Inside the Vogue Closet with Virginia Smith | PLUS Ukrainian Designer Bevza Designing from Kiev
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.2 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Vogue’s Virginia Smith talks to Chloe and Chioma about creating some of the most iconic Vogue photo shoots, and what the Vogue fashion closet is really like. Also, Ukrainian designer Svetlana Bevza talks about continuing her business in Kyiv a year into the invasion.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Run Through. I'm Chloe Mal. |
| 0:03.5 | And I'm Cho Minardi. And we have a friend here in the studio with us today. |
| 0:07.6 | Virginia Smith of Vogue. She's the global head of fashion. |
| 0:11.4 | Virginia, this is very exciting. Welcome to The Run Through with Vogue. |
| 0:16.1 | Thank you, Chloe. Can you introduce yourself to us? |
| 0:19.5 | Yes, I'm Virginia Smith and then the global lead for fashion. |
| 0:23.6 | What does that mean? |
| 0:24.9 | Your guess is as good as mine, Eloy. |
| 0:26.3 | I basically sort of lead the global fashion network, which is a network of editors that work across Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Allure, Glamour, Teen Vogue, and we work globally |
| 0:41.5 | as a group of networks together. |
| 0:44.3 | AKA a lot of work. |
| 0:46.7 | I don't think a lot of people know how many territories we work with. |
| 0:50.4 | How many do you directly work with? |
| 0:52.2 | For Vogue, which is the largest fashion team, we work with a large group do you directly work with? For Vogue, which is those were the largest fashion |
| 0:55.0 | team, we work with a large group in the United States, a big group in the UK, and then we have |
| 1:00.7 | teams in Italy, France, Spain, Mexico, India, Taiwan, and Japan. Wow. Okay, I want to talk about some things that everyone's been thinking about this week, which is, I feel |
| 1:16.3 | like since the end of last week, everyone's been very ruffled about Law Roach's Instagram |
| 1:22.1 | announcement right after the Oscars that he is retiring. |
| 1:26.2 | I don't know Law. I'm a student of his work with Zendaya and others, |
| 1:31.4 | but what's your takeaway from this? Because then he also did a podcast interview with Lindsay |
| 1:35.5 | Peoples. Yeah. It was actually a really great interview and I watched it in bed on a Saturday morning |
| 1:41.8 | and I couldn't believe I watched the whole thing. But his story's so compelling. Yeah. And hearing him tell his story, obviously his, he's had |
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