What's Contemporary Now?

The Fifth Fashion Week, How Copenhagen Rewrote the Rules

Copenhagen Fashion Week marks its 20th anniversary at a moment when the fashion system is being asked to account for itself. In conversation with CEO Cecilie Thorsmark an

On the Road in Copenhagen

With a quick trip to Copenhagen for the city's 20th anniversary fashion week, we will be attending the shows, interviewing the organizers, and participating on a panel wi

Yoon Ahn on AMBUSH, Subculture, and One Foot In, One Foot Out

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

Asad Syrkett on Interiors, Identity, and the Human Touch

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, an

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

For our first episode of 2026, we sit down with Kyle Hagler and Emil Wilbekin for a deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation at the intersection of Native Son, cultu

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

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 ce

Camille Miceli on Pucci, Play, and Joie de Vivre

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 sha

Matthew Whitehouse and The Face of Today

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 for

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

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 yea

The World According to LDSS

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 talk

The New Masculinity, According to Samuel Hine

For GQ’s global fashion correspondent Samuel Hine, clothes have always been more than fabric; they were a form of identity long before they became his career. Growing up

Sarah Ball on Editing What’s Contemporary Now at WSJ. Magazine

At this year’s WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards, Billie Eilish asked, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? Give your money away” — a line that instantly rev

Tish Weinstock Is an Amorphous and Contemporary It Girl

Talking to Tish Weinstock offers the kind of unfiltered honesty — or, as she calls it, radical honesty — that every interviewer hopes to find in a guest. She has a unique

Adam Selman Tells Us Victoria’s Secret

The morning after his show debut as Victoria’s Secret’s new Creative Director, Adam Selman joined me to talk through the emotions still vibrating from the night before. T

Observant and Optimistic, AREA’s Nicholas Aburn

Nicholas Aburn’s path to AREA was never a straight line. He grew up watching CNN Style with his mother, worked full time at Prada while studying at Central Saint Martins,

The Shape of Reverence with Jerry Lorenzo

When we first thought to sit down with Jerry Lorenzo, we planned to talk about culture, fashion, the first official womenswear collection from Fear of God, and the unique

Season 6 Trailer

What’s more contemporary than the pursuit of happiness? The restless task of creating it, sustaining it, sharing it. It’s a game not so far from that of the creative clas

A Season in Progress, A World in Flux

While the world appears to have taken leave of anything resembling objective reality, and our feeds continue to oscillate between the surreal and the mundane in a choreog

Editing Creative Culture with System Magazine’s Jonathan Wingfield

In recent years, it’s become harder to tell whether fashion can still stand on its own, without leaning on the scaffolding of sport, film, or whatever cultural tentpole h