Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud

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1. Grace Coddington

   21 Oct 2026 · 59 min

   Grace Coddington is a British fashion editor, stylist, and model. After winning a Vogue model competition in 1959, Grace pursued a modelling career in London and Paris. Landing a job as Junior Fashion Editor at…

2. Blindboy

   14 Oct 2026 · 1 h 52 min

   Blindboyboatclub is an award-winning Irish author, documentary‐maker and podcaster. As a writer, he has published three collections of best-selling and critically-acclaimed short stories, blending myth, satire and the…

3. Tim Walker

   7 Oct 2026 · 1 h 20 min

   Tim Walker is an English photographer. He began taking pictures as a young boy and, after leaving school, worked in the Cecil Beaton archive at the Condé Nast Library before studying photography at Exeter College of…

4. Glenn Martens

   30 Sep 2026 · 1 h 01 min

   We recorded this episode in the summer before the announcement that Glenn Martens would be stepping down as Creative Director of Diesel. Glenn Martens is a Belgian fashion designer and the creative director of Maison…

5. Carlos Acosta

   23 Sep 2026 · 1 h 30 min

   Carlos Acosta is a Cuban dancer, choreographer, and director. Acosta won the Prix de Lausanne aged 16, and became the youngest Principal at the English National Ballet in 1991, aged 18. Acosta returned from classical…

6. Martine Syms

   16 Sep 2026 · 1 h 24 min

   Martine Syms is a multidisciplinary artist working across film, video, photography, and publishing. Born and raised in California, she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and gained an MFA from Bard…

7. Anthony Vaccarello

   9 Sep 2026 · 58 min

   Anthony Vaccarello is a Belgian fashion designer. Born to Sicilian parents in Brussels, he studied law for one year before moving to the renowned La Cambre art and design school. Upon graduation, Vaccarello spent two…

8. David Sedaris

   2 Sep 2026 · 1 h 11 min

   David Sedaris is an American author and humourist. David’s first book, Barrel Fever, was published in 1994, and he has since published fourteen books including Calypso, and Me Talk Pretty One Day, with his essay…

9. RERUN: Rick Owens

   26 Aug 2026 · 59 min

   RERUN: In the first episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud, I was joined by the legendary fashion master of avant-garde gothic elegance Rick Owens as he lies on the couch. Rick Owens is known for his…

10. RERUN: Zadie Smith

    19 Aug 2026 · 52 min

    RERUN: Zadie Smith was one of my first recordings of Fashion Neurosis. She arrived on a bicycle in the pouring rain, a more typical June day in London 2024. I didn't know Zadie well, but she owned a couple of my velvet…

11. RERUN: Kate Moss

    12 Aug 2026 · 47 min

    RERUN: I never expected to have Kate Moss as a Fashion Neurosis guest. I knew she hated being filmed and is famously private. I had been doing little experiments with set ups before Covid and one day we were having tea…

12. Laurie Anderson - Live at Tribeca Festival

    5 Aug 2026 · 1 h 17 min · Bonus

    A live, audio-only recording from my conversation with Laurie Anderson at the Tribeca Festival in June 2026. Laurie Anderson is an American writer, director, composer, visual artist, musician, and vocalist whose…

13. Shania Twain

    29 Jul 2026 · 1 h 20 min

    Shania Twain is a Canadian songwriter and artist. She is a five-time GRAMMY Award winner, and the top-selling female country-pop artist of all time. Born in Ontario, Shania Twain experienced a childhood fraught with…

14. RM

    22 Jul 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    RM is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, music producer, and the leader of pop royalty BTS. His discography includes solo mixtapes RM (2015) and mono. (2018), as well as solo albums Indigo (2022) and Right Place,…

15. Rashida Jones

    15 Jul 2026 · 1 h 02 min

    Rashida Jones is an award-winning American actor, writer, producer, and director with a dynamic body of work spanning film, television, and documentary filmmaking. Her extensive acting credits include Sofia Coppola’s…

16. Flea

    8 Jul 2026 · 1 h 33 min

    Flea, born Michael Balzary, is a musician, writer and actor. He is one of the founding members and the bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea is a legend in the musical fraternity. His style, both sartorially and…

17. Leïla Slimani

    1 Jul 2026 · 1 h 18 min

    Leïla Slimani is a French-Moroccan writer. Born in Rabat, Morocco, she moved to Paris aged seventeen to study media and journalism at Sciences Po. She is the author of seven books published in the English language.…

18. Charli xcx

    24 Jun 2026 · 1 h 11 min

    Charli xcx is a British musician, artist, and actor. Raised in Essex, she recorded her first album at the age of 14, and was discovered after posting demos on MySpace and performing at East London raves. She has since…

19. John Currin

    17 Jun 2026 · 1 h 27 min

    John Currin is an American painter. Currin is widely recognised for his figurative oil paintings in which themes of sexual personae and historical painterly genres appear in surreal and sometimes disconcerting guises.…

20. Colm Tóibín

    10 Jun 2026 · 1 h 17 min

    Colm Tóibín is an Irish writer. Born in Enniscorthy, he is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and The Magician, and two collections of stories. His novel Brooklyn was an immediate bestseller…

21. Stephen Jones

    3 Jun 2026 · 1 h 12 min

    Stephen Jones OBE is a British milliner and designer, highly regarded as one of the most radical of the 20th and 21st centuries. Jones studied at St Martins, spending his evenings at the Blitz club, immersed in…

22. Peaches

    27 May 2026 · 1 h 18 min

    Peaches is a Canadian singer songwriter, producer, director, and performance artist. She first catapulted to stardom with her 2000 debut album, The Teaches of Peaches, which introduced the world to her sexually…

23. Jerry Hall

    20 May 2026 · 1 h 02 min

    Jerry Hall is an American model and actor who rose to fame in the 1970s, becoming one of the world’s most sought-after supermodels. Born and raised in working-class Texas, she was discovered at 16 on a beach in St.…

24. FKA twigs

    13 May 2026 · 1 h 31 min

    FKA twigs is a Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter, producer, dancer-choreographer, visual artist and actor. Raised in Gloucestershire, twigs moved to London aged 17 and became embedded in the underground art and…

25. Dan Levy

    6 May 2026 · 1 h 18 min

    Dan Levy is an Emmy award-winning actor, writer, director, and producer. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Levy is the son of actor and comedian Eugene Levy. Dan Levy became a sensation for his work on Schitt’s…

26. Kristen McMenamy

    29 Apr 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    Kristen McMenamy is an American model. Born in Pennsylvania, she rose to fame in the 1990s as part of the legendary group of Supermodels including Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and…

27. Arlo Parks

    22 Apr 2026 · 56 min

    Arlo Parks is an English singer-songwriter, and poet. Born and raised in Hammersmith, West London, Parks released her first EP Super Sad Generation aged 19, going on to win the Mercury Music Prize, a Breakthrough…

28. Thom Browne

    8 Apr 2026 · 53 min

    Thom Browne is an American fashion designer, who is widely recognized for challenging and modernizing our contemporary uniform and tailoring. By questioning traditional proportions, Browne’s designs consistently convey…

29. Lynne Ramsay

    1 Apr 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    Lynne Ramsay is an award-winning director and writer. Born and raised in Glasgow, Lynne made the short film Little Deaths during her time at the National Film and Television School, which won the 1996 Prix du Jury at…

30. Riz Ahmed

    25 Mar 2026 · 1 h 06 min

    Riz Ahmed is an Academy and Emmy Award winning actor, director, musician, and writer. Born and raised in Wembley, Ahmed studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, going on to study acting at the…

31. David Byrne

    18 Mar 2026 · 52 min

    David Byrne is a musician and visual artist. He was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, moving to Canada aged 2, and later Maryland, where he was raised in Baltimore. Byrne studied photography, performance, and video at RISD…

32. Fecal Matter

    11 Mar 2026 · 1 h 13 min

    Fecal Matter are a fashion design and artist duo made up of Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj. The two met at fashion school in Montreal in 2012, and formed Fecal Matter in 2014. Matières Fécales, the duo’s brand, was…

33. Erin O'Connor

    4 Mar 2026 · 1 h 17 min

    Erin O’Connor is a British supermodel, writer, and advocate. She grew up in the West Midlands and was scouted as a teenager at the iconic 90’s cult show The Clothes Show live. Erin O’Connor’s modelling debut was in…

34. Richard E. Grant

    25 Feb 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    Richard E. Grant is an actor, director, writer and presenter. Born in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), his father worked for the British government and Grant grew up as part of an ex-pat community in the country. He made…

35. Charlotte Gainsbourg

    18 Feb 2026 · 1 h 29 min

    Charlotte Gainsbourg is an actress and musician. The daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, she was born in London and raised in Paris. She made her acting debut at the age of 13 playing Catherine Deneuve’s…

36. Esther Perel

    11 Feb 2026 · 1 h 11 min

    Esther Perel is a psychotherapist and author, recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City, serves as…

37. Abiodun Oyewole

    4 Feb 2026 · 1 h 39 min

    Abiodun Oyewole is an American poet, painter and author, and one of the founding members of the music and spoken-word group The Last Poets. Born in Ohio, Oyewole was raised in New York by his aunt, whose love of jazz…

38. Alexi Wasser

    28 Jan 2026 · 59 min

    Alexi Wasser is a New York–based filmmaker, writer, and actor whose work blends razor-sharp comedy with raw emotional candor. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Wasser’s late father was the photojournalist Julian Wasser,…

39. Christy Turlington

    21 Jan 2026 · 1 h 41 min

    Christy Turlington Burns is the Founder and President of Every Mother Counts. Christy’s work in maternal health began after she experienced a childbirth-related complication in 2003—an experience that inspired her to…

40. Hilton Als

    14 Jan 2026 · 1 h 04 min

    Hilton Als is an award-winning American writer, critic, and curator. He began his career as a staff writer at the Village Voice, and editor-at-large at Vibe. Hilton became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a…

41. Debbie Harry

    7 Jan 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    Debbie Harry is an American rockstar, exploding onto the music scene as the platinum haired lead vocalist of Blondie. After gaining an Arts Degree from Centenary College in New Jersey, Debbie Harry moved to New York…

42. Helena Bonham Carter

    17 Dec 2025 · 1 h 11 min

    Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress. Known for her portrayals of interesting, singular women, she rose to fame playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View in 1985, and the titular character in Lady Jane in…

43. Willy Chavarria

    10 Dec 2025 · 1 h 13 min

    Willy Chavarria is an American fashion designer. Born and raised in California, he studied graphic design at the Academy of the Arts, and got his start in clothing design working in the shipping department at Joe…

44. Annie Leibovitz

    3 Dec 2025 · 1 h 19 min

    Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential contemporary American photographers. Born in Connecticut, Leibovitz moved frequently in her childhood due to father’s position in the US Air Force. She took her first…

45. Richard Russell

    26 Nov 2025 · 1 h 20 min

    Richard Russell is a record producer, musician, and the owner of XL Recordings. Richard joined XL as an A&R Scout in 1991, and in 1992 released the single The Bouncer with XL co-founder Nick Halkes, which was featured…

46. IB Kamara

    19 Nov 2025 · 1 h 00 min

    IB Kamara is a stylist, journalist, musician, and creative director. Born in Sierra Leone, IB moved to The Gambia as a child to escape from civil war, settling in London aged sixteen. Kamara studied Fashion &…

47. Rosalía

    12 Nov 2025 · 1 h 10 min

    Rosalía is a Grammy award winning Spanish singer-songwriter. Her work transcends genre, blending folk, avant-pop, hip-hop, jazz, reggaeton, and traditional flamenco. Born and raised in Catalonia, Rosalía has a degree…

48. Alexa Chung

    5 Nov 2025 · 1 h 09 min

    Alexa Chung is a presenter, writer, model, and photographer. A muse to many in the creative industry, Alexa is globally recognised for her impact on fashion and culture. After modelling in her teenage years, Alexa went…

49. Arthur Jafa

    29 Oct 2025 · 1 h 19 min

    Arthur Jafa is an American artist. Raised in Mississippi, he studied architecture and film at Howard University, and has been working as a filmmaker and artist for over four decades. He has had a successful career as a…

50. Tessa Thompson

    22 Oct 2025 · 52 min

    Tessa Thompson is an American actor. Her father is the musician Marc Antony Thompson who founded the musical collective Chocolate Genius Inc. She was raised between New York and Los Angeles, making her stage debut as…