Front Row with Audrey Charlyes : The Confidential Edition

American fashion threw its biggest party of the year on Monday night, and the CFDA Fashion Awards were presented by Amazon Fashion. Yes, that Amazon, the one that seized 15 million counterfeit products in 2025. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes breaks down the winners, from Rachel Scott’s second Womenswear Designer of the Year win for Diotima to Ralph Lauren’s menswear prize, plus the vintage and denim moments that stole the night. Then it’s time for the dupe economy: what separates a fake from a dupe, why the courts can’t decide, how superfakes are fooling even the experts, and how...

Fashion month is over, and the numbers are in. Out of every look on the Spring/Summer 2027 runways in New York, London, Milan and Paris, only 2.5% went to mid-size and plus-size models. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes, former curvy model and body-positivity advocate, asks who is actually allowed on the runway. Why is fashion suddenly celebrating older models but not bigger ones? Why are designers padding corsets and panniers onto size-zero bodies instead of casting real curves? What's really behind the backslide: sample sizes, the weight-loss-jab era, or plain old habit? And why is luxury ignoring a $114 billion market...

Fashion month is over, and the numbers are in. Out of every look on the Spring/Summer 2027 runways in New York, London, Milan and Paris, only 2.5% went to mid-size and plus-size models. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes, former curvy model and body-positivity advocate, asks who is actually allowed on the runway. Why is fashion suddenly celebrating older models but not bigger ones? Why are designers padding corsets and panniers onto size-zero bodies instead of casting real curves? What's really behind the backslide: sample sizes, the weight-loss-jab era, or plain old habit? And why is luxury ignoring a $114 billion market...

Shanghai Fashion Week just staged nearly 100 shows, and here are the ten that matter: five I loved (Samuel Gui Yang, Pronounce, Oude Waag, Mark Gong, Hemu), four in the middle, and one that missed the point entirely. 🇨🇳

Then we fly to Los Angeles for the Academy Museum Gala: Hunter Schafer's black velvet Prada, Taylor Swift in Dior, Kendall's three kinds of polka dots, and Kim Kardashian in archival 1951 Balenciaga. 🎬 Plus the business nobody talks about: how archive and vintage pieces travel from private dealers and house archives to the red carpet, and why access, not money, decides who wears...

From the runway to the red carpet. Ten Shanghai shows: five I loved, four that were fine, and one that missed the point. Then Kim Kardashian's 1951 Balenciaga, and the business behind it nobody explains. And Kylie Jenner's $50 million Fantasy Bra, on her very first walk. Adriana earned that bra. Kylie got it.

Front Row, Season 3, Episode 6. Thursday.

#Balenciaga #kimkardashian #Shanghai #Fashionshow #fashionweek #victoriassecret #fashionstyle #fashiontrends #trending #redcarpet #style

Three owners. Two authenticators. One divorce. Zero days of actual use. And somehow it's worth more today than the day it was bought.

This week on Front Row, I take you inside the business I actually run: luxury resale. Who makes the money, who takes the commission, why the houses suddenly want their cut, and why your "investment bag" might just be a very expensive dust bag.

#vintage #luxury #resale #vestiairecollective #farfetch #mytheresa #clothes #fashion #business

Three owners. Two authenticators. One divorce. Zero days of actual use. And somehow it's worth more today than the day it was bought.

This week on Front Row, I take you inside the business I actually run: luxury resale. Who makes the money, who takes the commission, why the houses suddenly want their cut, and why your "investment bag" might just be a very expensive dust bag.

New episode Thursday. Check the stitching.

Front Row: The Confidential Edition. Shady, entertaining, critical but never rude.

#collectorsquare #vinted #vestiarecollective #chanel #Schiaparelli #Gucci #vintage...

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 is done, and Audrey has a verdict, and it might surprise you.

In this episode: Julie Kegels' first show since winning the LVMH Prize, Matières Fécales' "99 Percent" takeover of Place de la République, Jonathan Anderson's Dior (and its best accessories in years), Matthieu Blazy's wearable Chanel, Sarah Burton's flawless Givenchy, and Anthony Vaccarello's all-gold farewell at Saint Laurent. Plus Tom Ford's ageless runway, Balmain's new desert-rock era under Antonin Tron, fashion's designer musical chairs, the Miu Miu flop, and Louis Vuitton's flying cars.

So who won the sea...

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 is done, and Audrey has a verdict, and it might surprise you.

In this episode: Julie Kegels' first show since winning the LVMH Prize, Matières Fécales' "99 Percent" takeover of Place de la République, Jonathan Anderson's Dior (and its best accessories in years), Matthieu Blazy's wearable Chanel, Sarah Burton's flawless Givenchy, and Anthony Vaccarello's all-gold farewell at Saint Laurent. Plus Tom Ford's ageless runway, Balmain's new desert-rock era under Antonin Tron, fashion's designer musical chairs, the Miu Miu flop, and Louis Vuitton's flying cars.

So who won the sea...

S3 E3 — Milan Came to Work: Gucci's Store, Armani's Masterclass & The Guests Who Are Always Late

After a disappointing London, Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 remembered what fashion is about. Audrey calls Giorgio Armani a masterclass, celebrates Prada's ode to the skirt, admits she was wrong(-ish) about Louise Trotter at Bottega Veneta, and says something she never thought she'd say: she loved Dolce & Gabbana (casting notes still stand). Plus flowers for Max Mara, Roberto Cavalli, Ferragamo and The Attico, Glenn Martens' Diesel farewell, and a question: why does nobody hype Etro?

Then, Gucci. Demna bu...

S3 E3 — Milan Came to Work: Gucci's Store, Armani's Masterclass & The Guests Who Are Always Late

After a disappointing London, Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 remembered what fashion is about. Audrey calls Giorgio Armani a masterclass, celebrates Prada's ode to the skirt, admits she was wrong(-ish) about Louise Trotter at Bottega Veneta, and says something she never thought she'd say: she loved Dolce & Gabbana (casting notes still stand). Plus flowers for Max Mara, Roberto Cavalli, Ferragamo and The Attico, Glenn Martens' Diesel farewell, and a question: why does nobody hype Etro?

Then, Gucci. Demna bu...

London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 was… an acquired taste. Audrey crowns her winner again (Harris Reed and his fifty shades of white), gives flowers to Richard Quinn, Erdem and Bora Aksu, names Di Petsa's "Holy Milk" her coup de cœur, and asks, very politely, who is choosing the official calendar.

Then, fashion's musical chairs. Glenn Martens exits Diesel after six years to focus on Maison Margiela. Dario Vitale, who did one collection at Versace, becomes the first outsider to lead design at Emporio Armani. And Donatella Versace launches a new fashion and beauty venture with… Revolve.

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London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 was… an acquired taste. Audrey crowns her winner again (Harris Reed and his fifty shades of white), gives flowers to Richard Quinn, Erdem and Bora Aksu, names Di Petsa's "Holy Milk" her coup de cœur, and asks, very politely, who is choosing the official calendar.

Then, fashion's musical chairs. Glenn Martens exits Diesel after six years to focus on Maison Margiela. Dario Vitale, who did one collection at Versace, becomes the first outsider to lead design at Emporio Armani. And Donatella Versace launches a new fashion and beauty ven...

Season 3 opens with no warm-up lap. Audrey pays tribute to Dolly Parton and Bob Mackie — two icons who understood that glamour was never an accident — before delivering a full, unfiltered New York Fashion Week debrief: the standouts (Ralph Lauren, LaQuan Smith, Ulla Johnson, Conner Ives' transatlantic debut), the ones coasting, and one casting choice she's not going to let slide. Then: the CFDA's very bad week, after CEO Steven Kolb was filmed physically restraining PETA activists at the COS show — what it says about an industry whose top diplomat lost his composure on camera. Closing out with a quick, unimpr...

Season 3 opens with no warm-up lap. Audrey pays tribute to Dolly Parton and Bob Mackie — two icons who understood that glamour was never an accident — before delivering a full, unfiltered New York Fashion Week debrief: the standouts (Ralph Lauren, LaQuan Smith, Ulla Johnson, Conner Ives' transatlantic debut), the ones coasting, and one casting choice she's not going to let slide. Then: the CFDA's very bad week, after CEO Steven Kolb was filmed physically restraining PETA activists at the COS show — what it says about an industry whose top diplomat lost his composure on camera. Closing out with a quick, unimpr...

They thought the industry went quiet. It didn't — it just moved off the record.

Season 3 of Front Row: The Confidential Edition premieres September 17th, right after Fashion Week wraps. Twelve weeks. Four cities — New York, London, Milan, Paris — and the business stories the rest of the industry is too polite to say out loud: the creative director exits, the private equity takeovers, the legacy houses rewriting their own history in real time.

Same shade. Same access. Zero filter.

New episodes every Thursday starting September 17th.

Front Row: The Confidential Edition — Audrey Charlyes...

Bad Bunny's couture debut. Taylor Swift's fifteen-million-dollar wedding dress moment for Dior. A whole front row sweating through silicone with zero air conditioning. In this Season 2 finale, Audrey breaks down Paris Couture Week FW26 with fully unfiltered takes — the collections that landed, the ones that didn't, and the irony of a fall-winter showcase staged in a heatwave during the World Cup. Schiaparelli's silicone gamble, Matthieu Blazy's fairy-tale Chanel and the copy-paste discourse it sparked, Jonathan Anderson's forest at Dior, Robert Wun's balloon-studded masterclass, plus Stéphane Rolland, Rahul Mishra, Ashi Studio, Giorgio Armani Privé, Jean Paul Gaul...

Okay so we just survived Paris Couture Week and I have thoughts. Bad Bunny made his couture debut in a buttercream suit. Jonathan Anderson dressed Taylor Swift for her wedding and then came back days later to build an actual forest inside the Musée Rodin. Daniel Roseberry put the entire front row in silicone during a heatwave with no air conditioning — genius, unhinged, iconic, pick one. So we're breaking down the whole week — the gorgeous, the confusing, and the collections that made me actually gasp out loud. This is Front Row. Let's go.

#Parisfashionweek #Schiaparelli #dior #fashi...

Men's SS27, reviewed at forty degrees in the shade. Milan threw a menswear party and the Italians didn't show — Gucci, Fendi and Zegna all ghosted, and it took Ralph Lauren and Thom Browne to save the week. Paris tore up a public lawn for Louis Vuitton, served strawberries in Dior boxes, and crowned three new creative directors. Then — shady, and solo — "The Tunnel Walk": how the World Cup turned player arrivals into the real runway of the summer, who won, who got sold, and why DR Congo's leopard sashes ate everyone alive. The clothes were free. The me...

Interim Special --- Men's SS27 & The Tunnel Walk:

Men's SS27, reviewed at forty degrees in the shade. Milan threw a menswear party and the Italians didn't show — Gucci, Fendi and Zegna all ghosted, and it took Ralph Lauren and Thom Browne to save the week. Paris tore up a public lawn for Louis Vuitton, served strawberries in Dior boxes, and crowned three new creative directors. Then — shady, and solo — "The Tunnel Walk": how the World Cup turned player arrivals into the real runway of the summer, who won, who got sold, and why DR Congo's leopard sashes ate ev...

Oh yes — it’s a Special Edition. I wrote a book.

This spring, I walked away from the front row — to somewhere I had no business being, red notebook in hand. I’m not going to tell you what happened there. That’s the point of the book. But I’ll tell you it undid me, that I was wrong about almost everything, and that there’s one page I wrote on the last day that I’d point to if you asked me why I wrote the whole thing.

So I wrote a book. Th...

We had to come back for it. In this special bonus episode, Audrey Charlyes Jacquet breaks down everything: what the Met Gala actually is and why the world stops for it, this year's theme Costume Art and dress code Fashion Is Art, the co-chair looks from Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Lauren Sánchez Bezos, plus a deep dive into the celebrity looks that had everyone talking — Rihanna, Sabrina Carpenter, Blake Lively, Madonna, Bad Bunny, and more. Unfiltered. Unscheduled. Completely necessary.

Front Row with Audrey Charlyes: The Confidential Edition — Season 2 Special.

#met #gala #fashion #dior...

We made it to the end — and we're going out swinging.

Season 2 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes: The Confidential Edition closes with the episode that doesn't follow the rules, because frankly, fashion stopped following rules a long time ago and nobody said anything.

Fashion Unfiltered is exactly what it sounds like. No theme. No guardrails. Just the questions that kept me up at night this entire season — the ones about who fashion is actually for right now, whether creativity can survive a balance sheet, and why so many of us are still emotionally attached to a...

Season finale. And I'm going in. Today on Front Row — no guests, no filters, no diplomacy. We're talking summer trends, what's actually worth wearing. We're talking fashion shows — do those multi-million dollar productions actually mean anything? And we're talking about the question nobody in the industry wants to answer out loud — are fashion critics still relevant, or did the influencers win? I'm Audrey Charlyes. This is the Confidential Edition. Season Two finale. Let's go out with a bang

. "Four Houses, Four Countries: The Legacy Brands That Shaped Fashion"

Paris. Florence. New York. London. Four cities. Four houses. Four completely different visions of what fashion can be. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes takes you on a global tour of the legacy brands that didn't just dress generations — they defined them. From Christian Dior's post-war revolution to Gucci's chaotic Italian drama, from a kid from the Bronx who sold ties and built an empire to a punk schoolteacher who changed everything from a shop on the King's Road — this is the story of four houses that shaped the...

"Four Houses, Four Countries: The Legacy Brands That Shaped Fashion"

Paris. Florence. New York. London. Four cities. Four houses. Four completely different visions of what fashion can be. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes takes you on a global tour of the legacy brands that didn't just dress generations — they defined them. From Christian Dior's post-war revolution to Gucci's chaotic Italian drama, from a kid from the Bronx who sold ties and built an empire to a punk schoolteacher who changed everything from a shop on the King's Road — this is the story of four houses that shaped the...

Front Row with Audrey Charlyes — Season 2, Episode 10

"The Creative Director Exodus — When Private Equity Kills Creativity"

They came in with a vision. They left with a press release.

This week on Front Row, we're talking about the quiet crisis nobody in fashion wants to name out loud — what happens when private equity walks through the front door and creativity walks out the back.

Marco De Vincenzo at Etro. Harris Reed at Nina Ricci. Nicolas Di Felice at Courrèges. Three houses, three departures, one very uncomfortable pattern.

Because when the boa...

Three departures. Three houses. Two weeks. After Paris Fashion Week Fall 2026, the fashion world woke up to a pattern it can no longer ignore — Marco De Vincenzo out at Etro, Harris Reed out at Nina Ricci, Nicolas Di Felice out at Courrèges. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes breaks down what's really behind the revolving door of creative directors, why private equity and investment funds are quietly reshaping — and sometimes suffocating — the creative soul of fashion houses, and what this endless musical chairs game means for the future of the industry. Conversational, sharp, and completely unfiltered. This is Front Row — C...

"Luxury Is Lying to You — And You're Still Paying For It"

Luxury houses have been raising their prices for years — but are they actually delivering more value? This week on Front Row, Audrey Charlyes takes on the biggest identity crisis in fashion history.

From Chanel's bag prices doubling in five years to the quiet rise of mid-market brands like COS, Totême, and Jacquemus filling the gap that luxury left behind — the throne is up for grabs. And while the heritage houses were busy protecting their margins, a new generation of consumers started...

Luxury raised its prices. It didn't raise its game. And now the middle market is winning. This week, Audrey breaks down the biggest identity crisis fashion has ever seen: when luxury stops being luxurious, who fills the throne?

After the Runway: Power, Partnerships & the Future of Fashion

Fashion Month is over — now the real conversation begins.

In this episode, Audrey breaks down who truly dominated the season, why the Oscars red carpet is now competing with the runway, and what Tokyo Fashion Week reveals about creativity today.

Plus, the industry shift everyone is watching: Zara x John Galliano.

A collaboration that raises a bigger question — can fast fashion carry couture thinking?

Because fashion is no longer evolving.

It’s negotiating.

🎙️ I’ll see you… Front Ro...

After the Runway: Power, Partnerships & the Future of Fashion

Fashion Month is over — now the real conversation begins.

In this episode, Audrey breaks down who truly dominated the season, why the Oscars red carpet is now competing with the runway, and what Tokyo Fashion Week reveals about creativity today.

Plus, the industry shift everyone is watching: Zara x John Galliano.

A collaboration that raises a bigger question — can fast fashion carry couture thinking?

Because fashion is no longer evolving.

It’s negotiating.

🎙️ I’ll see you… Front Ro

Paris closed Fashion Month with authority, drama, and a clear sense that the industry is entering a new era.

In this episode of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, Audrey walks through the most talked-about shows of Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2026–2027 — from Dior’s new chapter under Jonathan Anderson to Chanel’s evolving identity under Matthieu Blazy.

From the historic gardens of the Tuileries to the runways beneath the Paris skyline, this season revealed a fashion world balancing heritage and reinvention.

Highlights include:

• Dior at the Jardin des Tuileries

• Chanel at th...

Paris has spoken.

From Dior in the Tuileries to Louis Vuitton near the Louvre, Paris Fashion Week FW26/27 closed Fashion Month with a clear message: the industry is entering a new era.

New creative directors.

Heritage houses redefining themselves.

And a few rebellious runways that reminded us fashion is still allowed to surprise us.

🎙 New episode of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes now available.

#ParisFashionWeek #FashionWeek #FrontRowPodcast #LuxuryFashion #FashionAnalysis

London Played. Milan Calculated. | Milan Fashion Week FW26/27

By the time Fashion Month reached Milan, the tone shifted.

This wasn’t a week chasing virality.

It was a week protecting legacy.

In Episode 6 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, we unpack:

– Prada’s intellectual control

– Max Mara’s power uniform

– Fendi’s new chapter

– Dolce & Gabbana’s narrative correction — and Madonna’s late arrival

– Gucci under Demna — nostalgia or direction?

– The growing tension between celebrity optics and garment authority

...

London Played. Milan Calculated. | Milan Fashion Week FW26/27

By the time Fashion Month reached Milan, the tone shifted.

This wasn’t a week chasing virality.

It was a week protecting legacy.

In Episode 6 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, we unpack:

– Prada’s intellectual control

– Max Mara’s power uniform

– Fendi’s new chapter

– Dolce & Gabbana’s narrative correction — and Madonna’s late arrival

– Gucci under Demna — nostalgia or new direction?

– The growing tension between celebrity optics and garment authority.

London Fashion Week is never the most polished — but it might be the bravest.

In Season 2, Episode 5 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, Audrey breaks down Fall/Winter 2026/27 — from Erdem’s 20th anniversary collection The Imaginary Conversation to Harris Reed’s theatrical mastery, Karoline Vitto’s intelligent body positivity, and Burberry’s dramatic late closing show.

Was London chaotic? Yes.

Was it underfunded and unpredictable? Absolutely.

Was it alive? Without question.

This episode dives into the designers who grounded the week (Joseph), the ones who pushed texture and youth culture (Che...

London Fashion Week is never the most polished — but it might be the bravest.

In Season 2, Episode 5 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, Audrey breaks down Fall/Winter 2026/27 — from Erdem’s 20th anniversary collection The Imaginary Conversation to Harris Reed’s theatrical mastery, Karoline Vitto’s intelligent body positivity, and Burberry’s dramatic late closing show.

Was London chaotic? Yes.

Was it underfunded and unpredictable? Absolutely.

Was it alive? Without question.

This episode dives into the designers who grounded the week (Joseph), the ones who pushed texture and youth culture (Che...

New York Fashion Week opened the global fashion calendar with discipline, clarity, and conviction.

From Marc Jacobs’ powerful opening to Sergio Hudson’s 10-year milestone, from Christian Siriano’s unwavering commitment to dressing women as they exist, to Bronx and Banco bringing fashion directly into the streets of New York — this season revealed designers focused on identity rather than distraction.

In this episode of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, Audrey explores the collections, the atmosphere, and her personal coup de cœur: 7 For All Mankind, a brand redefining denim with precision and composure.

New York...

New York Fashion Week opened the global fashion calendar with discipline, clarity, and conviction.

From Marc Jacobs’ powerful opening to Sergio Hudson’s 10-year milestone, from Christian Siriano’s unwavering commitment to dressing women as they exist, to Bronx and Banco bringing fashion directly into the streets of New York — this season revealed designers focused on identity rather than distraction.

In this episode of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, Audrey explores the collections, the atmosphere, and her personal coup de cœur: 7 For All Mankind, a brand redefining denim with precision and composure.

New York...