The fashion designer Bella Freud launched Fashion Neurosis a little over a year ago with Rick Owens as her first guest. The show, available in both audio and video formats, immediately set itself apart from other fashion podcasts by the sense of intimacy Freud cultivated in unguarded conversations with her high-profile visitors— Cate Blanchett, David Cronenberg, and Rosalía among them. She joins Nicole Phelps on this week’s episode of The Run-Through to discuss the origins of the show, including its now-iconic setup.

“I was playing around with ideas before lockdown, and I was working with a friend, a filmmaker, and he said, ‘You need some props,’” she recalls. “And I thought, Okay, they can lie on the couch. I’ll be on a chair. And I thought, You know what? Someone’s gonna do this. An

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