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How Long Gone

889. - Aaron Levine

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Levine is a fashion designer/stylist known for working with brands like Abercrombie, Zara, and his great new line of his namesake. We spoke with him from his home in Ohio about "All my friends are leaving LA," Will Welch stepping down at GQ, balking at A&F's initial offer, doing drugs in college, the purging of trinkets, how showing bulge on main affects his inbox, you never have scaling issues if you never think about scaling, can we make shopping fun again? And media succession and retirement. instagram.com/aaronplevine twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

How long gone.

0:18.5

It's fucking clicking.

0:20.7

Chris Black coming to you from an overcast money-making Manhattan on this Tuesday.

0:26.9

People are slowly trickling back to work.

0:28.9

I thought Monday, you know, I thought January 5th would be the kickoff for kind of back to work.

0:33.6

But it seems like that might wait until next week.

0:36.2

Yeah, even some people that work with us. Yeah. You know what I mean? Susanna, Susanna. Well, I'm also, this is usually a day. I take off just in remembrance. Did something happen on this day? I don't remember it. Because, I mean, you might have remembered my outfit from that day. I kind of wore this big sort of animal-like hat and no shirt. Oh, that was your, that was your, um, your bison. It wasn't, it was, it was, your bison stole. It wasn't mink, I don't think. It wasn't fox either. No, that's, no, a bison stole is for a man. You get, you get my drift. Um, but yeah, january 6th to all those who celebrate all those

1:12.3

who storm uh aerial pink and i know it's the fifth anniversary it's been five years if somebody

1:18.7

said those two years ago i'd be like yeah that's crazy isn't i believe oh yeah i'd believe it well i'm i'm i've got

1:23.5

an amazing view of the um the the the sort of trials and tribulations of the the rest of

1:30.2

the Venezuelan president um i'm your pusha didn't think that's where this was going i thought

1:34.9

it was going to be a different guy playing basketball with a shirt off but i wish i'd much rather

1:38.7

look at that you've got eyeballs on the biggest new story on planet earth yes the biggest

1:43.4

news story on planet earth is happening on the biggest news story on planet Earth is happening

1:44.7

on my block and it's, I'm surrounded by cameramen and what I've noticed most and what I find

1:51.2

really interesting about news today. And this makes, you know, this makes sense, of course,

1:54.7

but I would say more than half of the people, I'm not clear on which outlets they're from that are here to cover that

2:01.9

story, are using iPhones and basically like an elevated ring light to do it. There's no,

2:08.9

like the idea of like the truck pulling up, and I know that still happens, but there's none of that

2:13.8

and this is the biggest story in the world. I mean, because the truck had the satellite for the live feed. And, you know, I'm sure Bari Weiss cut that budget over at CBS. Nobody's watching, you know, live news. It's all clips anyway. So why not get a 26-year-old intern with a ringlight and an iPhone orange 17 and just knock this shit out with their other intern you know what I mean

2:35.6

it's just going to live on the phone that's really what it is because I'm looking at people I'm like

2:39.6

oh maybe this guy because I saw like a a fat sort of like safty brothers character type walking down

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