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The Treatment

Jim Moore: GQ

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jim Moore visits The Treatment to discuss men's fashion and his 35 year long career as Creative Director of GQ.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:03.2

Every week join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories,

0:09.1

from ISIS to the U.S. economy, to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having.

0:14.1

You can find Left, Right, and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:18.1

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:31.0

Welcome to the treatment.

0:33.7

Often we have guests who have done a number of things.

0:37.3

My guest today is one of the rare folks who has been at one place for 35 years.

0:41.4

He's celebrating his 35th anniversary at GQ and it's Jim Moore.

0:45.4

Thanks for being here so much.

0:47.6

Elvis, thank you so much.

0:48.7

It's an honor to be here with you.

0:49.9

You clearly haven't heard the show before, but that's okay.

0:52.7

And one of the reasons I want to have you here is just that my reading trip at GQ goes back to when I was in junior high and I subscribed.

1:02.8

And I remember in the early 70s, they sent a questionnaire with a quarter to tip your favorite newsboy with.

1:09.9

And I use that quarter to pay for

1:11.1

my subscription. That's incredible. I had no idea. We got to bring that back. But one of the things I've

1:17.6

I like it, what your tenure seems to suggest is that there is a consistent narrative to the

1:24.0

magazines of aesthetic. Would you agree with that?

1:28.3

I think there definitely is a GQ look.

1:30.3

Obviously, it changes, and, you know, the tides change over the years, especially when you

1:36.5

think of the three decades I've been there through.

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