In Her Shoes: Jenna Lyons

The Cut

New York Magazine

Personal Journals, Documentary, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

While president of J. Crew, Jenna Lyons was once labeled the “The Woman Who Dresses America.” But in 2017, she left the company and there’s been this question of what she’s going to do next. The answer: starting her own company called Lyons L.A.D. and hosting her own reality show Stylish with Jenna Lyons premiering December 3rd on HBO Max. Both showcasing what style, beauty and living could look like through the lens of Jenna Lyons. Izzy Grinspan, Deputy Style Editor for The Cut, talked to Jenna along with L.A.D.’s stylist Sarah Clary and chief of staff Kyle DeFord about trying to make the world a more stylish place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We make mistakes, but we come together and we talk about it and we try to get through it and we care enough to actually be like, whoa, we got to fix this.
0:07.8	And so I think like we do not have it all figured out.
0:10.0	We are human and like we're sensitive and it's hard.
0:13.3	This is like a really complicated tricky intimate weird time and like we're
0:19.4	fumbling through it sometimes and sometimes we're ace in the hole.
0:23.9	Welcome to In Her Shoes.
0:25.2	I'm a Zee Grinspan, deputy style editor at The Cut.
0:29.5	In this podcast, we talked to ambitious women
0:32.0	about how they've come this far and where they're going next.
0:37.2	Jenna Lyons was for many years the soul of Jay crew. She started at the company at the age of 21. It was her first
0:46.1	real job and she worked her way up until she was the executive creative director and
0:51.2	the president. She took what was considered, you know, like a solidly preppy mall
0:56.0	brand and by the time she was done it was so fun and cool that Michelle Obama was
1:01.0	wearing her clothes.
1:03.0	But in 2017, she left, and for a while it was a bit of a mystery.
1:07.8	What would Jenna Lyons do next?
1:10.3	Now we know.
1:11.5	On December 3rd, the show Stylish with Jenna Lyons will debut on HBO Max.
1:17.0	It's a competition reality show in which Jenna is trying to find a new person to join her styling team.
1:24.2	And it introduces us to her colleagues,
1:27.2	stylist Sarah Clary, and Kyle De Ford,
1:30.4	who is her chief of staff.
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