Rodeo Drive – The Podcast (Rodeo Drive)

Rodeo Drive, now world-renowned, began as little more than a bridle path. Pioneering designers, hoteliers and entrepreneurs transformed it into a rival to New York’s Fifth Avenue -- with sun, palm trees and Hollywood sizzle. How did it happen? Is it a street or a state of mind? How does it adapt to change? Rodeo Drive –The Podcast brings you the stories of the people who imagined the inimitable, three-block stretch in Beverly Hills, bringing showmanship and glamour to retail excellence.

Tune in to hear host Bronwyn Cosgrave in conversation with fashion and design luminaries, retailers, and chroniclers including Rose Apodaca, Nicolas Bijan, Nicola Cagliata, Michael Chow, Kathy Gohari, Robert Hayman, Stephen Jones OBE, Dame Zandra Rhodes, Cameron Silver, and many more, about the intoxicating combination of fashion, art and entertainment that put Rodeo Drive on the map – and what they envision for the future of the famous luxury thoroughfare.

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Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

Podcast Credits

Executive Producer, Lyn Winter.

Host, Bronwyn Cosgrave.

Written by Frances Anderton.

Audio Engineer and Editor, Avishay Artsy.

Theme music by Brian Banks.

Production Coordinators Livia Mandoul and Callie McConnell.

Rodeo Drive - The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, GEARYS and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Rodeo Drive Committee

Founded in 1972, Rodeo Drive, Inc., also known as The Rodeo Drive Committee is a 501 C (6) non-profit organization, that provides a forum where its members—consisting of retailers, hoteliers, and landowners—can engage, share a dialogue, and help shape the present and future of the iconic, world-famous shopping destination. 

CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, inc., (213) 446-0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com.

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Giorgio Beverly Hills made Rodeo Drive a fashion destination, and gave the world an unforgettable perfume. An all-star cast – Robert Hayman, the son of Giorgio founder Fred Hayman, known as “The Godfather of Rodeo Drive”; Dame Zandra Rhodes; author Rose Apodaca; and Decades owner Cameron Silver – tells the story of the “quirky” boutique’s creation, its star-studded heyday and how Giorgio innovated much that is central to high fashion and retailing today. Stephen Jones OBE, and perfumers Roja Dove and David Horner explain how the Giorgio Beverly Hills perfume became a blockbuster. And host Bronwyn Cosgrave asks, what comes next for the luxury thoroughfare?

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, inc., (213) 446-0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com.

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COVID-19 and now the Black Lives Matter protests have shaken up the globe, and that includes Rodeo Drive. Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to Ruth E. Carter, the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for Marvel’s “BLACK PANTHER”, and a preeminent voice in Afro aesthetics. In Trust Your Voice: Ruth E. Carter, Fashion and Protest, Cosgrave and Carter discuss her path to success – costuming more than 40 acclaimed feature films – and its impact on future generations, as well as protest and how the fashion and luxury industries can make the goals of Black Lives Matter a reality. “I think there was momentum building as far as luxury brands becoming so connected to urban fashion,” says Carter. “I feel like the pump was primed for fashion to be positioned in a place to take action now.”

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, inc., (213) 446-0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com.

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When Giorgio Armani opened his flagship mega boutique on Rodeo Drive in 1988 people were stunned at the 13,000 square feet interior with a sweeping staircase, white gold leaf and glorious light.

It was created by Michael Chow, legendary restaurateur and artist. It inspired Armani’s famed uplit runway, became a Hollywood hot spot, and set the trend for retailers to team up with famous architects: think Prada and Rem Koolhaas; Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Peter Marino; Valentino Menswear, Bally and David Chipperfield.

Chow’s design for Giorgio Armani Beverly Hills has remained intact. “It’s very simple to be timeless,” says Chow. “You just have to be true to yourself.”

But is the age of the vast boutique over? Hear Bronwyn Cosgrave in conversation with Michael Chow, Interior Design magazine editor Edie Cohen and writer and former editor-in-chief of French Vogue Joan Juliet Buck.

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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In the early 1970s a young clothing designer named Bijan Pakzad packed his bags and left Iran, dreaming of conquering America. Four decades later the building that housed the original Bijan boutique on Rodeo Drive was purchased by LVMH for $122 million, and Bijan had become the “world’s most expensive designer,” sought after by presidents and basketball stars. 

Bijan’s son Nicolas, CEO and co-owner of the House of Bijan, takes listeners on a tour of the storied, by-appointment-only boutique, and explains how he is redefining the Bijan brand for tomorrow’s customers. He also revisits his late father’s past, explaining the secrets to Bijan’s success, his love of yellow, and what he meant to generations of Persian Americans who decamped to Los Angeles during the Iranian Revolution. 

“He just did the most unbelievable, controversial things that people wanted to know ‘What's the story here?’,” says Nicolas Bijan.

Weighing in on Bijan’s “story” is Pari Ehsan, the Instagram fashion influencer who runs the online platform Pari Dust; and Porochista Khakpour, author of Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Window shopping is an art form for everyone to enjoy, even in an era of phone gazing and online retail. In this episode three legendary window designers talk with host Bronwyn Cosgrave about their work: Simon Doonan, former Creative Director for Barneys, and LVMH's Faye McLeod and Ansel Thompson. They talk about the three-second rule for window dressers, and what it takes to create boutique windows that astonish passersby, from rats in tuxedos to collaborations with world-renowned visionaries Virgil Abloh, Frank Gehry, and Yayoi Kusama. McLeod and Thompson also talk about designing during the pandemic — with children painting rainbows — and how global awareness, sustainability and ideas of street theater are finding expression in storefront windows that capture today’s culture. “How do you appear to be sensitive to all the things that are going on... while also wanting to distract people and make them feel that life is hedonistic and fun?,” asks Simon Doonan. Find out, in this episode of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, inc., (213) 446-0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com.

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Hollywood and fashion are joined at the hip. But what happens when a pandemic puts a hold on red carpet ceremonies? 

Enter the VIP world of Rodeo Drive, with secret back entryways and private fitting rooms. Hear how stylists, brands and designers turn actors into fashion icons. 

Stylists Alexandra Mandelkorn talks about working with Janelle Monáe to create the most sensational outfit at the 2020 Oscars, and Mary Fellowes explains how she made Olivia Colman the queen of the 2019 red carpet. 

Host Bronwyn Cosgrave asks what the red carpet will look like in the time of COVID-19 and heightened awareness around race. Prestigious film festivals including the Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Sundance Film Festival as well as the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards are taking place, but in a socially-distanced way. The 93rd Academy Awards has been postponed until April 2021.

“I can't wait to see the first actress that pulls off a mask that matches her dress or intentionally doesn't match it,” says Chris Gardner, columnist at The Hollywood Reporter. He adds, “some of those masks won't just be color coordinated. They'll be political statements. So it could be really exciting.”

Hear also from Paola Jacobbi at Vanity Fair Italia; British milliner Stephen Jones OBE; Robert Hayman, entrepreneur, son of Fred Hayman and member of the Rodeo Drive Committee; and author and design curator Rose Apodaca as they reflect on Rodeo Drive’s historic role in powering the red carpet, Hollywood’s all-important fashion runway.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Rodeo Drive - The Podcast takes to the open road, exploring the fabulous car culture on Rodeo Drive. 

“Rodeo Drive is a fashion street, and along with that comes jewelry, watches, and cars,” says Bruce Meyer, founding chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum and founder of the Rodeo Drive Concours d'Elegance, the show of collectible cars that brings thousands of people to Rodeo Drive each Father’s Day.

Host Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to Rodeo Drive’s favorite car fanatic: comedian Jay Leno. Leno, host of CNBC’s Jay Leno’s Garage, riffs on his passion for buying, and fixing up, cars and motorbikes; his motivations for collecting and the importance of buying what you like; how the pandemic might affect the luxury car market; the future of self-driving cars; and the mishaps that can happen when you drive and eat at the same time.

Cosgrave also gets a sneak preview from Marek Reichman, Chief Creative Officer and studio head at Aston Martin, of what 007 will be driving in “No Time To Die," the 25th James Bond film that premieres in November.

Meyer and Kathy Gohari of the Rodeo Drive Committee talk about why the legendary three blocks are a magnet for hot wheels. “Many times on the weekends, we see some of our regular clients who have special cars to enjoy their downtime – and sometimes even their outfits match the car. They’re customized to the extreme. We've seen everything from crystal-studded license plates to velvet covered skins covering the entire car,” says Gohari.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Collaborations between brands are in vogue. But what about teaming up with a city: Los Angeles? When Sergio Zambon created the 2 Moncler 1952 menswear collection he tapped four edgy LA creatives – AD.iii, Balthazar Getty, Libertine and Undefeated – for a cross cultural blend of Moncler’s classic quilting with LA’s shine and street smarts.

In this episode, Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to Zambon about the unusual mash-up, and why LA is a magnet for designers right now. "It's the city that lately changed from being an American big city to a world city. We’re not just talking about new buildings or new projects, it has really changed in a cultural way," Zambon says.

She also talks with James Bond, co-founder of Undefeated, and AD.iii’s Aaron Thompson about melding their visions with Moncler. 

Booth Moore, Women’s Wear Daily’s Executive Editor, West Coast shares her take on the collection. "Two brands are better than one these days," Moore says, adding "...what Moncler has done is taken a heritage sport product and brought it into the future."

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Hosted by Bronwyn Cosgrave, season two of Rodeo Drive–The Podcast brings to listeners around the world the stories from the makers, creators, architects and designers, who dreamed up Rodeo Drive and helped establish Los Angeles as a global style capital. The podcast also highlights what’s next in fashion, luxury and entertainment, as a new era for the iconic thoroughfare unfolds in response to unprecedented challenges and change. 

In the first episode, listeners will hear about the future of the fashion runway, as global fashion weeks are underway in a variety of new formats. Forthcoming episodes will examine Rodeo Drive from every angle – the pivotal place it occupies in Hollywood, the families that power it, what happened when one Rodeo Drive just wasn’t enough, fashion design in a time of staying in, and more.

Rodeo Drive, now world-renowned, began as little more than a bridle path. Pioneering designers, hoteliers and entrepreneurs transformed it into a rival to New York’s Fifth Avenue — with sun, palm trees and Hollywood sizzle. Rodeo Drive-The Podcast connects listeners around the world with up to date stories about the past, present and future of this famed three-block stretch in Beverly Hills. 

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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Podcast Credits

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Bronwyn Cosgrave

Written by Frances Anderton 

Audio Engineer and Editor: Avishay Artsy

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Coordinators: Livia Mandoul and Callie McConnell.

Rodeo Drive - The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, GEARYS and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Rodeo Drive Committee

Founded in 1972, Rodeo Drive, Inc., also known as The Rodeo Drive Committee is a 501 C (6) non-profit organization, that provides a forum where its members—consisting of retailers, hoteliers, and landowners—can engage, share a dialogue, and help shape the present and future of the iconic, world-famous shopping destination. 

CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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As fashion houses are pivoting from classic runway presentations to immersive and digital formats, a new type of fashion film is emerging after a year in lockdown spent staring at screens.

Host Bronwyn Cosgrave discusses the reimagining of the fashion show with industry insiders; fashion photographer Robert Fairer, author, editor-at-large at Air Mail and special correspondent to Vanity Fair Amy Fine Collins, fashion and culture journalist and bestselling author Dana Thomas and fashion photographer and filmmaker Sølve Sundsbø.

Kathy Gohari, Vice President of the Rodeo Drive Committee, keeps listeners up to date about happenings on the street, discussing the West Coast debut on Rodeo Drive of the newly-opened Louis Vuitton Temporary Residency, The Adventures of Zoooom with Friends, an installation created by Men’s Artistic Director Virgil Abloh showcasing the brand’s Spring/Summer 2021 menswear collection.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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When one Rodeo Drive was not enough, they built Two Rodeo Drive. In the late 1980s, the visionary San Francisco real estate developer Douglas Stitzel burst onto the scene with an idea for a new, European-style shopping complex. Located on the corner of Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, it would work like a companion to the world’s leading luxury thoroughfare. Today it is lined with a restaurant and boutiques operated by some of the greatest names in fashion retail including Etro, Lanvin, Versace, Jimmy Choo as well as Tiffany & Co.

Host Bronwyn Cosgrave explores the creation of Two Rodeo Drive with Stitzel’s right hands on the project, along with architecture critic Paul Goldberger, fashion journalist Merle Ginsberg, legendary hair stylist José Eber, Bill Wiley, Director at CBRE, worldwide leader in real estate services, who manages Two Rodeo Drive today and Kathy Gohari, Vice President of the Rodeo Drive Committee. They tell the story of Two Rodeo Drive for the first time, what happened after Stitzel realized his dream of building it, and also share their views on what’s next for the street. 

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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We are coming out of lockdown. Is it time to dump the sweatpants? As business returns to Rodeo Drive with newly announced Red Tier reopenings and a series of much awaited awards ceremonies on the calendar, fresh looks and wardrobe renewal are top of mind.

In this episode, host Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to three fashion thought leaders; Owner and Agent at The Beverly Hills Estates Rayni Williams, Stanford Law Professor and author of the acclaimed new book “Dress Codes: How The Laws of Fashion Made History” Richard Thompson Ford, and Forbes Columnist Rebecca Suhrawardi about their personal pandemic dressing stories, and what they think we’ll be wearing when we get back to the outside world.

For Williams, it is time to party: “I have stocked up on about six evening gowns,” she says, in readiness for the revival of real life events. Thompson Ford, adds that past pandemics changed fashion and so will this one: “It wouldn't surprise me at all to see an explosion of very sumptuous fashions, fashions that seemed to be kind of on the decline before COVID”. Suhrawardi offers her takeaway saying the new Fall/Winter collections suggest an “overall feeling of safety and ensconcing yourself...It's that top layer that is a shield between you and the world, a world that has been very unkind to us this past year.”

Plan ahead for your post-pandemic looks with this episode of Rodeo Drive - The Podcast.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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The House of Stefano Ricci offers a world of ultra-luxury menswear and high-flying lifestyle goods to a client list that has included President Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela and Pope Francis.

As the label approaches its fiftieth anniversary, Rodeo Drive-The Podcast celebrates the rise of this tight-knit family firm as it expanded from designing ties to becoming a global luxury fashion brand while remaining rooted in the renaissance city of Florence. 

Host Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to Stefano Ricci and his sons Niccolò Ricci, CEO and Filippo Ricci, Creative Director, and to David Foster, the celebrated musician, composer and producer, who has worked with talents from George Harrison to Whitney Houston, Beyoncé and Céline Dion.

Listeners will hear about mentors along the way, among them Rodeo Drive's Bijan; what’s next as the brand enters a new era; and the importance of Florence to the design and fabrication processes. There is “something magic in the city,” says Stefano Ricci, “a powerhouse of beauty and culture dating back many centuries.” In 2010 Stefano Ricci even acquired an antique silk mill, containing a loom invented by Leonardo da Vinci. 

Bill Wiley, Director with CBRE which oversees Two Rodeo Drive, home of the flagship Stefano Ricci boutique tells Cosgrave how a trip to the Italian factory revealed how “everything is handcrafted by the finest artisans”, and Kathy Gohari, President-elect of the Rodeo Drive Committee, adds that the boutique on the corner of Rodeo Drive and Two Rodeo Drive is an “iconic” destination. “They have brought the beauty of Florence and they have infused it into every aspect of their brand.”

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: May 28, 2020.

Rodeo Drive is reopening and back to a new normal as Covid-19 restrictions are eased. As we look forward to the 93rd Oscars®, which will be broadcast around the globe this Sunday, April 25, 2021, we invite you to listen back to the story of Rodeo Drive retailer and Giorgio Beverly Hills founder Fred Hayman, who in 1990 took over as fashion consultant to the Oscars, establishing a dressing service at his boutique, where stars could buy or borrow clothes for the ceremony and establishing Rodeo Drive’s indelible ties to film and entertainment. Giorgio Beverly Hills made Rodeo Drive a fashion destination and gave the world an unforgettable perfume. The distinctive yellow and white fronted Rodeo Drive boutique founded by Hayman has been honored by the City of Beverly Hills in 2019 with a Golden Shield recognizing the store as an emblematic institution that contributed to the cultural heritage of the City. Robert Hayman, Dame Zandra Rhodes; author and curator Rose Apodaca; Decades owner Cameron Silver; Stephen Jones OBE and perfumers Roja Dove and David Horner join host Bronwyn Cosgrave to tell the story of the “quirky” boutique’s creation, its star-studded heyday and its blockbuster perfume. 

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: July 9, 2020.

As Rodeo Drive reopens its doors to the world, we invite you to join host Bronwyn Cosgrave to revisit the unique story of clothing designer Bijan Pakzad and the ultra-luxury menswear store he created. Four decades after young Bijan Pakzad packed his bags and left Iran, he had become the “world’s most expensive designer”, sought after by presidents and basketball stars. Join his son, Nicolas, CEO and co-owner of the House of Bijan as he takes listeners on a tour of the storied, by-appointment only yellow boutique while recounting his late father’s past, explaining the secrets to his success, and what he meant to generations of Persian Americans who decamped to Los Angeles during the Iranian Revolution. Listen back to fashion influencer Pari Ehsan; and author Porochista Khakpour weighing in on Bijan’s extraordinary story.

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Originally published on: July 23, 2020.

As window displays along Rodeo Drive are refreshed with new collections and boutiques are now open for regular business hours, we invite you to listen back to three legendary window designers talk about their work: Simon Doonan, former Creative Director for Barneys, and LVMH’s Faye McLeod and Ansel Thompson. Hear why window shopping is an art form for everyone to enjoy, and what it takes to create boutique windows that astonish passersby– from rats in tuxedos to collaborations with world-renowned visionaries Virgil Abloh, Frank Gehry, and Yayoi Kusama. McLeod and Thompson also talk about designing during the pandemic and how global awareness, sustainability and ideas of street theater are finding expression in storefront windows that capture today’s culture.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

@rodeodrive

CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: June 25, 2020.

As visitors from around the world return to Rodeo Drive, we invite you to listen back and celebrate one of the visionaries who created it: Michael Chow. He is a restaurateur, an artist, and the designer of Giorgio Armani’s flagship mega boutique on Rodeo Drive. When the store opened its doors in 1988, people were stunned at the 13,000 square feet interior with a sweeping staircase, white gold leaf and glorious light. It inspired Armani’s famed uplit runway, became a Hollywood hot spot, and set the trend for retailers to team up with famous architects: think Prada and Rem Koolhaas; Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Peter Marino; Valentino Menswear, Bally and David Chipperfield. Chow’s design for Giorgio Armani Beverly Hills has remained intact. But is the age of the vast boutique over? Hear Bronwyn Cosgrave in conversation with Michael Chow, Interior Design deputy editor Edie Cohen and writer and former editor-in-chief of French Vogue Joan Juliet Buck.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: September 3, 2020.

As Rodeo Drive reopens to the world and as luxury brand Moncler prepares to unveil a new flagship on the street this summer, we invite you to listen back to the story of the brand's collection inspired by Los Angeles. While collaborations between brands are in vogue, teaming up with a city was an innovative approach that Creative Director Sergio Zambon adopted for the 2 Moncler 1952 menswear collection. He tapped four edgy LA creatives — AD.iii, Balthazar Getty, Libertine and Undefeated — for a cross cultural blend of Moncler’s classic quilting with LA’s shine and street smarts. Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to Zambon, co-founder of Undefeated James Bond and AD.iii’s Aaron Thompson about the unusual mash-up, and why LA is a magnet for designers right now. Booth Moore, Women’s Wear Daily’s Executive Editor, West Coast shares her take on the collection. 

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: June 11, 2020.

As this week marks the first anniversary of the death of George Floyd and the beginning of the pivotal Black Lives Matter protests that ensued and shook up the globe - including Rodeo Drive - we invite you to listen back to costume designer, Ruth E. Carter, the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Marvel’s “Black Panther” in conversation with host Bronwyn Cosgrave. Tune in to hear about Carter’s path to success – costuming more than 40 acclaimed feature films – and its impact on future generations, about protest and how fashion has been primed to take action in making the goals of Black Lives Matter a reality.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: March 1, 2021.

As visitors from around the world return to Rodeo Drive, we invite you to listen back to the story of the visionary who created the renowned Two Rodeo Drive: Douglas Stitzel. In the late 1980s, the San Francisco real estate developer burst onto the scene with an idea for a new, European-style shopping complex that would work as a companion to Rodeo Drive. Located on the corner of Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, today it is lined with a restaurant and boutiques operated by some of the greatest names in luxury and fashion retail including Jimmy Choo, Etro, Lanvin, Porsche Design, Stefano Ricci, Tiffany & Co., and Versace. Explore the story of the creation of Two Rodeo Drive with Stitzel’s right hands on the project, as well as architecture critic Paul Goldberger, fashion journalist Merle Ginsberg, legendary hair stylist José Eber, and Bill Wiley, Director at CBRE, worldwide leader in real estate services, who manages Two Rodeo Drive today.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

@rodeodrive

CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: August 20, 2020.

Ahead of the highly-anticipated, first ever Beverly Hills Tour d’Elegance, the moving car rally taking place this Father’s Day, June 20, we invite you to explore the one of a kind car culture on Rodeo Drive. Listen back to Rodeo Drive’s favorite car fanatic Jay Leno, host of CNBC’s Jay Leno’s Garage who riffs on his passion for buying, and fixing up, cars and motorbikes, his motivations for collecting,  the importance of buying what you like and the future of self-driving cars. Marek Reichman, Chief Creative Officer and studio head at Aston Martin also joins to give a sneak preview of what 007 will be driving in “No Time To Die," the 25th James Bond film that premieres in November. Bruce Meyer, co-founder of the Rodeo Drive Concours d'Elegance and founding chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum and Kathy Gohari, President-elect of the Rodeo Drive Committee also join in conversation with Bronwyn Cosgrave about why the legendary three blocks of Rodeo Drive are a magnet for hot wheels.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

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CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: March 22, 2020.

California turned the page to a more optimistic chapter as it reopened and lifted restrictions on June 15. As customers flock back to Rodeo Drive, fresh looks and wardrobe renewal are top of mind. We invite you to listen back to three fashion thought-leaders; owner and agent at The Beverly Hills Estates Rayni Williams, Stanford Law Professor and author of the acclaimed new book “Dress Codes: How The Laws of Fashion Made History” Richard Thompson Ford, and Forbes Columnist Rebecca Suhrawardi in conversation with Bronwyn Cosgrave about their personal, pandemic dressing stories, and what they think we’ll be wearing as we get back to the outside world. Plan your post-pandemic looks with this episode of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast.

Podcast webpage: rodeodrive-bh.com/podcast

@rodeodrive

CONTACT

Lyn Winter, Executive Producer, Lyn Winter, Inc., 213 446 0788, rodeodrive@lynwinter.com

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Originally published on: August 6, 2020.

Next month the 74th Cannes Film Festival will mark the return of international red carpet post-lockdowns. We invite you to listen back to how Rodeo Drive, the iconic luxury fashion thoroughfare, established a historic role in powering Hollywood’s red carpets. Stylist Alexandra Mandelkorn talks about creating the most sensational Oscars’ outfit for Janelle Monáe, and Mary Fellowes explains how she made Olivia Colman the queen of the red carpet. British milliner Stephen Jones OBE; Robert Hayman, entrepreneur, son of Fred Hayman; and author and design curator Rose Apodaca discuss with Bronwyn Cosgrave about how stylists, brands and designers turn actors into fashion icons.

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Originally published on: February 8, 2021.

Paris Couture Week will celebrate the return of physical runway shows, some live-streamed and with a limited number of guests, while many brands will continue into a third season of digital presentations designed to limit the spread of COVID-19. In this episode hear about the new type of immersive and digital format – the fashion film – which emerged during a year in lockdown spent staring at screens. Bronwyn Cosgrave discusses the reimagining of the fashion show with industry insiders; fashion photographer Robert Fairer, author, editor-at-large at Air Mail and special correspondent to Vanity Fair Amy Fine Collins, fashion and culture journalist and bestselling author Dana Thomas, and fashion photographer and filmmaker Sølve Sundsbø.

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As cities all over the world open up, Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive are welcoming back visitors as part of a Summer ‘21 travel phenomenon. 90210, the legendary zip code and “the street of dreams” are beloved both by residents and by those that jet in for a vacation. In this episode, hear from those in the know on how Beverly Hills maintains its captivating allure, and the backstory on its signature high style.

Host Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to Julie Wagner, CEO of the Beverly Hills Conference and Visitors Bureau, about the local finds and hidden gems like GEARYS Beverly Hills, the 500 cheeses at the Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, Arturo’s, the shoe fixer par excellence, and custom libations like the Pretty Woman cocktail served at the Beverly Wilshire. Saudi-born, LA-based singer-songwriter Tamtam, who graced the June cover of Vogue Arabia, explains why Beverly Hills is so meaningful to her it even inspires her songs. Luning Wang, columnist for Financial Times China, adds that travelers are drawn to “the association with Hollywood and all the celebrities and the secret VIP services brands can offer.” 

Cosgrave also explores the moving backstory to the luxury houses and hotels of Hollywood’s Golden Era. She talks with Royal Kennedy Rodgers and Kathy Vance, producers and directors of the 2021 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary “Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story,” about the celebrated African American “architect to the stars”, who created Beverly Hills style at a time when he was not welcome in white neighborhoods. Kathy Gohari, President of the Rodeo Drive Committee, explains why Rodeo Drive is an international destination that still feels like a village, where people are proud of the City’s history and heritage.

If you’d like to have your own Pretty Woman moment by replicating the Beverly Wilshire’s Feeling Pretty cocktail at home, here’s how.

Enjoy and get inspired by this new episode of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast. 

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Halston and Gucci dressed the stars of Hollywood and helped put Rodeo Drive on the map. The behind-the-scenes drama at these legendary fashion houses earned them the Hollywood treatment.

Halston is the five-time Emmy-nominated Netflix series starring actor Ewan McGregor, directed by Daniel Minahan and produced by Ryan Murphy.

House of Gucci is the big-screen movie, opening this fall, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, directed by Ridley Scott.

On this episode of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast, host Bronwyn Cosgrave talks to the writers of the books that inspired these narratives.

Steven Gaines, author of Simply Halston shares his story about Roy Halston Frowick, the small town kid from Iowa who transformed American women's fashion, reigned over 1970s New York, and then lost everything, even his name, to a corporate takeover, sex, drugs and premature death.

“No other designer up until that point had become such a giant superstar, as Halston was, and part of that was Liza (Minelli), Studio 54, that whole thing that was going on,” says Gaines, who also recalls his own experiences with the wild discotheque. Of course, he adds, “Halston was a genius in terms of design.”

Sara Gay Forden, longtime fashion industry reporter, watched the larger-than-life trial of Patrizia Gucci for the hired killing of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci, the last of the Gucci family to head the fashion house. She wrote the book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamor and Greed. Forden takes listeners back to the founding of Gucci in Florence a century ago as a leather goods company, and through its strife and glamour-filled transformation into the global megabrand it is today.

“This was a saga,” says Forden, “a narrative that combined all the elements that you could imagine: the family, the fashion, the business, the jealousy, the fights.” 

Listeners will also find out how Rodeo Drive lured these brands as they sought to build relationships with the entertainment world and adorn the stars of Hollywood.

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Highly-crafted timepieces are so desirable that all the top brands have a presence on Rodeo Drive today. On this episode of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast, host Bronwyn Cosgrave meets the watch dealers and aficionados who have made the luxury thoroughfare a destination for haute horology: Nicola Cagliata, regional manager for Jaeger LeCoultre and the former president of the Rodeo Drive Committee; Tom Blumenthal CEO of GEARYS Beverly Hills, which owns boutiques on Rodeo Drive for Rolex and Patek Philippe, and Greg Simonian, president of Westime luxury watch store on Two Rodeo Drive, who is opening a new space devoted to the competitive resale market.  

Cosgrave also speaks to a new group of passionate women collectors and commentators. Ming Liu, who writes about watches for publications including British Vogue, the Financial Times and the New York Times says, “The days of the man in your life buying the watch for you, those days are over. Women want watches that express who they are.” Iris Ko, an anesthesiologist in Los Angeles who now owns 57 collectibles, including a rare Vacheron Constantin that she purchased on a speedy time out during an operation, explains her obsession for the artistry, passion, creativity, and history of luxury watches.

Highly crafted watches can be as sought after as fine paintings and cost as much as a house or a vintage car. Cosgrave delves into why, in an age of technology and smart watches, traditional timepieces continue to hold such an allure.

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High fashion has always been a feast for the eyes. Now it’s tickling the taste buds, as the world’s top luxury brands venture into food. Some of today’s finest chefs are collaborating with designers and fashion houses to open restaurants and launch gastronomy ventures, such as Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura on Rodeo Drive.

On this episode of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast, host Bronwyn Cosgrave steps into Gucci’s food and fashion universe, and meets Head Chef Mattia Agazzi. He explains how Massimo Bottura fuses a love of art and cooking with local ingredients at his bistro-style Gucci Osterias in Florence and now Beverly Hills. Cosgrave experiences the glamorous interior -- with cherry red, velvet banquettes and gleaming, stainless steel kitchen --and artful, playful dishes, like “Uni Carbonara,” a whirl of bright green spaghetti with a twist of orange uni atop and “Oops I Broke the Meringue,” a cracked disc of thin meringue with a raspberry colored leaves and flowers echoing the Richard Ginori dinnerware.  

Cosgrave also meets a fashion designer who has turned his creative skills to food: Humberto Leon, a former creative director of the iconic Paris label Kenzo. Now Leon has gone back to his roots and, with his mother, sister, and brother-in-law, they have created Chifa, a Peruvian-Chinese restaurant with a sumptuous interior designed to invoke a sense of celebration in vivid green and gold, with heart motifs and wallpaper designed by Leon with Calico Wallpaper.

Listen to the conversation to hear how couture and cuisine have come together to provide a new and accessible entrée to leading luxury brands.

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Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast invites listeners back for more stories about the world’s most coveted brands and boutiques, brought directly from Rodeo Drive by Host Pari Ehsan and Field Correspondent Jason E.C Wright. Ehsan is the Iranian American founder of Pari Dust, an influential, digital platform for art and fashion. Wright is the founder of Burntsienna Research Society, an L.A. design research agency, and is an expert on fashion and the future of design and retail.

They will speak to some of the biggest names in fashion, luxury art, and entertainment, among them Jeffrey Deitch, Dirk Schönberger, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp and Eric Buterbaugh. Over eight episodes, they will explore the convergence of art and sport with fashion, sustainability, luxury sneakers and the metaverse. The new addition of on- the-ground audio and video reporting will keep listeners up to date on current developments and conversations in fashion and luxury from the iconic, three-block stretch in Beverly Hills.

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When Frieze Week in Beverly Hills was unveiled next to the Beverly Hilton, collectors and dealers turned out in high style for the VIP opening, confirming what many already knew: art, fashion and entertainment converge in Beverly Hills.

“Beverly Hills is where the art world meets,” says Jeffrey Deitch, art dealer and curator, referencing the collectors and cognoscenti who mingle in the city’s galleries and restaurants.

On this episode of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast, host Pari Ehsan and field correspondent Jason E.C. Wright explore how art and fashion intersect in the city of Beverly Hills and on Rodeo Drive itself, from public artworks on the street like Robert Graham’s sculpture Torso to creative collaborations between couture houses and artists.

Ehsan sits down with Deitch to discuss what makes the city a magnet for art enthusiasts, and what makes for successful art and fashion collaborations. “We've seen some artist-fashion collaborations that are dead on arrival. But then we've seen others that are just fantastic and inspiring. So some people saw me and my team at the opening of Frieze…all wearing a Kenny Scharf–Dior Men’s collaboration..that's a very good example of an excellent collaboration.”

Wright takes in the scene on Rodeo Drive with Kathy Gohari, President of Rodeo Drive Committee. “I see tourists coming early in the morning before the stores are even open and they're hugging the Torso and taking pictures.…They're not just coming to look at the buildings and the beautiful restaurants and the clothes, but it's the whole environment.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast below and subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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The German luxury fashion house MCM got its start during the hedonistic 1970s in Munich, Germany. Now it enters a new era under the leadership of global creative officer Dirk Schönberger. He has revamped the logo, created partnerships with breakthrough artists and is taking the brand into a new realm, the metaverse.

“We're creating virtual worlds instead of big sets for campaign shoots, and creating partnerships with online platforms where you can dress your avatar in our clothes. And this is only the beginning,” he tells host Pari Ehsan, on Episode 2 of Season 3 of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast. “What is really important is to use the metaverse as a space of co-creation,” he adds, saying that today brands need to bring their customers into the design process.

Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright visits the MCM flagship store with Kathy Gohari, president of the Rodeo Drive Committee, and together they analyze the updated Stark backpack and München tote as well as the ubiquitous MCM logo, visible on all clothing and accessories, now in both the original Visetos logo and the new Cubic Monogram version created by Schönberger. It appears on fabrics in bold color or subtle shades.

“You're able to turn the brightness meter up and down,” says Wright, who grew up with MCM as part of the hip hop generation. “This is not a revolution. It's an evolution,” says Gohari.

Music is core to MCM’s identity and Ehsan talks with Schönberger about his collaborations with young artists, including Billie Eilish, Missy Elliott and now iann dior. The goal, says Schönberger, is authentic connection with the artists and an attitude and point of view that feels right. “I want disruption. I don't want a conservative point of view. I don't just want to buy a name and connect it to the brand.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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Before Rodeo Drive, there was the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, a magnet for luminaries of film and entertainment since it opened in the roaring twenties. Now the grand dame of luxury hospitality is getting a makeover and that includes a new offering for guests, The Dreamer.

On Episode 3 of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast host Pari Ehsan gets a taste of the experience, when she takes up residence in a newly-remodeled 11th floor suite and meets the longtime celebrity photographer Art Streiber.

“Treat celebrities like real people, and treat real people like celebrities,” says Streiber, who will turn his camera on hotel guests who purchase The Dreamer, which gives them the ultimate Hollywood access: to be the subject of their own private celebrity photo shoot, a chance to shop with stylist Nicole Pollard Bayme, have their hair coiffed by Léa Journo and meet and eat with top chef Wolfgang Puck.

Ehsan and Streiber discuss the enduring appeal of composed, still photography. “The portrait I take of you today is not about today. It is documentary, for 20, 30 years from now,” says Streiber. They also reflect on the art of staging sitters against the architectural backdrop of the hotel, styled after old Europe and now being given a refresh.

Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright talks with the hotel’s current Regional Vice President and General Manager Peter Humig, who is overseeing the renovation, designed by London-based David Collins Studio, with a new palette of soft grays and hints of Art Deco. Humig tells Wright they wanted to hold onto Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel’s glamor, history and excellent service, without being too opulent. “Modern luxury is not how it used to be in the 80s and 90s. Now it's the subtle elegance,” says Humig.

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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In a world dominated by fast fashion, Brunello Cucinelli keeps it slow, creating hand-crafted, ultra-luxury womenswear and menswear that elevates the well-being of those who wear his garments and those who make them.

“Beauty is not only in how you dress, but how you behave…making sure that the community benefits from the presence of all of us,” says his daughter Carolina Cucinelli, co-president and co-creative director of the company. She talks with host Pari Ehsan on Episode 4 of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast about the Italian brand and continuing its humanistic philosophy of fashion and social responsibility.

Ms. Cucinelli describes a childhood in Solomeo, the small hamlet that is home to her family and the company headquarters in Umbria, Italy. There she grew up with the artisans who create the one of a kind, exquisitely tailored, heirloom pieces in cashmere, shearling leather and soft cottons. She explains how Brunello Cucinelli invests in the community, through arts, culture and a School of Contemporary Arts and Crafts for a new generation of tailors. This is the definition of sustainability, she says. “I think the younger generation want to buy less, but buy better.”

Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright visits the Brunello Cucinelli boutique on Two Rodeo Drive, taking listeners on an audio tour through the highly-curated retail experience. He describes the calming colors and textures of the interiors and  and furnishings; the silky mens’ jackets and blazers; and the women's Opera collection, featuring cardigans and suits threaded, he says, “with sequins that reflect the light in such a way that you don't notice them immediately. And then it looks like a million cameras have flashed.”

Finally, Carolina Cucinelli explains the company’s attraction to Los Angeles and why they chose two of its architectural landmarks – the Stahl House and the Bradbury Building – for a recent photoshoot. “For us (it) is that perfect union of Solomeo and L.A., because it's a majestic place with a beautiful history.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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Art and fashion are being redefined by new, creative voices who transcend the old high and low art boundaries. 

“Visual artists were thought to be less serious if they collaborated with fashion brands or if they appeared in fashion magazines, and now you have folks operating in a real post-medium condition,” says the writer, editor and curator Antwaun Sargent, on Episode 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast. “It's really encouraging to see Carrie Mae Weems, for example, just shoot the latest Prada campaign.”

Sargent is the author and curator of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, the acclaimed publication and touring exhibition that is on view at Cleveland Museum of Art through mid-September 2022. He is also a director at Gagosian, a global network of art galleries, and he is currently working on an exhibition developed with the late Virgil Abloh, former artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection. Abloh’s fluidity was influential on the boundaryless creativity today, says Sargent. “One day, one hour, he's designing a dress, the next hour he's designing a sculpture, the next he's making music.”

Sargent talks with host Pari Ehsan about the Abloh show, about the dissolving of boundaries between art and fashion today, and about diversity and inclusion and how to do it authentically. “It's less for me about some stale notion of inclusivity or diversity, and more about allowing folks to fully express themselves in this space that they should have always had a claim to,” he says.

This fluidity between disciplines – art, fashion, food, publishing – is also visible on Rodeo Drive, where luxury brands and fashion houses that once mainly sold clothing now offer curated exhibition and retail spaces and even restaurants. Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright checks out stores including Saint Laurent and its current Rive Droite installation conceived by the house's Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello and exclusive to its Paris and Rodeo Drive boutiques.

Rive Droite features surfboards and furniture made in collaboration with Hervet Manufacturier, along with lighters and playing cards, branded headphones, footwear and bags, vinyl, art and design magazines and books. This really expands on how “the art collector is intersecting in the fashion world and those from the fashion side are collecting objects,” says Wright, adding, “it's a beautiful way of seeing this evolution of the stores being more than just a retail space and a point of experience for the world.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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The Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance, which takes place annually on Father’s Day, shows that fashion and fine cars are inseparable. And racing drivers like Lindsay Brewer agree.

“I race and I enjoy that,” Brewer tells host Pari Ehsan on Rodeo Drive–The Podcast. “But I also can have the full face of makeup and do my hair and look glamorous, because that's what I like to do, too, it doesn’t have to be one or the other.”  

Brewer, who is racing in Indy Pro 2000 and has a social media following of more than three million, opens up to Ehsan about how to beat the boys on the track, and be a serious driver while maintaining a glamorous brand that is essential for building sponsorship. She also previews her new line of unisex, 80s skiwear-inspired clothing. 

Meanwhile, Rodeo Drive-The Podcast Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright goes deep underground to meet Scot Prescott, owner and founder of Auto Vault Storage, a storage and restoration service for some of the finest cars in the world, which in true Bond style, is buried three stories underneath Rodeo Drive. Prescott tours him round his padded garage filled with rare, fast and exotic cars under covers and recounts his journey from New Hampshire, where he was a kid with a dream. 

“I used to dream about coming to California. And once I graduated from high school, I drove out here. I arrived here with $70. And I started washing cars. I bought some equipment. I wanted to become the king of car washing.”

“Every car has a story,” he adds, like the 1934 Rolls-Royce stored there by a woman whose family has owned the car for generations. “The family assigns people to take care of the car, because this car is a family member. And she has been assigned to take care of this car. She lives in California, so the car lives here.”

The Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance was founded in 1993 by the Beverly Hills businessman and Chairman of the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance Bruce Meyer and friends who wanted to raise funds to restore an iconic Beverly Hills fire truck, so they created a Father’s Day car show on Rodeo Drive. Almost three decades later, it has become an institution, but had to put the brakes on during the pandemic. When the Concours returns, Meyer promises it will be ”without a doubt our best show ever,” featuring “an extraordinary display of Rolls-Royces, supercars, antique cars” along with the famed Fire Truck, which will lead the parade.

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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Fashion used to be separated into womenswear and menswear. Today, it is much more gender fluid. “It's really about a movement of pleasing yourself and being self aware and not you know, hindering who your true self is,” says Vanity Fair Fashion Director Nicole Chapoteau, “And I think clothing is like one of the first ways you can express that.”  

Chapoteau joins host Pari Ehsan for a conversation about her approach to the editorial pages of the magazine, and about dressing and expressing identity – in daily life and on a celebrity photoshoot.

“It is all about personality with a touch of glam and glitz,” explains Chapoteau, adding that people often believe the actor or musician they see performing is that character in real life. At Vanity Fair, the manual for Hollywood and fashion, “you learn about who they are themselves and not the roles they portray.”

Field correspondent Jason E.C. Wright picks up the theme of gender fluidity in fashion on a tour of Two Rodeo Drive with Rodeo Drive Committee President Kathy Gohari. They window-shop at Versace, Shinobi, Porsche Design and Westime.

At Shinobi, for example, says Wright, “their whole concept was, ‘what would James Bond wear on his weekend off’? And what would any of the Bond girls wear from his closet? So the footwear that they source and manufacture in Japan, there's a size available for them as well as a blouson or two to borrow from the boys.”

Whether the vitrine is displaying watches, jewelry, pants suits or bags, fashion has broken away from boundaries, and is available, say Gohari and Wright, to “she or he or they.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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Rodeo Drive brings out the glamor in people – and their pooches – as leading fashion houses develop lines for pets and the luxury thoroughfare offers the red carpet treatment to canines and their pet parents. 

One of the dogs who might be seen strutting his stuff on Rodeo Drive is Sebastian The Standard, the show-stopping white Standard Poodle who is a fixture on Instagram and has starred in movies including Beyonce’s “Black is King”. “The poodle has always been, for me, my dream dog,” says Allysa Payne, his pet parent and momager. “I think Sebastian looks like Beverly Hills to me.” 

Payne talks to host Pari Ehsan about her line of luxury shoes and handbags, keeping Sebastian camera-ready and why leading fashion houses are so eager to reach the pet market. “More and more couples are deciding to have pets instead of children. And so of course, they spoil them like children, buying them high quality, pet fashion,” says Payne.

The best place to show the latest and greatest looks is on Rodeo Drive, which will offer photo opportunities for visitors and their pets this summer. Field correspondent Jason E.C. Wright learns more about the BOLD Summer Red Carpet Experience from Rodeo Drive Committee President Kathy Gohari. “We are having multiple, experiential photo moments, where you will be on the red carpet and you will be able to have your picture captured and to take something back home to show people that you were the star on Rodeo Drive for the day.” 

The red carpet opportunity will take place every afternoon from July 25 to August 21. It goes hand in hand with The Dreamer experience at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, offering hotel guests the opportunity to live life for a day like the stars. Ehsan got a taste of that experience when she had her hair styled by the famed Léa Journo at her salon inside the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel. Journo shares her amazing life story which began in Paris, France, where she was one of ten children and started cutting hair at age fourteen. On being invited to Los Angeles, she became one of the most sought after stylists in Hollywood, counting Kris Jenner, Britney Spears, Jane Fonda and Jennifer Aniston among her stellar client list. Journo says the secret to her success is finding the beauty in all women. “I always say every woman is beautiful. You just need to look at her very well, find her the right color and find her the right hair. Then she's the queen.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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At age 14, a country boy left an abusive home to take a job peeling potatoes in a nearby restaurant. Two decades later he was a legendary chef, restaurateur, and caterer to the stars in Hollywood.

Wolfgang Puck shares his extraordinary journey on Rodeo Drive: The Podcast, Season Four, in a conversation with Lyn Winter.

Born in a rural village in Austria, Puck set off on his own after middle school and worked his way to the top of fine dining in Provence, Paris and Monte Carlo before arriving in Los Angeles, where he transformed Ma Maison and then launched the game-changing Spago in West Hollywood and then Beverly Hills, followed by Chinois On Main, and now CUT by Wolfgang Puck Restaurant and Lounge at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel.

Along the way, he invented the open kitchen, introduced Asian fusion, elevated farm-to-table produce and became the caterer for the Oscars. Now his empire spans more than 27 restaurants around the globe, cookware, wine and coffee lines, best selling cookbooks and a documentary film. He has a star on Hollywood Boulevard, a character based on him in an animated TV show, and is studying at Harvard.

Puck talks about the twists and turns on his path to success, including the challenges of seating the stars in the most popular restaurant in town. He recalls feeding Lionel Ritchie and Jimmy Connors on the staircase, creating smoked salmon pizza for Joan Collins, and sealing the deal to cater the Academy Awards.

“I said, ‘I don't tell you how to make the movie, you don't tell me what to cook,’ and that was it. And they said, okay, and they were happy because they didn't have to choose. Before they used to get into fights; one wanted chicken, one wanted fish, one wanted steak, and so forth.”

He recollects the violence in his life, first from a terrible stepfather and then in the kitchens of his early days. “It used to be totally, totally crazy in the kitchens, you know. And for what? … But normally, if they mess up something, I just show them how to do it the right way, right. It's easier than yelling at them.”

And he expresses the joy of foraging for fresh vegetables, dating back to his childhood with his beloved mother, also a cook. 

“If you ask me, ‘what do you prefer, going shopping at Neiman Marcus or to the farmers market’? There is no doubt that we'll go to the farmers market. So for me, our cooking is all about the ingredients. If we get the best ingredients and then we don’t mess them up we're going to have good food.”

Finally, Puck talks about bringing in the next generation and his son Byron, even though he has no plans to stop working himself, “I get excited about everything…to me, continuing doing what you love to do and when you're passionate about it, that's what life is all about.”

Season Four of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season Four Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kathy Gohari

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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When the art collector and curator Jim Hedges was growing up in the South, New York was a “bright shining star” to which Interview Magazine was his “gateway drug.” 

“You know, as a 12 year old little boy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, dreaming about the big city and Studio 54 and the New York City art world…Warhol and his cult of personality, his cult of celebrity, the landscape that he was a part of, were all very, very enticing to me,” Hedges tells host Lyn Winter on Episode 2 of the latest season of Rodeo Drive - The Podcast.

Now Hedges is the owner of one of the largest collections of Andy Warhol photographs in the world, and he is the new Curator of the Arts for the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Hotel Bel-Air, where his show Jean Pigozzi - The Photographs: Beverly Hills to Cap d’Antibes, is currently on display until May 31, 2023.

Hedges reflects on how a career in investment banking turned into pursuit of another hot commodity: art, especially Warhol’s photography: “For Warhol, it was really the source material for 99% of all the artwork that he ever made. In other words, he would take a picture of Marilyn Monroe… and use that as source material to make the painting… And then I found that this work was actually rather undervalued… and I started to think of it as an investment and ultimately a business.”

From Warhol he turned his attention to Jean Pigozzi, another photographer with, “incredible access to celebrity and the movers and shakers. And they both documented these worlds in a very compelling and sort of singular voice.”

Now some of Pigozzi’s seductive images, taken in hotspots from Beverly Hills to Cap D’Antibes, are on display, some for the first time, at the Beverly Hills Hotel: a nighttime shot of Muhammad Ali framed perfectly in the window of a limousine; Yves Saint Laurent and his muse Loulou de La Falaise in Paris; Mick Jagger with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the South of France.

Not only are the images stunningly glamorous, but so is the classic Hollywood hotel setting, says Hedges. “The experience of going to a white cube kind of art gallery that is austere and unwelcoming is not as great as sitting in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel and looking at Johnny Pigozzi’s photos or walking through the gardens of the Hotel Bel-Air…That's a better way to experience art.”

Season Four of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season Four Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kathy Gohari

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso

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Richard Mille pioneered a new era of watchmaking with the 2001 launch of the RM 001 Tourbillon, which set a standard for today's billionaires’ handshake. 

The Swiss company is also a close family business, with sons Alex and Guillaume involved, and brand direction now helmed by Mille’s daughter Amanda.

Amanda Mille sat down with Rodeo Drive - The Podcast to talk about maintaining the image of the world’s most advanced and most expensive watches, through creative partnerships with ambassadors including Michelle Yeoh, Charles Leclerc, Nelly Korda, and Rafael Nadal, who form the company’s extended “family.”

Mille tells host Lyn Winter about a journey into her father’s business that began with a move to the Middle East and is full of unexpected moments, like a phone call from Jeremy Strong, Kendall Roy in Succession, about wearing a Richard Mille watch as an expression of his character. He said “we need something a bit more classical in a way, but with a push of modernity,” recalls Mille. She chose to give the detail-obsessed actor an RM 67-01. It was perfect. “Platinum, of course, added the kind of powerness behind Succession and all the stories happening to his character.”

She also shares the deep creative relationships with the athletes that sport, literally, Richard Mille watches, helping perfect the product while performing at their best. “When you have someone like Yuliya Levchenko doing high jumping, you need to be sure that the watch doesn't move on the wrist and is still comfortable…Our partners are the only ones that are able to give us the feedback that even a machine will never tell you.”

The Mille company is deeply connected with motor-racing, and sponsors Formula One and Le Mans. Amanda Mille shares her love of motorsport and driving, and promises to bring the 100% female, Rallye Des Princesses Richard Mille to California. 

Finally, she talks about the exclusivity of the company’s watches that involve many years of research and development at the end of which come very few new pieces. The wait can be long and tantalizing for people who order one. “We are not laughing at the fact that people are frustrated at not being able to get the watch. We know how difficult it is. But we also know how difficult these watches are to be made,” says Mille.

The Richard Mille Beverly Hills boutique is located on Two Rodeo Drive at 222 N. Rodeo Drive.

Season four of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season Four Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kathy Gohari

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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You’re no doubt familiar with haute couture, but how about haute parfumerie? That’s what you find at Henry Jacques, the jewel box of a perfume boutique on Two Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.

The ultra exclusive French perfumery was founded in the 1970s by Henry Jacques and his wife Yvette, creating bespoke fragrances for private clients. When it was on the brink of closure, their daughter Anne-Lise Cremona stepped in, and has led the company in opening exquisite retail boutiques around the world.

On Episode 4 of Rodeo Drive–The Podcast, Season 4, Cremona, now global CEO, talks to Lyn Winter about bringing perfume into the 21st century, while preserving the brand's storied history and tradition, 

Henry Jacques takes cues from French haute couture, explains Cremona, which hues to tradition while creating a bridge to innovation. “We produce everything in house. We do a lot of things by hand, and we keep using a certain know-how that doesn't exist commonly today.” 

Meanwhile, the company has opened a state of the art laboratory with more than 1200 components of perfume, and produced cutting edge delivery systems for perfume like the titanium Clic-Clac for solid scents.

She talks about collaborations, with her uncle, Richard Mille, and Rafael Nadal and his wife Maria, and with the maison’s designer Christophe Tollemer on the branding of the company and the luxurious, wood-paneled, apartment-style interiors that offer visitors a sense of mystery and discovery.  “It’s perhaps also the future of retail to open a door and enter a completely new world, where you are transported by a universe,” Cremona says.

Cremona also talks about why the company no longer has the traditional, singular “nose,” and offers thoughts on outmoded gender distinctions in perfume. One evening in Italy, she recounts, her son wore La Nuit, a flowery perfume made of white flowers and orange blossom.  “Everybody was crazy in love with the spirit, the perfume he wore. And who could imagine that this perfume would suit a young boy?”

Finally, Cremona shares her personal wardrobe of scents, the joy of keeping the business in the family, and the endless delight of working with Henry Jacques perfumes, that in addition to being “haute” are also labeled “vivante.” “I like things to be living. And perfume helps you to feel alive. And that's why it's haute parfumerie vivante. We're here, we exist. It's possible.”

The Henry Jacques boutique is located on Two Rodeo Drive at 204 N Rodeo Drive.

Season 4 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 4 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kathy Gohari

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was the beautiful fashion PR who married the most eligible bachelor in America, John Kennedy Jr. The couple, and Carolyn’s sister Lauren, tragically lost their lives when a plane flown by Kennedy crashed into the ocean in 1999.

But Bessette Kennedy had an outsize influence on style and fashion in the 1990s that endures today, and her legacy has been celebrated in a new book, CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion, by the British author and fashion creative director Sunita Kumar Nair, with a foreword by Gabriela Hearst, and preface by Edward Enninful, OBE.

On Episode 5 of Season 4 of Rodeo Drive - The Podcast, Kumar Nair talks with Lyn Winter about her carefully curated and sumptuously illustrated book, which tracks Bessette Kennedy’s fairytale rise, starting with a job at a Calvin Klein store in a mall where she was, ”plucked by a corporate executive at Calvin Klein, and offered the golden ticket – come to New York.”

From there the willowy blonde with a knack for an ultra-chic and minimal “thrown together look,” became a fashion muse herself, in an era when American fashion traded padded shoulders and power suits for the understated elegance and comfort of Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren.

Kumar Nair shares anecdotes about the celebrities – Kate Moss, Jennifer Aniston, Sharon Stone – and the great names in fashion and design who worked with Bessette Kennedy, and were inspired by her.  

She says the photographer Mario Sorrenti “remembers a time when they were sitting on the floor, talking about what the goals were for the advertising,” and corporate would want to know, “what does Carolyn think?”

She also talks about Bessette Kennedy’s powerful sense of self, wearing what pleased her despite societal expectations. When she married into American royalty, she might have taken to “wearing perhaps Dior or Yves Saint Laurent,” as well as the jewelry she inherited from her late mother-in-law Jackie Kennedy, also a fashion icon. “But instead she chose to wear Yohji Yamamoto and Ann Demeulemeester, and I think the only piece of jewelry (of Jackie Kennedy’s) that she would wear often was Jackie's Cartier Tank.”

Finally, Kumar Nair explains how Bessette Kennedy’s allure endures today, in part because of how she approached life and clothes, with discretion and simplicity. “I think there is just this demand for her because there's a dignity in the way that she lived and I think it's inspiring for people who didn't grow up with her to pick up a book and discover her and her world.”

Season 4 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 4 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kathy Gohari

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso

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The holiday season is in full swing and boutique windows are glittering on Rodeo Drive. So who better to talk to right now than the famed window dresser, Simon Doonan!

When he was creative director at Barney’s, Doonan never missed an opportunity for maximal effect with storefront displays that transformed fashion retail into spectacle. Now he is a writer and eminence on all things style-related – and he has released a new book about design at full volume.

Maximalism: Bold, Bedazzled, Gold, and Tasseled Interiors, features lavish spaces around the world: from opulent Old World interiors to a Bel Air bedroom with no surface untouched, by Kelly Wearstler, the candy colored Trixie Motel in Palm Springs by Dani Dazey, and Doonan’s own bedazzling New York apartment, designed by his husband Jonathan Adler.

Guest host Frances Anderton talks with Doonan on the season-closer of Rodeo Drive - The Podcast about why you can never layer on too much, and how Maximalism is right at home in Los Angeles, dating “from Busby Berkeley to Tiny Naylor's coffee shop,” and on to today’s spectacular concerts by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Harry Styles. “We live in such a visual world that minimal decor doesn't mean anything online or on your phone or on TikTok” says Doonan. “Everything has to be maximal, and LA is at the center of the culture in so many ways.”

Doonan recalls an encounter with the larger-than-life Tony Duquette at his home Dawnridge, in Beverly Hills. Duquette, a prolific designer whose resume includes creating costumes and sets for Fred Astaire musicals, and making jewelry for Tom Ford in his eighties, filled his home and garden with antiques, chinoiserie, sunburst sculptures, gold-leafing, tapestries and cleverly upcycled trash. It was, says Doonan, an “unhinged visual extravaganza.”

Doonan peppers the conversation with amusing insights. When asked if maximalism, or “maxi,” can ever become too messy, he says he will never judge, having fond memories of a childhood vacation at the blue collar Butlins holiday camp in the UK, which was “drenched in the fabulosity of maximalism.” He adds, “If somebody is happy, and their apartment looks like a good reflection of them, you do you, boo.” As for the ultra-rich who prefer battleship gray T-shirts over lavish displays of affluence, “one of the most hilarious things is when somebody becomes so wealthy that the only way they can find pleasure is to build a concrete bunker on a Swedish Island, and go and hide in it,” says Doonan.

Finally, to those who believe minimalism is the path to happiness, he concludes: “I just think maximalism is more life affirming and maximalism doesn't need minimalism…Minimalism relies on maximalism to have something to denounce, whereas maximalism is much too big to fail.”

Season 4 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 4 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kathy Gohari

Scriptwriter, Editorial Advisor and Guest Host: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso

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As the heat of summer rises on Rodeo Drive, how better to stay cool and chic than in the most versatile, enduring and fluid garment of all time –– the Caftan! So says the man with more than thirty of them, Cameron Silver, author of the new book Caftans: From Classical to Camp.

Silver talks with Rodeo Drive - The Podcast host Lyn Winter about the history, design and appeal of the caftan, which he says is the most universal and ancient garment in the world. 

“It is this wonderful garment of comfort that’s size inclusive, that's gender fluid, that can be modest or sexy. It can be voluminous or follow the lines of the body, it can be luxurious, or very accessible.”

He points out that the caftan, essentially a square of fabric with holes for the head and arms, kept plain or highly ornamental, has been worn by Jesus, Moses, Muhammad and Buddha. “It is this cultural garment of incredible reverence in Morocco,” says Silver; it was worn with high camp by the singer Demis Roussos and extraordinary grace by Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and numerous other celebrities. It has been styled by the likes of Fortuny, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Marc Bohan for Dior, Karl Lagerfeld, Emilio Pucci, Rudi Gernreich, and Oscar de la Renta. 

Silver, who conducted the interview wearing a lightweight, hooded, 100% cotton caftan designed by Trina Turk, has taken his book on the road from Texas to Mykonos. He notes that wherever he goes he finds an enthusiastic “caftan caucus” of people wearing and talking about caftans, which he says is the quintessential Athleisure garment, counterintuitively more glamorous than body hugging clothes.

It’s not “just a sack,” says Silver. “The reality is that when you wear it, you have to really move your body; you become a Martha Graham dancer, even if you have two left feet like me.” 

SIlver, who was previously Fashion Director for H by Halston for QVC, adds that “Halston famously did his first runway shows featuring caftans and in the late 60s and 70s they became even more popular.” Right now, he says there is a caftan renaissance, with variants appearing at all the runway shows. “It may have taken a Western and European fashion several decades to really understand that it's a good idea to have a caftan in your collection.”

Even though Silver wears his caftans in all seasons, he says this floaty garment, that can be worn from day into evening, is especially appealing in the summer. “It is the garment of the people. Regardless of your size or your gender, or your means or your location, there is a caftan waiting out there for you.”

Season 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 5 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kay Monica Rose

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso

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Since the beginning of time, humans have sought the secret to eternal youth and beauty. One company that believes it has gotten closer to cracking the code is La Maison Valmont, the luxury Swiss skincare brand that will open a boutique on Rodeo Drive on July 15.

La Maison Valmont, founded in 1985, will offer Rodeo Drive clientele its trademark five collections – hydration, luminosity, vitality, V-lift and V-firm – designed for young and more mature complexions. But it plans to elevate the experience with a custom treatment, called – naturally – the Red Carpet of Valmont, as well as a new line of perfumes, and additional experiences such as changing exhibitions of art. 

“When you enter the world of Valmont, which is more than a skincare brand today, it's a style of life where you really enjoy the five senses. And we call it a world of emotion,” Sophie and Didier Guillon told host Lyn Winter, on the latest episode of Rodeo Drive - The Podcast.  

La Maison Valmont is esteemed for its discreet, five-star service, and products including $1000 dollar jars of Creme Merveilleuse made with the DNA of gold sturgeon. Their treatments and potions are based on “cellular science,” explains Sophie Vann Guillon, CEO and chief scientist at the brand. This is a form of skincare developed in Switzerland in which the “natural reactions and functions of the cells and skin” are rejuvenated by living cells that are “biocompatible” with one's skin.

The company has been shaped by the passions of both its owners. Didier Guillon, raised in a family of art collectors, has founded an art foundation at the Palazzo Bonvicini in Venice, Italy. The foundation organizes residencies at its properties around the world that “welcome artists or customers who really want to discover what we are proposing on the art scene. We want to be different. We want to offer something unique, I would say out of the box.” He is also curating art for sale at the new salon on Rodeo Drive; an exhibition by Venice, Los Angeles based artist Andy Moses is on the docket as the first exhibition. 

Finally, their new location has stirred some flights of fancy, like the fragrances they are creating from plants cultivated in Vann Guillon’s alpine garden. Didier Guillon says a famous movie inspired him to develop, “a fantastic fragrance called Scarface. It was my fragrance based on violets.” Vann Guillon takes her cues from LA's coastal splendor and surfing culture.

“Sea bliss! It's a fresh scent with ozonic appeal while reminding us of the waves of the ocean. It's fresh, and it's a little bit flowery. So it really fits the Californians.”

Season 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 5 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kay Monica Rose

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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Watchmaking may date back two centuries but in the hands of Maximilian Büsser, it has been revived as a contemporary art form. Büsser is the founder of MB&F, or Max Büsser and Friends, which he describes as a “horological concept laboratory.” 

Now MB&F has opened a gallery on Two Rodeo Drive, filled with his collective’s kinetic art and mechanical art devices, like World Sky by Breakfast Studio with whirring discs that spin between functions: camera, mirror, and weather report; and the MB&F’s Architect HM11, inspired by an organic Charles Haertling house in Colorado, and comprising multiple “rooms.”

“We deconstruct traditional, beautiful, high end watchmaking and reconstruct it into sculpture, which gives time,” Büsser tells Lyn Winter, on the latest episode of Rodeo Drive - The Podcast.  

Büsser shares his journey from being a directionless teen in Switzerland to reaching the top of the watch business at Jaeger-LeCoultre and Harry Winston, and then realizing he needed to “find his true north.”  

“I started imagining this fairy tale, I was going to have my own little company, where I would create only what I believed in. I didn't want any investors. I didn't want anybody telling me about growth and profits and all that stuff. It was all about, we're going to create some incredible watchmaking, even though we know there are no clients out there for it.”

Now MB&F has built a strong clientele willing to pay top dollar for the company’s unusual timepieces. But it was not always easy. Büsser reflects on the financial ups and downs, life lessons learned along the way, and the things he wished he had told his father. Finally, he revels in the joy of crafting mechanical instruments with a group of “friends” who share his obsession with “balance wheels,” “perpetual calendars” and other analog components of horology.

Winter closes by asking if there is a future for such an old world craft, and Büsser talks about the appeal of his company’s products to young people.

“MB&F is all about, ‘Live your dreams’. Do whatever you believe in. It is possible. Look at us. It seemed totally impossible, but we managed. And so it resonates strongly with a younger client base, and I love it.”

Season 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 5 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kay Monica Rose

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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For over 100 years Women’s Wear Daily has been the bible for the fashion industry, and its archives include numerous hidden contributions of Black designers and models. Now that history has been gathered in a stunning new book, BLACK IN FASHION, by Tonya Blazio-Licorish and Tara Donaldson, showcasing the indelible influence of Black culture on a global scale.

On Episode 5 of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast, host Lyn Winter spoke with the authors about the book and the revelations they found in the WWD archives.  

“Fashion has a flawed public history because it hasn't included all the voices,” says Blazio-Licorish, also a visual culture historian and editor with PMC Media Archives. “We were always there, and not just there in marginal roles, but in important roles, in roles that were shaping fashion,” adds Donaldson, most recently WWD's executive editor and Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Fairchild Media. 

Dating back as early as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black community was making its mark on clothing and style, from Black dolls for young Black children, early fashion shows, business associations, and fashionable scenes like at The Cotton Club. 

The authors single out early “influencers” such as Josephine Baker, who even had a hosiery color named in her honor, the dancer Katherine Dunham, who was all the rage in 1940s France, and then the Black models, including Pat Cleveland and Bethann Hardison, who shook up global fashion at the famed 1973 Battle of Versailles.

The late André Leon Talley recalled this momentous event in conversation with the authors before his passing. “You could almost just reach out and touch the energy they gave in the air. It was like quiet thunder, and because everyone saw that and felt that at the battle, French designers – Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent – they started wanting black models.”

Black fashion has been intertwined with politics – and BLACK IN FASHION explores how clothing reflected the moment:

“During civil rights, that time was really about respectability politics,” explains Donaldson. “It was coming in your Sunday best, to assert dignity. It was a kind of a polite request for human rights. By the time you get to the 70s, the mood changes, the look changes…then the Black Panther movement, it's more powerful, it's more assertive…You have the leather jackets, you have the turtlenecks, you have the berets. And then we see that evolve even into the 2020s. And there's the branded T-shirts, Black Lives Matter.”

Finally, the story is still unfolding. Black designers are still not getting the high level industry jobs they deserve, argue Blazio-Licorish and Donaldson, and are even ambivalent about being labeled as Black.

So Blazio-Licorish says they finished on a question: “We purposefully left the conversation open to, who's next, who's now, and what do they have to say about where fashion is going to go?”

Season 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 5 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kay Monica Rose

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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