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In 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. To add fuel to the fire, 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 Liz gathered around her, the super-secret September launch, and the magazine cover that shook the industry and announced the new Nineties minimalism.   Co-hosts Cynthia True and Dennis Golonka recall starting their careers at Liz Tilberis’s new Bazaar and talk to their former Bazaar colleagues, including creative director Fabien Baron and editors Paul Cavaco, Tonne Goodman, and Richard Sinnott. Plus, Linda Evangelista, Isaac Mizrahi, and Liz’s best friend, former Vogue creative director Grace Coddington. Buy Me a Coffee is a lovely way to support our independently produced show. We always need caffeine! Thank you!

A six-part podcast about the resurrection of Harper's Bazaar in 1992 and the visionary editor who led it, Liz Tilberis. For a brief, glorious era, she gave Vogue a run for its money—and her old boss, Anna Wintour, too.  Buy Me a Coffee is a lovely way to support our independently produced show. We always need caffeine! Thank you!

Advertising veteran and Former Harper’s Bazaar Art Director Paul Eustace talks about meeting young Liz Tilberis for the first time, how working with her and Fabien Baron changed his work forever, and what it took to get a really good Princess Diana cover.

Cohosts 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. 

Photographer David Sims talks about "the runaway train" his career became when Liz and Fabien put him under contract in '93, the affinity (and gratitude) he felt for former Bazaar photographer Richard Avedon, and shooting Linda Evangelista for an iconic "comeback" story at a moment when supermodels were supposedly dead.

Cynthia True talks to Alison Edmond, Artistic and Fashion Director of the Hollywood Reporter, about art-directing some 40 covers a year at THR (one of which just won a National Magazine Award), starting her career at British Vogue with Liz Tilberis and becoming her West Coast Editor at Harper's Bazaar in '93. They also chat about Alison working with her idol, photographer Peter Lindbergh (@therealpeterlindbergh); shooting Prince at 1 am after the Grammys; and the moment Liz “saved her” early in her career.

Cohosts 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! 

Cohost Dennis Golonka talks to the ultimate style influencer, New York magazine’s much-adored Design Editor, Wendy Goodman, about being one of Liz Tilberis’s first hires for Harper’s Bazaar, how fashion, theater and design are inextricably linked, and her “stalkerish” approach to finding great stories She also reveals what it was like to work with Stella Adler, Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland, and Anna Wintour!

Cohost 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. 

Dennis Golonka talks to a favorite old work friend, Jaime Perlman, editor-in-chief of More or Less magazine, former Creative Director of British Vogue—and ex-Bazaar art department assistant—about starting her career with Fabien Baron, making the leap to Vogue, and taking inspiration from Liz Tilberis when she started her own groundbreaking magazine.

Hosts 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. 

Cohosts 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. 

Cohosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True talk to Daryl Hannah—the first movie star Liz Tilberis put on the cover of Bazaar—about the fame game, her instant connection to Liz, and why that Bazaar shoot remains her all-time favorite to this day. ‹

Cohost 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. 

For 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. Buy Me a Coffee is a lovely way to support our independently produced show. We always need caffeine! Thank you!