How Tory Burch Built a Fashion Empire | PLUS Anok Yai is British Vogue’s Cover Star
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In a lively Saturday morning conversation at the Vogue Café in SoHo, designer and founder Tory Burch sat down with Nicole Phelps for a live recording of The Run-Through.
Burch shared stories of her extraordinary rise from a single storefront on Elizabeth Street in Nolita to 400 stores worldwide. She spoke candidly about navigating a very public divorce, the 2008 financial crisis, and the devastating toll of the pandemic, including losing a longtime colleague to COVID.
Burch also spoke about the Tory Burch Foundation, which she launched in 2009 to support women entrepreneurs through mentorship, community, and access to capital – a mission she said was central to her reason for starting the company in the first place.
For young people hoping to break into fashion, she borrowed advice she got from her parents: "Negativity is noise."
Plus: Anok Yai is British Vogue’s cover star!
The Run-Through with Vogue is your go-to podcast where fashion meets culture. Hosted by Chloe Malle, Head of Editorial Content, Vogue U.S.; Chioma Nnadi, Head of British Vogue; and Nicole Phelps, Director of Vogue Runway, each episode features the latest fashion news and exclusive designer and celebrity interviews.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a run through. I'm Cho Minardi and today Chloe is away in LA for the Dior Show at Lachma. |
| 0:11.1 | She sent us a very fun voice note that we'll share later. But now I'm in the London studio with my colleagues Riddiquet Seth and Laura Ingham. |
| 0:20.2 | Can you guys introduce yourselves |
| 0:22.2 | to our wonderful listeners, please? Yes, hi, I'm Riddika, the film and culture editor of British |
| 0:27.8 | Vogue. And hi, I'm Laura Ingham, the deputy director of the Global Fashion Network. Well, you guys |
| 0:34.2 | are pretty much regulars, but I thought it would be good to reintroduce yourselves. |
| 0:37.9 | On today's episode, our co-host, Nicole Phelps, is speaking to the fabulous Tori Birch for a live taping at the Vogue Cafe in New York ahead of the Met gala. |
| 0:48.2 | They talked about her career, her inspirations, the flats that she dressed Anderson Pack in for the Met and also gave advice to aspiring fashion |
| 0:56.1 | designers so stick around to hear that fabulous conversation but first our June cover is out and it is |
| 1:04.4 | of the beautiful anokyoi and I'm just so excited about it every time I look look at it, I just think about how beautiful it is. |
| 1:11.9 | It was styled by Kate Feelein and photographed by Raphael Pavarotti. And our dear Fumifetto, |
| 1:19.0 | our beauty and wellness director, did the interview. And it's quite an emotional read. It's |
| 1:23.8 | quite an emotional story. I really wanted her mother and father to be part of the shoot, |
| 1:30.5 | and so we were able to fly them over to Paris for this. So it was a really special moment, |
| 1:35.2 | and I understand that there were several tears on set from Anok, who really reveres her parents, |
| 1:41.0 | and there's a very sweet relationship between them and obviously she's had such an |
| 1:45.4 | intense year she revealed earlier in the year that she'd been undergoing treatment for a very serious |
| 1:51.7 | heart condition that she has and this is the first time that she's speaking since she revealed that |
| 1:58.2 | diagnosis. I have so many thoughts about it. But Laura, I know that you |
| 2:02.3 | worked on pulling looks and we talked a lot about the shoot in white. I had to be joyful. Can you |
| 2:08.6 | talk a bit about the fashion for this story? Yeah, I mean, it's so beautiful to see it in print. |
| 2:14.0 | The first issues just came and hit Choma's desk. It was so excited to see it because |
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