Sunday Special: The Fashion Episode

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This month kicked off the big four fashion weeks: New York, London, Milan and Paris. Each year, designers, brands, influencers and celebrities flock to these events to see and be seen. On today’s episode, Gilbert sits down with Stella Bugbee and Jacob Gallagher, two of The Times’s foremost style experts and veterans of the fashion week circuit, to discuss clothes. They talk about what fashion week means in the frenetic fashion ecosystem of 2025, and they answer some listener questions about how to cultivate a personal style.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Sunday special.
0:06.7	I'm Gilbert Cruz, the editor of the New York Times book review, and every week I'm here with my colleagues.
0:12.9	We're talking about music and movies and books and TV, just all sorts of fun stuff.
0:19.5	Today, we're talking about fashion.
0:21.8	This month kicked off the big four fashion weeks, New York, London, Milan, and Paris.
0:27.6	And if you've ever seen even a single photo from one of these runways, I think you know that
0:33.5	those clothes bear little resemblance to what we wear on a daily basis.
0:38.5	But those clothes and those events are still important and influential in many ways.
0:44.0	I want to know how, and today we're going to talk about that.
0:46.9	And we're also going to answer some of your questions about personal style.
0:52.3	With me today are two of my colleagues who cover fashion for The Times,
0:55.9	Stella Bugby, the editor of our styles desk.
0:58.9	Hello, Stella.
0:59.9	Hello, Gilbert.
1:01.0	Also here is Jacob Gallagher, who is one of our fashion reporters,
1:04.3	who goes to a lot of fashion week events.
1:06.8	Hello, Jacob.
1:07.5	Hi, Gilbert.
1:08.3	Hi.
1:14.4	Okay. Hello, Jacob. Hi, Gilbert. Hi. Okay, so I feel like I have to fess up straight away.
1:17.9	Maybe I already know this based on what I wear around the office.
1:21.1	But I don't feel like a particularly fashionable person.
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