JFK & Jackie | The Political Runway | 58
Even the Rich
Wondery
4.3 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A lot of people dismiss fashion as superficial and unimportant. But fashion is a language, and savvy politicians know how to speak it. This week, Aricia and Brooke talk to fashion and culture critics Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez (Tom and Lorenzo) about why Joe Biden’s suits are suddenly a little bit tighter, what Nancy Pelosi’s color choices are trying to tell us, and why Michelle Obama dressed just like Jackie O. in her first year as FLOTUS.
To read TLo’s writing on style, follow this link: https://tomandlorenzo.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. From Wundery I'm A Riesha Skidmore Williams and I'm Brooke Sifrin and this is even the rich over the last three |
| 0:26.5 | episodes we followed JFK and Jackie through their whirlwind political rise and |
| 0:31.0 | their tumultuous marriage. |
| 0:32.8 | We even talked a little bit about Jackie's second life as a successful book editor. |
| 0:37.2 | But what we didn't talk about was Jackie's cultural impact. |
| 0:40.5 | Despite being the first lady for less than one term, she completely changed |
| 0:44.3 | American fashion. Absolutely, she's still iconic. I mean even Kim Kardashian dressed up |
| 0:49.5 | as her for a cover of interview magazine. Yeah and she wore Jackie's watch when she met with President Trump to plead for Alice Johnson's |
| 0:55.9 | clemency. |
| 0:56.9 | I heard it cost her $400,000 at auction. |
| 1:00.1 | Wild. |
| 1:01.6 | I mean, Jackie Kennedy's style endured for so long that she's still influencing our influencers. |
| 1:07.1 | So we wanted to take some time to look back on how she became such an important figure in American |
| 1:11.8 | fashion. I mean, mean look we had to. Tom Fitzgerald |
| 1:15.6 | and Lorenzo Marquez have been covering political style for years now. So they're |
| 1:19.8 | joining us today to talk about Jackie's best looks, how fashion works as a language, and |
| 1:24.8 | why men can get away with such boring suits. |
| 1:27.8 | Now Tom and Lorenzo are the founders and cultural critics behind the fashion blog that bears |
| 1:32.0 | their names. They're also the authors of that bears their names. |
| 1:32.8 | They're also the authors of two books on celebrity fashion in queer history |
| 1:36.7 | and the hosts of the Pop Style Opinion Fest podcast. |
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