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The Run-Through with Vogue
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Alex De Palma
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Cho Minardi
This episode of the Run through is brought to you by Bumble. One of the reasons why so many of my friends are on Bumble is that it makes conversations feel that much more natural and easy. This is partly thanks to the app's guidance tools, which help you put your most confident self forward, and partly because my friends are also amazing people. Bumble offers tips on writing and filling up prompts, sparking more conversations instead of stale small talk. You'll never be left chatting about the weather again. If you're looking for someone who gets your vibe, refresh your Bumble profile today. This is the Run Through. I'm Cho Minardi and today my lovely co host Chloe is on a much needed vacation. But I'm so excited to be doing headlines with my colleague Laura Ingham. Laura, can you introduce yourself?
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Laura Ingham
Hi everyone, I'm Laura. I'm the deputy director of the Global network here at Vet and basically Vogue's secret weapon.
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Cho Minardi
I feel like, especially at British Vogue, I'm like constantly calling on Laura for advice about everything.
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Laura Ingham
Oh, we work so closely together on all things, all things fashion related.
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Cho Minardi
Yes. Yeah, we had a good gossip yesterday about some news that will come later. But first, today on the show we've got comedian and fashion lover Dan Levy, who stopped by to chat with our guest hosts, Hannah Jackson and Margot Ambuba. Hannah, his new show, Big Mistakes, is about two siblings who get involved in chaotic organized crime and it premieres on Netflix on April 9th in the US and I'm so excited to hear about their conversation. But before we get into all of that, I guess we should recap on the week that we had last week here in London, which was extremely busy.
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Laura Ingham
It was nonstop.
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Cho Minardi
The big, big moment for us was the Vogue Vinter show, which was co hosted by Alexa Chung and Lila Moss. Laura, can you talk about how you were involved in the event? Because I feel like you were basically the mastermind behind all those fabulous pieces on the rack, you and your team.
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Laura Ingham
Oh, it was such a fun sale to work on and it's the second time we've done it. We had a vintage sale this time last year and we learned a lot from it. And this time we worked with our incredible team and our lovely editors to kind of curate all of those pieces that you have got on your watch list and you've been waiting to see come up on any vintage site or any sale. And we got them all together and curated them between our own racks and just generally within the sale to kind of have all of those pieces, those speed, like Elvis speedies, the Prada lipstick print dress and miniskirt. We also had the kind of hacker project. Do you remember the Balenciaga Gucci Hacker project pieces, which sold really well. I had my favorite, the Roe loafers there, which we put on on ebay live, which was really fun.
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Cho Minardi
The ebay live was maybe the highlight for me because we were all upstairs screaming at the ebay live as Julia Hobbs and various editors were selling all of the prized items, including a Rolex watch and a Birkin bag.
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Laura Ingham
I know.
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Cho Minardi
Which went for seven grand, which, if you collect Birkins, is actually a steal.
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Laura Ingham
It was a bargain in fashion terms. I know. And sort of so collectible, timeless pie that you keep forever passed down from generation to generation. People were like, should we be handling this with gloves? They were like, really kind of amazed that we had it and that we'd sourced it. Us too, to be honest. When it came through, we were like, wow, this is actually really exciting. And it was so fun to all. The editors rolled through the Live with their favorite pieces. We sold them with Julia doing the most incredible jokes. As we were going through, we could hear everyone upstairs on the sale, which kind of gave us that impetus to really sell those pieces for as much as we could. So everything in the sale was in aid of Give youe Best, the wonderful
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Cho Minardi
charity and the Give youe Best founder, Sol came and she was shopping it as well, which I thought was really adorable. And she was so happy to see everybody shopping. So it's great.
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Laura Ingham
I know so many people said they spoke to her and how engaged she was in the sale. They're an incredible charity that tackle clothing, poverty and fashion waste, supporting refugees.
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Cho Minardi
Oh, yeah. No, it was really great to see her, and it was lovely to see who showed up. The Rhiann from Wetleg came, and Sienna Miller came with her entire family, her little girl and her teenager, Marlo. So it was really fun to see them shopping on the floor. There was a piece that I selected that I bought that everybody else wanted, which was really this amazing Prada coat.
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Laura Ingham
You got the Prada coat. You had to get it.
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Cho Minardi
I went out to a concert later that night. So many people complimented me on that coat. I was at the Rose Wylie retrospective at The Royal Academy of Art. She's a fantast artist, very well regarded in the fashion world. She's worked with the likes of Jonathan Anderson at Dior, and she's in her 90s, and she had this massive retrospective which she covered in the magazine. So I went, and this woman just came up to me. I just love your coat. And then I went to the Lily Allen concert later that night, and it was like a feeding frenzy. Everybody's like, I love your coat. I was like, okay. I feel less bad for, like, making sure I secured the bag with this coat.
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Laura Ingham
I love that. We truly believed in our edit.
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Dan Levy
We did.
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Cho Minardi
I literally bought my edit. It was like, half of the stuff I bought is like, this is naughty of me.
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Laura Ingham
No, I feel like if you authentically love what you buy and you really, really believe in it, then, you know, there's nothing better to shop into than that. But it was quite funny to watch people watching, like, buying into each other's edits.
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Cho Minardi
Also last week, our big April cover reveal, which was Olivia Rodrigo co starring a chair that got a lot of love and discussion on the Internet. I'm always so curious when people. People get very obsessed with what else is going on on the COVID I know.
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Laura Ingham
Breaking down. Breaking down the shoot. I know. I love that. I love that. And also chair gate. I mean, I love the conversation. Why a chair on the beach? The type of chair on the beach. I mean, I'm here for it. We were talking about it in the office. I think that any engagement in anything that we're doing is only adds to the creative and the impact of the COVID But most importantly, I think everyone just loves that image and that shoot. I think when those images first came in, I remember. Do you remember? We prepped it. I think it was December. It was freezing. Like, you know, when it's drawing in, it's really dark, gloomy evenings. And we were working with the lovely Jordan Bickham, the stylist. My first time working with her, actually. I know you know her really well.
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Cho Minardi
Yeah, we worked when we were relaunching Vogue.com back in the day. She was so great to work with. She was really upon in crime. So it's kind of a bit of a Vogue reunion.
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Laura Ingham
Yeah, it was so nice. I love her sensibility and obviously her taste is, you know, sort of unmatched. And she really sort of deconstructed Olivia's style. She wanted it to be very personal to her from a fashion perspective with a nod to that kind of Alanis Morissette. Grungy era, which threw your shared love of vintage.
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Dan Levy
I know.
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Cho Minardi
Well, she basically ended up shooting my Holy Grail item, which is that pink junior jacket, which I'll be looking for for the rest of my life thanks to Jordan reminding me that I need it in my life. But there were sort of several vintage pieces in it. And I'd never actually met Laura Jane Colson until last Friday. We went and got a very bougie lunch, which was really fun. And she's a complete gorgeous surfer girl. But she's from London, she lives in East London. And I was obviously grilling her about the chair because I was like, what do you think about the chair? And what was the chair about? Tell us about the chair. And she was just like, well, the chair was so that I could. We needed to sort of capture those last rays of golden hour. And so the chair was to elevate Olivia into the light.
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Laura Ingham
Into the light. I love that.
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Cho Minardi
So that was how the chair came about. And she was just like. When she asked for a chair, she just wanted the most basic chair. She didn't want like a fancy design chair. Cause I mean, it would have been weird if it was like an Eames chair. Like, you know what I mean? It would have just like too designy. I kind of love that it was like a chair that you get at school or a chair that you see in like a church hall or something like that. It was.
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Laura Ingham
It's the school ref that I love the most, I think. Yeah, it's true. And going back to those kind of dark nights, it was that incredible warm light that when those pictures first came in and hit our picture desk and it was just that warmth and that gorgeous light kind of seeping through, sun drenched. We kind of took us all away for a moment from our December days and here we are now and starting to see spring. So some light here now.
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Cho Minardi
It's a little bit chilly today, but yeah, I mean, honestly, I can literally feel the sand between my toes. I love that she was barefoot too. On the beach. I went last night to the Schiaparelli dinner, which was for the opening of the exhibit which is at the V and A. And it was so much more star studded than I'd anticipated. It was like half of Hollywood was there.
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Laura Ingham
I was so excited to hear about this. Tell us more. Tell us more.
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Cho Minardi
Yeah, so in the morning I did a walkthrough with Daniel Rosebery, who is a creative director Schiaparelli. He's so clear eyed about his vision of the house and he has. He's so articulate in his. When he's talking about the story behind every single piece, and he can unpack the details on every single collection and every single fabric choice. It's quite incredible hearing him talk through it. And he walked me through some of the pieces that he designed, but also some of the things that made Schiaparelli famous. I didn't know that the kind of. The thing that caused the biggest stir in Paris when she launched were these very simple trampe l' oeil sweaters. That caused a stir when she wore them in a cafe in Paris. And that was how she launched her career. And I think it's interesting to see what would shock people now, because many of the famous pieces that she's known for are in there, including the lobster dress, which was inspired by Dali. And there was a Dali painting that inspired the famous tear dress that she owned in the. And then these wonderful pieces that were made in collaboration with the artist Jean Cocteau. But it was also wonderful to see Daniel's work for the house in person again. You know, obviously, I've seen them at shows, but it's kind of interesting to see his work all together. He often comes with a very different inspiration each season. Cause there's always an element of surprise. I remember when he did those fantastic lionheads. And then one season. And then, you know, last season, he did the scorpion tail, which made its way into the exhibit. They sort of decided at the very last minute that they were gonna add it. Cause the exhibit had pretty much been curated. And then they added that last.
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Laura Ingham
Oh, I'm glad they did.
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Cho Minardi
Yeah. Because it was quite impressive to see. And then some of his special commissions, what he did for Ariana Grande last year at the Oscars. That wonderful shoe dress, which relates right back to. Obviously speaks to the Wizard. Was it of Oz. And the tribute that she was doing. But it also speaks to the shoe hat that Schiaparelli designed, which was so major and is in the exhibit. All of those quirky, surrealist references that she used make their way back into his work. But it's not like a direct homage. It's much more kind of. It's very subtle.
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Laura Ingham
You can sort of feel that I got to know Daniel really well, mainly throughout Covid. He was, like, really present. We were doing our zoom calls directly onto. He was in the studio and Plass Fonda, and he would, like, talk through what he was working on at the time. And he was quite new to the house at that point. But he always sort of Evokes that spirit of Elsa and SCAP so authentically and that play on surrealism and everything that you've just. All those unreal references. I'm actually going this evening to have a look at the exhibition. I can't wait to see it.
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Cho Minardi
Oh, it's so fab. And what was great, too, it's interesting that you talk about the pandemic, but he talked a lot about what it was like coming out of the pandemic and those first dresses that he made and those first fashion statements that he made, because Gaga, who wore that fabulous dress for the inauguration of Obama at the time. And then there was that amazing dress that Bella wore.
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Laura Ingham
The long dress.
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Cho Minardi
The long dress, which he says is one of his favorite dresses of all time.
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Emily Elias
Yeah.
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Laura Ingham
Sort of inspired from that moment of crisis and then something so beautiful that he created from it. And I remember when we first saw that piece, I think it was probably on a Zoom preview. We couldn't believe that when you didn't, you were like, wow, this is so beautiful. It looks like obviously everything is. Resembles a jewel or a piece of jewelry. And then he was talking about the lungs and how central they were to everything that we had just been through and were going through at the time. And so I'm glad that it's part of the exhibition and that other people can see it as well, because I think one of my highlights in Paris is going into that showroom and really seeing his work up close.
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Cho Minardi
I think he came out of COVID with this instinct to bring beauty, and that was a very meaningful time in his and his life. So I think you totally nailed it, because that's exactly what he was saying.
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Laura Ingham
He's really built this world, hasn't he? Around, like, this dormant, sleeping brand. It's sort of unbelievable to see what he's pulled together in such a kind of a relatively short period of time, like all of those, like last night is testament to everything that he has done. And he is so thoughtful about everything that he produces and puts together. I love talking to him about how he puts together his collection, his inspiration, his, like, how many looks and then his photos on personalities and VIP and celebrity has been so intrinsic to his success. And he genuinely has the most incredible rapport with all of these women around him.
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Cho Minardi
He sure does. And guess what? They're all clamoring for him to do. I'm sure they're all clamoring for him to do dress them for the Met. And I asked him, and he was like, I don't want to Talk about it. I think he's under a lot of pressure. Oh, I mean, there have been a few big, big collabs that have. News of the big collabs that have dropped this week. So Willie Shavaria's collection for Zara dropped today, and I had a quick whiz through it. I was trying to figure out what I was gonna get. What do you. And there's also that big news about John Galliano, who is re authoring.
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Laura Ingham
I know the re authoring. I love that.
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Cho Minardi
Yeah, the re authoring, which I thought was very cool.
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Laura Ingham
Very John.
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Cho Minardi
Yeah, very John. Yeah. Tell us what you think about those two big pieces of fashion news that dropped this week.
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Laura Ingham
I know. Big news for Zara this week. I'm excited. I worked with John back in. Oh, I was going to say that
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Cho Minardi
in your days at Dior.
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Laura Ingham
At the very beginning when I started, he was creative director of Dior and I was working in the press office here in London for Dior, working through his studio via fax, which was kind of wonderful. I sort of wish I'd kept a lot of those handwritten faxes that we used to receive from him. And the studio asking us to source books and all sorts of things and archive and buy things back from Christie's. It's so wonderful. Such a. Such a fun time. I'm excited to see him in a completely new space. I know there's been a lot of chatter about this, but of course, all of his work celebrates vintage and archive. When he was at Margiela, he was buying back the most incredible archive pieces from all of the brands, all of the big brands who are competitors to Margiela. And he was taking them and he was deconstructing them, and then he was repurposing them and then creating these kind of unbelievable bespoke creations from them in his kind of recta period that he had at the brand. So for him to go back into all of the archives at Zara and to put his take on it, knowing how he works and what his process is like, which is so complex and so, like, he's such a cerebral thinker. So it's sort of wonderful to think of him in this very different environment and what he's going to take and what he's going to choose and how he's going to reauthor those pieces. And then for. I'm so happy for Willy as well. I mean, what a great collab. And, you know, I've always wanted to buy into those wide leg pants. So they're Certainly on my wish list to shop into today. And he as well, is also all about community. And, you know, Zara's about that. That's about, you know, we got to extend the fashion community. And I think that's a really positive thing for. So I'm intrigued to see how it plays out in. Me too.
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Cho Minardi
Me too.
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Laura Ingham
In the next couple of. In the next couple of months.
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Cho Minardi
I mean, there are also some other exciting news that is breaking today is that our dear friend, designer Christopher Kane, is going to be creative director at the House of Mulberry, which is so exciting, very exciting for the UK to have Christopher at the helm of another great heritage brand which hasn't for a long time shown ready to wear. And I think a bit of a resurgence on the accessory side. And I think it'll be so cool to see what he does. We've been wanting to see him make a comeback for so long.
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Laura Ingham
We really have. We've missed him. So, so excited to see him back and somewhere where there's so much potential, there's been. So, you know, obviously we've seen the kind of resurgence in all of those classic Mulberry bags recently. So it's an exciting time for him to be going in and to give that, you know, Christopher, like, subversive twist on his ready to wear in such a storied kind of heritage house. I'm sure his first stop will be their archives, to be honest as well. So we're gonna have to get that request in to follow that process.
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Cho Minardi
I know, I know. It's so true. It's so true. It's so funny. I ran into him having lunch at Chateau Voltaire and he did seem especially happy. So now we know why.
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Laura Ingham
Oh, that's nice.
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Cho Minardi
Yeah, it was so nice to get that email from him because, like, what fantastic news.
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Laura Ingham
Yeah, it really is great. I can't wait to see where he takes it in his first show. The countdown is on.
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Cho Minardi
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Dan Levy
I was seriously considering taking a beta blocker before this interview. I was getting. I was, like, feeling anxious. I haven't done things like this for a long time.
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Emily Elias
You're with an anxious crew.
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Dan Levy
Great. We can just channel that. We'll hopefully just neutralize each other.
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Emily Elias
No, it'll be great.
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Alex De Palma
Yeah. I would have taken one if I had never taken, but I've never taken one. And I didn't want to be, like, really zonked for this, but the first
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Dan Levy
time I ever took a beta blocker was like an hour and a half before hosting the Emmys.
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Emily Elias
Stop.
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Alex De Palma
And what made you decide that was the right time?
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Dan Levy
Desperation, I think. I was so nervous that I thought, well, it'll make for a great story if I just zonk out.
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Emily Elias
Totally.
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Dan Levy
And I think the nerves were actually stabilized by the beta blocker to the point where I still felt incredibly nervous the whole time.
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Emily Elias
Yeah. How could you not?
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Alex De Palma
Yeah. But also, you didn't seem like you were not James Franco with Anne Hathaway when he was really out of it.
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Dan Levy
No, fortunately, it was like it worked itself out. I was very happy with how it all turned out, but, like, you know, I spun the wheel of fortune a little bit and it worked out.
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Alex De Palma
Yeah. You're here to tell the tale.
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Dan Levy
I'm still here.
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Emily Elias
That's crazy.
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Dan Levy
Someone wants to talk to me, so that's good.
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Alex De Palma
We definitely do.
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Emily Elias
We're excited.
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Dan Levy
I'm so happy to be here.
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Emily Elias
Dan Levy, welcome to the Run Through. Thank you so much.
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Dan Levy
Thank you so much for having me.
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Emily Elias
Can you tell us a little bit about what you're wearing today just to kick things off? This is fabulous.
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Dan Levy
I am wearing Celine.
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Emily Elias
We love Michael Riders.
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Dan Levy
Michael Riders. Celine. Represent your old friends. I've known Michael for like 20 years.
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Emily Elias
Oh, my God.
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Dan Levy
And this is, like, a big moment for him, and I couldn't be happier.
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Alex De Palma
How did y' all meet?
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Dan Levy
We met through a mutual friend along, like, literally over 20 years ago. And I have, like, been in awe of him ever since. And just, you know, when you watch a friend, like, work their way to a place where circumstance and opportunity meet in this perfect synergy and they're right for it, and it's the moment and the time. It's that. And I couldn't be prouder. I think he's just doing such incredible work and it's like just clothes you want to wear.
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Alex De Palma
The office is, like, in a tizzy after every single one of his shows.
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Dan Levy
Every show is insane.
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Alex De Palma
The umbrellas to the fact, the way they.
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Cho Minardi
The shoes.
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Dan Levy
A stolen umbrella.
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Emily Elias
Oh, my God.
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Dan Levy
Good for show. I thought I was stealing napkins.
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Emily Elias
Yes, I would.
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Dan Levy
I was, like, fanning out. I couldn't believe it was actually happening.
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Alex De Palma
How do you steal an umbrella?
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Emily Elias
They're so big.
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Dan Levy
Well, they gave it to me and I just never returned it.
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Alex De Palma
You're like, it's yellow.
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Dan Levy
And sometimes I wear it down the street and hope that people notice.
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Emily Elias
Oh, this whole thing.
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Dan Levy
Oh, this OG Michael Ryder Celine umbrella from the show that was expected to be returned.
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Emily Elias
Ain't no thank.
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Dan Levy
I have it good.
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Alex De Palma
Honestly, I wish you had taken a dozen of them.
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Emily Elias
This is great.
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Dan Levy
They were all good. I couldn't figure out which one that was the problem.
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Emily Elias
Oh, my God.
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Alex De Palma
Amazing. Okay, so we're here today to talk about big mistakes. Your new show. Yeah, it was such an entertaining watch. I watched it this weekend. My entire family was giggling while we were watching it. Yes. At different points too. So I feel like you were hitting a lot of different.
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Dan Levy
We love that.
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Laura Ingham
Yeah.
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Alex De Palma
I heard, though it's inspired by real life events somewhat.
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Dan Levy
Yeah. Well, like making a TV show, it's hard, but it's committing to an idea that you feel excited by. To tell in a long form format is an intense thing. And I have a very irrational fear of being blackmailed into organized crime. I don't know where it comes from. I would never find myself ever in my life in any situation that would lend itself to that kind of opportunity. But I thought, I think this could be, like, a funny thing to write. Mainly because I think if I were to find myself in that situation, I would be instantly murdered.
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Emily Elias
Yeah, me too.
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Dan Levy
Deeply, deeply incapable in the face of any kind of criminal operation or like, high stress situation. So, yeah, and I called up Rachel Sennott, who, you know, in my head I was like, she also seems like not someone a criminal organization would necessarily like, recruit, put their trust in. In a good way. That's a compliment. And we just started to like, brainstorm what that could look like and the rest is history.
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Cho Minardi
Yeah.
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Emily Elias
I heard that you and Rachel wrote the pilot in one single day.
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Dan Levy
Yeah. We had outlined for months, but like the actual writing of the pilot, we sat down in the morning and we finished the 32 pages by the end of the day. I'd never had that kind of experience writing with anyone before where it was. It just worked. And we really kind of. We come from two different schools of comedy, but there is overlap in the grounded nature of it. I think I'd always really admired her work and I feel like she has such a singular voice in the comedy space. And then we work together on the Idol and I'm Canadian, so I'm not really one to reach out to people because I constantly am. Am like questioning my worth and value in relation to other people. But this was a situation where I felt like, I think it's a brother and sister comedy. I really wanted the female perspective to feel real coming from a place of experience. And I just felt like she had such an amazing sensibility to lend itself to our dynamic. So I asked and kind of pitched her the premise and she loved it. And we worked for like six months together on it.
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Emily Elias
Rachel is having a big moment herself with I love la. Were you to guest star on the show, who would you want to play?
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Dan Levy
I don't think I'm like, cool enough to be on that show.
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Emily Elias
Please don't.
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Dan Levy
I know I'm not saying that to be self deprecating. Listen, I like clothes, but I don't. I don't know. I would be like an anxious boss.
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Emily Elias
Okay.
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Dan Levy
Like a neurotic agent. I don't know. I'm like caricaturing myself at this point. I'm like, what are the scripts I get? Anxious friend. Anxious co worker. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I'm so happy for her.
- [26:47]
Alex De Palma
I want to go back to Nikki for a second.
- [26:50]
Dan Levy
Yeah.
- [26:50]
Alex De Palma
He is a gay pastor. It's a very cool. I grew up in Texas, so I was immediately charmed by the character because of a lot of the like, religious background, whatever. But I'm curious, where did your inspiration for him come from and do you have any, like, relationship with spirit? Yeah. Anything that you are drawing from? I know you're a Leo. Yeah, I'm a Leo too.
- [27:14]
Laura Ingham
Leo.
- [27:14]
Dan Levy
Scorpio rising. Double Leo. Scorpio Rising.
- [27:17]
Emily Elias
Hell who is crazy?
- [27:19]
Alex De Palma
Hell,
- [27:22]
Emily Elias
My God.
- [27:23]
Dan Levy
I really wanted to tell the story of a character that was very far from David Rose, who was so, like, where's his was so reactive to, like, any kind of stimuli and to play a character that was slightly more repressed and, like, oppressed by his circumstances felt really interesting and very different. But I really wanted to honor it, and I didn't want his faith to ever be the butt of a joke. So we had a consultant who was a gay pastor who worked with us through that whole thing to make sure that we were respecting the religious side of this. I never wanted that to be reduced in any way. So, yeah, it was like, it turned out to be a really interesting journey to go on. And, like, I'm of a two faith background. So in Schitt's Creek, we were like a Jewish family. And in this, we're kind of Italian. I'm sort of a Presbyterian.
- [28:23]
Laura Ingham
Yes, yes.
- [28:24]
Dan Levy
Denomination. On big mistakes. But yeah, it's interesting to kind of explore a completely different area. I love that.
- [28:31]
Laura Ingham
Yeah.
- [28:32]
Alex De Palma
Another side of Nikki. I want to ask. I don't want to get too personal, but have you ever stolen anything? I stole an Almond Joy from a 711 when I was like, seven.
- [28:40]
Dan Levy
Okay.
- [28:40]
Alex De Palma
Oh, my God.
- [28:41]
Dan Levy
Were you caught?
- [28:42]
Alex De Palma
Yes. My father caught me, like, walking to the car. Yeah. And I had to take a break.
- [28:46]
Dan Levy
Was it that childish naivety of, like, I didn't know what I'm doing, I just grabbed something and left? Or did you have criminal intent?
- [28:54]
Alex De Palma
No, I don't think I had criminal intent. I think I had hungry intent and was like, I want this coconut. We just wanted to eat that coconut. I just wanted to eat it and wasn't really thinking about what I was up to.
- [29:04]
Dan Levy
I consciously stole a pair of sunglasses from a gas station on a school trip to Quebec City.
- [29:11]
Emily Elias
How old were you?
- [29:12]
Dan Levy
I was, I want to say 11 or 12, I thought.
- [29:15]
Alex De Palma
Were they cool?
- [29:17]
Dan Levy
They were sort of a very cheap spin on an Oakley.
- [29:21]
Emily Elias
Totally.
- [29:23]
Dan Levy
And I've thought about that crime every day since.
- [29:26]
Emily Elias
Well, that's the blackmail that you're concerned about.
- [29:28]
Laura Ingham
Yeah, it's the emotional.
- [29:30]
Emily Elias
I'm glad you're getting it off your chest.
- [29:31]
Dan Levy
Yeah. And you know what? I'm sorry. And if I ever go back to Quebec City, I will drop off 7.99.
- [29:37]
Laura Ingham
Have you?
- [29:38]
Emily Elias
Well, inflation, I'm sure is.
- [29:39]
Dan Levy
That's right. It's 49.99.
- [29:41]
Emily Elias
Sorry. Kind of in the same vein of spirituality. I saw online that you are into tarot cards or you get your tarot read Sometimes. Why are you laughing?
- [29:51]
Dan Levy
No, no, no, I know. Okay. Yes, keep going.
- [29:54]
Emily Elias
Oh, okay. Well, I saw that you work with Trevor Ballin, who is very big in the.
- [29:59]
Dan Levy
So Trevor.
- [29:59]
Emily Elias
Okay.
- [30:00]
Dan Levy
Trevor is the person who, 20 plus years ago, introduced me to Michael.
- [30:04]
Emily Elias
Incredible.
- [30:05]
Laura Ingham
Oh, cool.
- [30:06]
Dan Levy
Trevor is my brother and has been one of my all time closest friends for many, many, many years. And he is an extraordinary card reader. And I can't believe I'm giving him this press right now, but he is not a professional card reader. He is a friend who has had a lifelong love, admiration, and study of tarot, which makes him a very good. I mean, I don't know how you become a professional card reader. I guess you just decide. Anyway, no offense to professional card readers. Not quite sure what you have to do to legitimize yourself in that way. But he would. Every Sunday, he used to live in New York before moving to Paris, he would read Friends. And so the web of friends kind of grew because, you know, he would read me and then I would recommend a friend and a friend would recommend a friend. And it sort of became this, like, little community of people who sort of would, on a Sunday, go over to his apartment. It's always out of his apartment, which is crazy. Cause I guess some of the people he's read at this point.
- [31:09]
Emily Elias
Yeah.
- [31:10]
Dan Levy
You know, and then when he read Jonathan Anderson's cards, I put Jonathan in touch with Trevor.
- [31:18]
Emily Elias
Stop. You're the.
- [31:19]
Dan Levy
I am the source.
- [31:21]
Emily Elias
Oh, my God.
- [31:21]
Dan Levy
I told Jonathan to go to Trevor. He then started to go to Trevor, like quite often.
- [31:28]
Laura Ingham
Oh, my God.
- [31:28]
Dan Levy
And has been going for quite some time. But I guess this one particular post blew up. He gained like 10,000 followers on Instagram over the Jonathan Post. Okay. He is now like a name in tarot. He's getting cold calls from, like, the craziest people.
- [31:48]
Emily Elias
Like who?
- [31:49]
Dan Levy
I can't name names. It's. I.
- [31:51]
Cho Minardi
Okay.
- [31:51]
Dan Levy
But like people, people, people. And I guess I'm sort of like. I just never want it to get to a point where I can't get my cards ready.
- [32:01]
Alex De Palma
Oh, yeah.
- [32:02]
Dan Levy
You know what I mean. He's getting busy. And that's annoying for me.
- [32:05]
Alex De Palma
Totally.
- [32:06]
Emily Elias
It feels like he should always hold a spot for you.
- [32:07]
Laura Ingham
He will.
- [32:08]
Alex De Palma
Congrats.
- [32:09]
Dan Levy
But what about me? That's right.
- [32:11]
Alex De Palma
Okay, back to now I want to go back to big mistakes. I know that you did a lot of the sourcing for Schitt's Creek for your own costuming when it came.
- [32:19]
Dan Levy
No, I did all the costuming. That's like, I didn't costume, Schitt's Creek. But I bought the fashioning.
- [32:24]
Alex De Palma
The fashion, because it's not really costume. So what was the approach like for big mistakes? Were you doing the same thing?
- [32:31]
Dan Levy
Very different.
- [32:31]
Alex De Palma
Okay, Tommy.
- [32:32]
Dan Levy
Very different. Well, shits. We didn't have any money, and. And I really needed this wealthy fam. Like, the roses came from money. I wanted people at home who paid attention to fashion to see it realized on the screen. So over the course of a season, I would be shopping all year round. Consignment, secondhand ebay. Ukes.
- [33:01]
Emily Elias
Wow.
- [33:01]
Dan Levy
Early days of yukes, when you could find, like, archival stuff on there for relatively cheap. Vestier. Real. Real. I found, like, unbelievable grails on all of those sites. But I remember at the time, I was just more involved ultimately. And I remember there's a scene in Schitt's Creek where I'm in a field with a pitchfork.
- [33:24]
Emily Elias
I love this.
- [33:25]
Dan Levy
And I'm in a Helmut Lang horsehair, mohawked, cashmere, hooded, like, sweatshirt. And I had it in my mind long before because there was some editorial and some maybe, like, early days of I D or the face or something. Elijah Wood, I think, wore that Mohawk helmet hoodie. And I couldn't get it out of my mind. I wanted it desperately. I never had the money to buy it. So when we had a little bit of budget for Schitts, I was like, oh, that hooded sweatshirt would be really good for this particular scene. Anyway, I ended up finding it.
- [34:01]
Alex De Palma
Where is it now?
- [34:02]
Dan Levy
I own it.
- [34:02]
Cho Minardi
Oh, good.
- [34:03]
Alex De Palma
I'm glad.
- [34:04]
Dan Levy
We had to sell a lot of the costumes for the show because we
- [34:06]
Emily Elias
had to keep replenishing budget.
- [34:09]
Dan Levy
Yeah, but that was fun. And, like, in this, it was very different because we didn't have to source designer clothing.
- [34:16]
Alex De Palma
And he's a man of the cloth wearing normal cloth.
- [34:18]
Dan Levy
And Courtney Wheeler, who's our incredible costume designer on this, came from the bear. And I loved all the work that she was doing on the bear. Like, really personalized, grounded, but singular and interesting choices that were made. But it was all about, like, New Jersey normcore. And my approach to costuming is always, like, I would love. There's no bigger compliment than having someone dress as you for Halloween. Okay, love. And we were very lucky in the shits world, where, like, every character had such a distinct aesthetic that it lent itself very sort of easily to the Halloween culture. So this one was a little bit different. But I still, in the back of my mind was like, I use Halloween as, like, a North Star in the sense that you do want an audience to come to recognize these characters aesthetic along with who they are as people. So in working with Courtney on the show, it was like, what are the little swerves we could give everybody to make their aesthetic, which is very normal, feel distinct in some way. So with my character we played with like oversized belts. So I always kind of had these like derpy pants and like with like a really big belt that like hangs off the side.
- [35:42]
Emily Elias
And like I did notice that and I was like, that's funny.
- [35:44]
Dan Levy
Yeah. And I think that's what he clearly likes it. Like my character loves a little like flappy belt thing and like a billowy sort of blousy cotton shirt with like a big. I don't know what he was thinking about, but there is like a JFK Jr ish vibe. Even though he himself has no personal style whatsoever. But in that sense he does. So it was like twisting the normcore world into something that felt a little more singular, if that made any sense.
- [36:18]
Alex De Palma
Um, speaking of fashion though, we like to ask everyone, what's your first like real formative fashion memory?
- [36:24]
Dan Levy
I believe that my love of fashion stems from not being allowed to wear it as a kid. So my like, love my parents. They were very supportive. They did not buy me clothes growing up. Fine.
- [36:43]
Emily Elias
So where were you shopping?
- [36:44]
Dan Levy
Growing? Well, every school year I think I was taken to like the Gap.
- [36:49]
Emily Elias
Totally.
- [36:50]
Dan Levy
And Club Monaco. Yes, Club Monaco.
- [36:52]
Alex De Palma
Club Monaco is like so mature.
- [36:53]
Emily Elias
Club Monaco, you're like a seven year old.
- [36:55]
Dan Levy
First of all, I believe Club Monaco started in Canada and it was fashion. Okay, Club Monaco was in Canada. Like girls in high school would wear Club Monaco totes as backpacks.
- [37:09]
Emily Elias
Totally.
- [37:10]
Dan Levy
So all the school bags were in a white or black Club Monaco tote. I of course was taken into these places, like reaching for sweaters with stripes on them. Constantly told no. And then we would buy like one pair of pants and one sweater. Great. Like restraint. There was a lust. Like the lust for love.
- [37:33]
Emily Elias
I was so.
- [37:35]
Dan Levy
And I think I was too young to like explain to my family, like this is how I think I can express myself. Like I'm a closeted kid. I don't know how to express myself. But clothing felt like this world of self expression that I never was really able to get my hands on until I was in high school. And then I worked at the Gap. Well, I didn't work at the Gap. I worked at Gap Kids. Cause I was too scared of running into anyone I knew. So if you dealt with young people or moms, that I could handle. But people from my high school.
- [38:10]
Alex De Palma
What was the playlist like at Gap Kids? Because, you know the Gap playlist, it
- [38:13]
Dan Levy
was like New Radicals, I think was on there. There was a lot of like Nelly Furtado.
- [38:18]
Emily Elias
The kids love it.
- [38:19]
Alex De Palma
Do you fold really well still?
- [38:20]
Dan Levy
I do, yeah.
- [38:21]
Cho Minardi
Okay.
- [38:21]
Alex De Palma
God, I'm jealous of that.
- [38:22]
Dan Levy
And I can do it with, with or without the board.
- [38:24]
Emily Elias
Oh, the board is so great.
- [38:26]
Dan Levy
The board was major.
- [38:27]
Emily Elias
Any anyone who's worked retail knows the board loves the board.
- [38:30]
Dan Levy
And I was a top seller of the summer. So I got a $50 gift card.
- [38:34]
Emily Elias
Oh, and what did you spend it on?
- [38:36]
Dan Levy
I bought a chunky cranberry turtleneck.
- [38:39]
Emily Elias
Oh, cute.
- [38:40]
Dan Levy
Yeah. That did not look good on me. Cause I don't have much of a neck. So it was just like I invested the money. I like took my $50 gift card and the like $75 I made for like three weeks of work and bought the sweater and really tried to make it work. And I feel like when we were younger, you really try for things. Like there were trends that now I have the wherewithal to know, like don't. But back then I didn't have that.
- [39:08]
Emily Elias
Yeah.
- [39:08]
Dan Levy
So I wore that cranberry turtleneck with some boot cut denim.
- [39:13]
Alex De Palma
I bet you looked really cute.
- [39:14]
Dan Levy
And like a simple. Do you remember simple shoes? You guys are so much younger than me.
- [39:18]
Cho Minardi
I know, but.
- [39:19]
Dan Levy
Well, there was a brand. I think it was a skate brand called Simple Period. And they had a shoe that I somehow like a big skateboarder. Chunky. No, it wasn't Chunky Chunky. It was half wear. It was like a Stan Smith meets a. Like a van.
- [39:33]
Alex De Palma
Okay, got it. Do you own a lot of glasses? I'm curious, like how you. How many do you own? Do you collect them and how do you choose? How do you pick today's.
- [39:42]
Dan Levy
It's a great question. I will like sample.
- [39:47]
Alex De Palma
Okay.
- [39:47]
Emily Elias
What are these today? Can you tell us about the glasses?
- [39:49]
Dan Levy
I just got them in Japan. Oh, I just got back from Tokyo like two days ago.
- [39:56]
Emily Elias
Are you horrifically jet lagged?
- [39:57]
Dan Levy
Of course. And ran these to Digna. I bought them in a little. My favorite glasses store in Japan called Globe Specs. And Globe Specs also has a vintage section in some of their stores that do like dead stock turn of the century, like Toulouse Lautrec.
- [40:17]
Emily Elias
Oh my God.
- [40:18]
Alex De Palma
Have you been to fabulous fannies in East Village?
- [40:21]
Dan Levy
Of course.
- [40:21]
Alex De Palma
Okay. I was gonna say I have a vintage good deck.
- [40:24]
Dan Levy
Yeah, no, I'm all over it.
- [40:25]
Alex De Palma
Dead stock glasses.
- [40:26]
Dan Levy
I probably have 100 plus. What do you have optical and then 75ish sunglasses.
- [40:36]
Alex De Palma
How are you storing all of these?
- [40:38]
Dan Levy
I have cases, custom cases that are like. My friend turned me onto them. My friend Elena, who used to work with me at my glasses company, sourced them. They were shockingly cheap for what it is, but you could customize them. And they're about two and a half feet tall, drawers with multiple sections in them. You can customize the fake skin. So it'd be like fake croc, fake ostrich, fake whatever. So I have these, like beautiful fake croc cases.
- [41:08]
Alex De Palma
Like an apothecary.
- [41:10]
Cho Minardi
That's right.
- [41:10]
Dan Levy
That store like a hundred frames each, and that's where I keep them. And then I have travel cases that store about four to eight frames that I brought with me.
- [41:22]
Alex De Palma
Okay. I was gonna say, on your trip to Japan, how many glasses are you taking with me?
- [41:25]
Dan Levy
I brought about eight sunglasses and eight optical.
- [41:29]
Cho Minardi
Oh, wow.
- [41:30]
Alex De Palma
I gotta step up my game.
- [41:32]
Emily Elias
So we have discussed that you are good friends with Jonathan Anderson and you introduced him to. Or you were introduced. Yeah. You introduced him to the tarot card reader. You went to the Met gala with him when he was at Loewe. You were at the Dior show. Can you tell us a little bit about your relationship and what to kind of watch his trajectory?
- [41:48]
Dan Levy
Recently, I have been a fan of Jonathan's from his very first collection for jw.
- [41:57]
Emily Elias
Wow.
- [41:58]
Dan Levy
It's funny because we didn't really meet until six years ago. I think he watched Schittz and he, I think, posted about it on Instagram. And I remember like, oh, my God. Seeing it and. And again, the Canadian in me would never think to reach out to him because, I mean, who am I? And so when I saw that, I responded to it and we started texting.
- [42:26]
Alex De Palma
Did you give an emoji or you said something?
- [42:27]
Dan Levy
No, I think I said something. But the story with Jonathan was many, many years ago. I used to be a VJ on mtv. Yeah. In Canada.
- [42:38]
Emily Elias
Her awesome Canada.
- [42:39]
Dan Levy
And here actually love that. Oh, yeah. Hosted the Hills after show, baby.
- [42:43]
Emily Elias
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- [42:45]
Dan Levy
It was me and Lauren Conrad at the Hollywood Roosevelt doing the finale of every Hills season.
- [42:52]
Alex De Palma
Oh, my God.
- [42:53]
Dan Levy
Wild Other Life.
- [42:55]
Alex De Palma
Do you miss it at all?
- [42:56]
Dan Levy
No.
- [42:56]
Alex De Palma
Okay, keep going.
- [42:57]
Dan Levy
No offense to the Hills, but, like, that was never my lane.
- [43:00]
Alex De Palma
Yes.
- [43:00]
Dan Levy
And I now am able to rewatch the show with a different love. But at the time, yeah, it was never my thing, but I had a great time. But I had come into a little tiny bit of money being on mtv, saw these shoes somehow through a Blog spot or something way back when of Jonathan's JW collection. And he made these, like. It was like a camper boot that had studs all over it and flowers, like, woven into it. And I thought, like, I have to have that. And I went on an Internet deep dive. This was many years ago where it was almost impossible to find fashion if you weren't living in New York City or Paris or whatever. I was in Toronto, Canada. God bless. But, like, at the time, they didn't have. You couldn't get your hands on clothes. I found the lncc website. They had at the time, one pair of these shoes. Yellow cap, toe studded, chunky boots that, like, it was a thing. And I bought them.
- [44:13]
Alex De Palma
Were they your size or you just bought them no matter what?
- [44:15]
Dan Levy
I think they were a size too big.
- [44:16]
Emily Elias
Okay, okay.
- [44:17]
Chelsea Daniel
But I bought them never.
- [44:18]
Dan Levy
I could wear them. I could put an insole in and it was fine. But I ended up having dinner with Jonathan. The very first time we had dinner, I told him this story of finding those shoes. And he was like, you know, I feel like I've heard your name. I heard your name. Because back then people weren't buying those shoes on Mass. They were like. It was a very small production order. And he, I guess, had some idea of like, who owns.
- [44:44]
Emily Elias
He's like, who the hell's Dan Lesley?
- [44:45]
Alex De Palma
Exactly.
- [44:46]
Dan Levy
Like in Toronto. What?
- [44:49]
Alex De Palma
The only pair in all of Canada.
- [44:50]
Dan Levy
Exactly. And funnily enough, the only photo I have of myself in those shoes. I wore the shoes with a pair of jeans and a Phoebe Filo for Celine gray turtleneck that Michael had gotten for me because Michael was working under Phoebe at Celine at the time.
- [45:08]
Laura Ingham
Oh, my God.
- [45:09]
Dan Levy
I went to Paris. He brought me into the Celine atelier, atelier and hooked me up with this sweater. And I was like, this is fashion.
- [45:18]
Emily Elias
That's fashion.
- [45:19]
Dan Levy
It's just wearing designer things that the two designer pieces I had ever bought at the time, wearing them together, didn't go. But the nostalgia of seeing that photo and what it means now. And I was very lucky, particularly during the Loewe years. I collaborated with him on this short film that I made with Aubrey Plaza. And that was really fun. I pitched him that idea over dinner of a spelling bee. And he was like, we're doing it. Let's get it done. And then I, of course, thought nothing of it. And literally, like a month later, Loewe called and was like, we want to make this spelling bee Dan has an idea for. And I thought, well, I better, like, figure it Out.
- [45:59]
Alex De Palma
He seems so game to play, though, across all, like, creative mediums. I was at the couture show and there were all these vases that were being referenced and that was really cool.
- [46:08]
Dan Levy
I feel like Magdalena Dundo.
- [46:10]
Alex De Palma
Yes. Like, interest is so creative period. Like, it's creative pursuits across the board. And I think that that's what, like, makes me very excited about filming.
- [46:19]
Dan Levy
I think he's, like a very curious person and I don't think he takes himself too seriously when it comes to his work. And I think that's what I really respond to. He has fun with the job and I love. I love that. I love humor in the workplace and as do we.
- [46:37]
Alex De Palma
Yes, we be giggling all day.
- [46:43]
Emily Elias
The run through will be back in just a moment.
- [46:55]
Cho Minardi
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- [48:13]
Alex De Palma
So I am a beauty editor, so I would be remiss if I did not ask you, are you into skincare? Absolutely.
- [48:18]
Dan Levy
Are you into wellness?
- [48:19]
Alex De Palma
Absolutely. I wanna talk about your eyebrows. What's your relation? You have a historical family of eyebrows.
- [48:26]
Dan Levy
My eyebrows are graying and I'm at a crossroads.
- [48:29]
Alex De Palma
No, I think that's sexy.
- [48:30]
Dan Levy
Interesting.
- [48:30]
Alex De Palma
Yeah.
- [48:31]
Dan Levy
I couldn't tell whether I should color them.
- [48:33]
Alex De Palma
No. A couple gentlemen went to awards ceremonies with clearly dyed eyebrows this season and I felt like it was quite a shock to me.
- [48:41]
Dan Levy
Well, the.
- [48:42]
Chelsea Daniel
That's.
- [48:42]
Dan Levy
Yeah. And I have a lot of real estate to color if I were to do that. So it would have to be a very subtle thing. I trim my eyebrows. That's all I do.
- [48:51]
Alex De Palma
Okay.
- [48:53]
Dan Levy
I've filled them in from time to time. But yeah, I'm very precious. About what? I mean, I'm not as precious as my. My dad is very precious about his eyes.
- [49:02]
Alex De Palma
Okay. He doesn't do anything. He's never.
- [49:04]
Dan Levy
I think he will trim the uni moment though.
- [49:09]
Alex De Palma
Unis are cool too.
- [49:10]
Dan Levy
I think if he and I were to let our eyebrows really run wild, it would be shocking.
- [49:16]
Alex De Palma
Okay. It's eyebrows.
- [49:17]
Dan Levy
I do think we are doing people a favor.
- [49:20]
Emily Elias
You're also reuniting with Aubrey Plaza soon for the film Animal Friends. What was it like? Have you guys worked together beyond the Loewe spelling game?
- [49:29]
Dan Levy
No, I'm friends. Like Aubrey's been a friend for a while and funnily enough, when we shot but the Loewe film, two and a half minutes with wigs and mustaches, she was telling me that she was heading to Bulgaria to shoot this movie.
- [49:45]
Emily Elias
Oh my God.
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Dan Levy
And I at the time was like, have fun in Bulgaria. And then kid you, not a week later I got a call to do the film.
- [49:55]
Emily Elias
Oh my God.
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Dan Levy
And I guess Vince Vaughn was originally supposed to do it and he dropped out for some reason and naturally someone called him. Yeah.
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Emily Elias
Oddly, I mean, you guys are.
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Dan Levy
And at the time. Uh huh. We're very similar types.
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Alex De Palma
Yeah.
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Dan Levy
And at the time I remember feeling like, well, how is this gonna work? And they were like, oh, don't worry. Aubrey's playing Vince's part and you're playing her part. And I was like, right, so none of this has to do with someone thinking that I'm a Vince Vaughn type.
- [50:26]
Emily Elias
Aubrey Plaza is a Vince Vaughn.
- [50:27]
Dan Levy
Yeah, Aubrey Plaza is a Vince Vaughn
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Emily Elias
and you're an Aubrey Plaza.
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Dan Levy
That's right. And. And I got the call. It was a quick turnaround. They were like, I think I got the call on a Thursday. And they were like, can you be in Bulgaria on Monday?
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Emily Elias
Yeah, I guess.
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Alex De Palma
What was that flight? Is there a direct? No.
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Emily Elias
Okay.
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Dan Levy
Of course not.
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Alex De Palma
Yeah, I didn't think so.
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Dan Levy
I think I connected in like Dusseldorf or something. I don't even know. I blanked out. I woke up in a Bulgarian airport and we were there for like a couple months.
- [50:53]
Emily Elias
Oh my God.
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Cho Minardi
Oh yeah.
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Emily Elias
So you're like living it up in Bulgaria.
- [50:57]
Alex De Palma
You are Bulgarian.
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Dan Levy
How about this? Just setting the table for you. It's me, Aubrey Plaza, and Addison Rae in Bulgaria working out in a Bulgarian hotel gym every morning, just to pass the time. Addison and I got very close to the.
- [51:17]
Laura Ingham
What people do in prison when they were.
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Dan Levy
Yeah, she was showing me, like, her workout videos. Oh, my God. We were doing, like, Pilates together.
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Alex De Palma
Did you dance? A little.
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Dan Levy
We went to, like, drag shows together. There's very incriminating video footage of all Back to Blackmail Aubrey that I have on my phone from that night. I took Addison to a casino. I taught them how to play poker.
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Cho Minardi
Wow.
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Alex De Palma
What kind of poker do you play?
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Dan Levy
Like, I don't really like five card stuff.
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Alex De Palma
Okay. Yeah, I know how to play Texas hole and then the one.
- [51:47]
Dan Levy
Texas. Yeah, yeah. You know, like basic poker. And then we went to a casino and Addison got sat beside a professional poker player.
- [51:56]
Alex De Palma
Perfect.
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Emily Elias
Oh, my God. Who was this? Her first Pokemon.
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Dan Levy
Helped her win $1,000 at the poker table.
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Alex De Palma
She is charming.
- [52:03]
Dan Levy
And I lost, I think $150.
- [52:07]
Emily Elias
And I lost her sitting across the
- [52:08]
Dan Levy
table watching Addison play, like, poker with this very generous man. Anyway, it was a wild time. And the movie is absolutely. Oh, I'm excited. I don't know when it comes out. I don't know what is going on with it, but it'll come out eventually. She plays a cop, I think, and I play a park ranger chasing a miniature pony and a bear across America.
- [52:29]
Alex De Palma
Wait, across America? But you shot it in Bulgaria.
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Dan Levy
Uh huh.
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Alex De Palma
Okay.
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Emily Elias
Yes. Hollywood is not what it used to be.
- [52:34]
Dan Levy
A baby in Bulgaria for Colorado.
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Cho Minardi
Oh, yeah.
- [52:36]
Dan Levy
Bulgaria in the winter for Colorado in the summer.
- [52:38]
Emily Elias
Totally.
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Dan Levy
Just smoke a big old joint and go see the movie whenever it comes out because it is a wild time.
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Alex De Palma
Oh, I'm excited.
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Emily Elias
You know, we love to end these interviews by asking people their general culture diets, like, what are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to right now? How are you feeling your days?
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Dan Levy
I just got back from Japan. It's my favorite place in the world. I go every year. And I bought a bunch of beautiful ceramics there in Kyoto. In Kyoto, yes. And Tokyo.
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Alex De Palma
Oh, fast.
- [53:15]
Dan Levy
Some really amazing places. I got a very small place in London where I will be living for part of the year. And I bought some stuff to kind of put in my little place in London. Just some Japanese pots and a mattress on the floor, of course. And yeah, I went to a really great bookstore in Chelsea yesterday. I don't live in New York, but I'm here because the show was here and I just finished sort of wrapping up the season, so I've never lived in New York before. Oh, my gosh. And Normally when I'm in New York, Trevor, card reader, Michael designer were here and it would be like that was my New York and now they're in Paris just as I come to New York. So I'm kind of discovering it solo with a few friends that I've met here. But I went to a really great bookstore and found an Anne Carson book of poetry that I had never seen before. Don't know Anne Carson, she's a great poet. Autobiography of Red is my favorite long form poem. And yeah, I've just been like sort of squeezing the juice out of my time off.
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Alex De Palma
Do you like playlists? Like when you're walking around exploring New York, are you headphones in? Headphones out?
- [54:32]
Dan Levy
Headphones in always. Which is now that I say that I should be like we should be hearing the birds.
- [54:39]
Alex De Palma
I do like to have headphones in so no one speaks to me but nothing on so I can eavesdrop because people on the subway will have like really crazy conversations.
- [54:47]
Emily Elias
Yeah, they have those like settings on the AirPods now where you can like hear what other people are saying where it's like microphone.
- [54:53]
Dan Levy
Oh no, mine is crazy. Yeah, I was listening to the new James Blake.
- [54:57]
Emily Elias
Oh, I was listening to that this morning. Yeah.
- [55:00]
Dan Levy
Really, really beautiful. And also what I just discovered like about a year ago, the last time I was in Japan was Auto Shazam. Do you know about this? So Shazam has an option. You know how like you press the button on Shazam. If you press the button and hold the button, it just keeps going, it goes into Auto Shazam. Oh my God. So Japan has the most incredible bar culture. Yes, Record bars, listening bars. And so I had my phone on Auto Shazam my entire Japan trip. And I came home and like have been listening to this playlist of all of my adventures.
- [55:37]
Alex De Palma
And then it adds them up for you.
- [55:38]
Dan Levy
It adds them all up and turns them into a playlist and then you can export the playlist into like your various listening service. And so I've also been doing that.
- [55:50]
Alex De Palma
Are you into vinyl at all?
- [55:51]
Dan Levy
I am, but I don't have. Yeah, I have a record player at my house in la. It's a hefty And I inherited my parents record collection.
- [56:01]
Alex De Palma
Me too.
- [56:01]
Dan Levy
I love was they had great taste.
- [56:04]
Alex De Palma
My parents did too. But they like left too personal of notes where they'd be like we love
- [56:09]
Cho Minardi
to listen to this.
- [56:09]
Alex De Palma
When we met in college. Yeah, they left like sticky notes on all the records.
- [56:13]
Dan Levy
Oh wow.
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Alex De Palma
Yeah. And some of them I was like,
- [56:16]
Dan Levy
this is what we were listening to when we made you.
- [56:18]
Alex De Palma
Yeah, exactly. And I'm like James Taylor.
- [56:21]
Dan Levy
Steely Dan. What?
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Cho Minardi
Wow.
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Emily Elias
Well, Dan, thank you so much for coming on the show.
- [56:28]
Laura Ingham
This is so much fun.
- [56:29]
Dan Levy
Thanks for having me. What a blast. What a treat.
- [56:35]
Alex De Palma
That's our show for today. I wanted to let y' all know that the Run through is now on YouTube. Go like and subscribe. The Run through will be back next week.
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Laura Ingham
Bye.
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Chelsea Daniel
Bye.
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Cho Minardi
The Run through with Vogue is produced by Chelsea Daniel, Alex De Palma, and Alex John Burns, with help from Emily Elias. The show is engineered by Bran Bandy and mixed by Mike Kutchman.
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Emily Elias
Bye.
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Cho Minardi
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Chelsea Daniel
My first job in New York City was as a trend forecaster. I do trend forecasting still, and. And ebay is a part of that because I'll search for things that I'm seeing around, and it will end up directing me in places that I could have never anticipated. And one of the trends that I'm seeing these days is crafting things that are made by hand. And so playing with clothes and accessories to create something kind of distinctive for your wardrobe is a great way of doing it. And getting supplies off of ebay is my favorite thing for it. I'll get, like, maybe a pair of slippers that I'm wearing right now, and then cut them in a specific way, and then they're totally my own. And I feel like it's a great resource to create your own trends because then you can both feel like you're bringing something back to life. You're already, like, pulling it out of the ebay archives, and then you're also adjusting it so that it really expresses your own style, which is something that, you know, people really want right now whenever they are feeling, like, so algorithmic about the style that's being pushed to them. That doesn't have to be perfect. Things can have rough edges, and that sometimes makes them feel more special.
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Dan Levy
From prx.