 1992, the fact that she was Anna Wintour's former right-hand—and her polar opposite—fueled press stories about a feud between fashion's top two editors. Some of it was drummed up, and some of it wasn't. In this episode, cohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to friends and colleagues, including Grace Coddington, Paul Cavaco, Tonne Goodman, Susan Magrino, and Isaac Mizrahi, about the truth of Anna and Liz's complicated relationship and about how Liz remains Anna's only real rival to this day. 2024-10-2439 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarMario Sorrenti Q&ACohost Dennis Golonka talks to photographer Mario Sorrenti about Harper's Bazaar "catapulting" his career back in 1993 and how the magazine's new Creative Director, Fabien Baron, was the key to Sorrenti booking the Calvin Klein Obsession campaign that made him and then-girlfriend Kate Moss world-famous. Instagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2024-10-1727 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarPatrick Jephson Q&ACohost Cynthia True talks to Patrick Jephson, Princess Diana's former private secretary, about the sister-like bond that developed between the Princess and Liz Tilberis as Diana transformed from a shy teenager into an international superstar. Instagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2024-10-1041 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarAmber Valletta Q&AHosts Cynthia True and Dennis Golonka interview Amber Valletta about the early days of her career, the whole grunge thing, and the beauty of Nineties Bazaar. Instagram @BlowuppodTikTok @Blowuppod2024-10-0323 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarOn EdgeLess than two years into Bazaar’s triumphant return, the magazine’s spare sculptural look was being imitated everywhere. Bazaar had, practically overnight, defined a new visual landscape. But as the competition scrambled to copy Fabien’s innovative use of typography and negative space, Liz and Fab kept moving, mixing supermodels and street photographers, grunge and glam, punk and posh. In this episode, we talk to Fabien Baron, Paul Cavaco, Linda Evangelista, Tonne Goodman, Elissa Santisi, David Sims, Richard Sinnott, Mario Sorrenti, and Amber Valletta about some of the most important fashion shoots of the Nineties, stories still widely refere...2024-09-2629 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarThe Angel in ChanelLiz Tilberis was nice. Legendarily nice. People claimed that when she fired an editor, they left feeling they’d won something. (They usually left with a chic little gift, too.) In this episode, we explore the way that Liz’s natural warmth and ability to charm assistants and royalty alike made her not only something of a unicorn in fashion but fueled her ascent from Sixties London art student to editor of British Vogue and contributed to the unlikely success of her Harper’s Bazaar. With Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Grace Coddington, and Patrick Jephson, former private secreta...2024-09-1948 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarEnter EleganceIn 1992, Vogue was, as it is today, the global fashion authority, and Anna Wintour was its already-famous leader. But an upset—to this day, the only one of Wintour’s reign— was in the offing. Just a few days into the New Year, Hearst announced they were reviving the long-comatose Harper’s Bazaar, which was once Vogue’s greatest rival. And they were bringing in Liz Tilberis, the warm white-haired size-twelve editor of British Vogue—and Anna Wintour’s former second in command—to lead the charge. In “Enter Elegance,” we tell the story of the editorial dream team that Liz gather...2024-09-1243 minBLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed BazaarTrailera six-part documentary podcast about fashion's forgotten queen and the biggest moment in Nineties fashion. 2024-09-1201 min