Hey, everyone, it's Audie, and this is the assignment, and we're in the middle of what you would call, like, the playoffs of fashion.

So the Golden Globes and the Grammys, they kicked off the kind of red carpet competition.

The winter fashion week season is underway. There were shows in Milan and Paris, and then coming up in New York, that's in just a few days.

And then it all ends in May with Fashion Super Bowl, the Met Gala,

which is the kind of event that you can't buy your way into.

I mean, like you actually can, as it turns out,

because Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchez,

who are helping to sponsor that MetGala,

they've literally been ushered to the front rows in recent weeks.

And like, people have thoughts, y'all.

So who will the devil cozy up to to stay in Prada?

Stay with me.

Our guest today is CNN's senior style reporter, Rachel Tangian. Rachel, introduce yourself.

Of course.

My name is Rachel Tashin.

I joined CNN at the end of last year to cover fashion and style.

So fashion and style, my brain is about power. How do you see

the beat? It's very much about power. And it's increasingly about wealth. It's a lot about access.

But I would also say, you know, the reason why I say fashion and style is because I think of

style in some ways as the counterpoint to fashion, maybe in some ways the antidote because it's

much more about identity and self-expression. And I think we have those two sort of competing

interests really coming to a head in this fashion season that we're

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