Kristin Scott Thomas Calls Erdem With Her Fashion Emergencies
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Earlier this week, designer Erdem Moralioglu debuted his latest collection in London at his 20th anniversary show. Titled “The Imaginary Conversation” this show was less a retrospective (a term he shied away from) and more an embrace of his many historic and current muses in imagined conversation with one another.
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas joined the legendary designer on the podcast during his big week who has been her friend for over a decade, since he designed an outfit for her to wear to the palace for her damehood appointment. At the time, his working space was above a movie theater and “everything smelled of popcorn” Moralioglu recounted to Chioma in Vogue’s London studio.
The pair of friends also recalled with some fondness and a twinge of horror the infamous nail polish incident of 2018 at the Met Gala—one can imagine where that story is headed—and all the other moments along the way when the Dame has phoned her dear friend with fashion emergencies.
Scott Thomas also took advantage of her moment in front of the microphone to ask Erdem one of her own questions about his process of pattern cutting which was even informative for our resident fashion savant Chioma. As he looks back on the last 20 years, Moralioglu lingers on a sentiment he expressed in his Erdem book—that simultaneously everything has changed and nothing has changed. “I can look back at my graduate collection and at sketchbooks from when I was 21 and still see a connection between who I was then and who I am now,” he told the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Chloe Mel, and I am so excited to tell you all about the spring issue of Vogue, my first as head of editorial content. |
| 0:07.9 | It is full of so many examples of what Vogue does best. |
| 0:12.2 | There is a spectacularly romantic cover shoot with Rosalia, a beautiful and moving remembrance of Valentino Garavani by Hamish Bowles, |
| 0:21.5 | the quest for the perfect pillow with a beautiful oil painting illustration |
| 0:25.7 | inspired by the Simone Roche at runway show, |
| 0:28.9 | a tribute to shoes that pack a punch, |
| 0:31.4 | starring some of our favorite staff doggs. |
| 0:34.3 | It's an issue I'm so proud of. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm so excited for everyone to see it and to touch it and hold it and keep it. And if you're not already a subscriber, this is the moment to join. You can get unlimited access at vogue.com slash spring issue. |
| 1:00.1 | This is The Run Through. I'm Charminardi and I'm here with one of fashion's faves. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome back to the Run Through. I can't believe we're lucky to be joined by an absolute legend. |
| 1:11.0 | Kristen Scott Thomas, thank you so much for coming and welcome to both of you. |
| 1:16.6 | Thank you very much. We're so excited to have you here during this really crazy week. |
| 1:24.4 | Let's start with the show yesterday. I love that you called it Imaginary Conversation. Tell us about the starting point. |
| 1:32.6 | Well, it was, I mean, coincidentally, it's my 20 year anniversary since we started. So my first show was in February 2006. |
| 1:36.3 | I think there was something about like the word retrospective that makes me feel kind |
| 1:40.7 | of a slightly uncomfortable. |
| 1:42.3 | So I was, and maybe it was the exercise of doing the book |
| 1:45.7 | that came out just before Christmas. When we were putting together the book, I was determined |
| 1:53.1 | that it wasn't like chronological and in a strange way when the show was coming together, |
| 1:58.2 | this idea of like the imaginary conversation between |
| 2:02.5 | all of these muses and characters, the idea of Radcliffe Hall speaking to Duke Ellington, |
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