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    As one of the first brands to democratize luxury fashion, H&M helped reshape the relationship between designer creativity and the wider public. From its landmark collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld in 2004, they’ve brought the creative…

  • The Fifth Fashion Week, How Copenhagen Rewrote the Rules

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    January 26, 2026 · 1 min

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    The episode follows AMBUSH’s evolution from jewelry made for friends to a brand that Yoon describes as a platform, shaped by experimentation rather than a rigid business plan. She speaks candidly about learning in real time, being paid to…

  • Asad Syrkett on Interiors, Identity, and the Human Touch

    January 12, 2026 · 48 min

    Asad Syrkett joins What’s Contemporary Now? for a wide-ranging conversation about design as a cultural language and the quiet ways environments shape identity, memory, and access. From a childhood spent moving through New York City’s…

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  • Kyle Hagler and Emil Wilbekin on Native Son, Visibility, and the Business of Culture

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  • Angelo Flaccavento on Taste, Doubt, and the Beauty of Uncertainty

    December 15, 2025 · 49 min

    Angelo Flaccavento has long been one of fashion’s most distinctive critical voices — sharp yet empathetic, rigorous yet imaginative, always willing to question his own certainties. In this conversation, he traces his path from a Sicilian…

  • Camille Miceli on Pucci, Play, and Joie de Vivre

    December 8, 2025 · 43 min

    Camille Miceli brings a vivid, almost incandescent joie de vivre to Pucci, treating color, movement, and intuition as both vocabulary and philosophy. Her worldview is shaped by an upbringing steeped in art and fashion, and by formative…

  • Matthew Whitehouse and The Face of Today

    December 1, 2025 · 36 min

    In this episode, Matthew Whitehouse reflects on the winding path from a rainy Lancashire childhood and a brief burst of band-life glamour to leading The Face, a title forever suspended between myth and reinvention. He speaks with disarming…

  • Recho Omondi’s Candor, Curiosity, and The Cutting Room Floor

    November 24, 2025 · 52 min

    Recho Omondi, host of The Cutting Room Floor, handles candor with the ease of someone who has little interest in performance and every interest in clarity. Over seven years, her once-modest podcast has steadily entered the cultural…

  • The World According to LDSS

    November 17, 2025 · 44 min

    In his first-ever podcast interview, Ludovic de Saint Sernin traces the journey from a nomadic childhood to becoming one of fashion’s most closely watched voices. He talks about the diary-like beginnings of his brand, the Mapplethorpe…

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About the show

Designed for curious minds, "What's Contemporary Now?" engages various thought leaders across cultural industries taking in their broad, compelling perspectives and unveiling their common threads. Hosted by Christopher Michael Produced by Sasha Grinblat