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The Laverne Cox Show

Diary: Where Fashion Meets Art

The Laverne Cox Show

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Society & Culture

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Laverne is a full-on fashionista and shares all the things that excite her most about collecting vintage pieces from her favorite designers.

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

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Oh yeah.

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Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,

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0:19.3

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their

0:22.6

flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start

0:28.4

listening. Terms apply. Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland audio in partnership

0:36.0

with IHeart Radio.

0:42.3

Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show.

0:44.6

My name is Laverne Cox.

0:53.1

I started thrift store shopping when I was in middle school.

0:55.0

I remember I used to wear lab coats. I, girl, I mean, it was probably a mess, but it was a way to express myself creatively.

1:03.0

And thrifting and vintage shopping was something I did through high school, college, and after college because it was affordable.

1:16.1

And then when I got the job of being red carpet hose for E in 2021, I was like, oh, I have to step up my fashion pussy.

1:23.9

To paraphrase T.S. Madison and also Nicky Minaj to step my pussy up. And I did that in

1:30.4

relationship to my stylist and we were like trying to really like just up the ante in terms of fashion.

1:35.2

But also in 2019, well before I was a red carpet host, I started collecting vintage Terry Mugler.

1:41.9

So obsessed with Mugler since I saw the Too Funky video in 1992.

1:48.0

If you don't know the too funky video, go to YouTube and watch it. But Manfred Terry Muglayer, the late

1:53.2

Trier, he passed away just a few years ago, directed that video. It's a George Michael song.

1:58.7

And all the fashions in the video are Mugler and the

2:02.9

cowboy look that Connie Fleming wears is from spring 1992, Le Cowboy. Anyway, when I became

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