L’Enchanteur’s Dynasty and Soull Ogun, Winners of the 2024 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.2 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, Nicole Phelps and Mark Holgate are joined by the 2024 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners Dynasty and Soull Ogun, the twin sisters behind L’Enchanteur, a line of jewelry and ready-to-wear that quickly captivated the judges. They discuss their career trajectory, growing up in Flatbush, and their unique creative approaches to the design process. Their designs will also be featured in “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will open next May.

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0:00.0	This is The Run Through. I'm Nicole Phelps. And I'm Mark Holgate.
0:08.4	Today on the show, we're talking with Dynasty and Seoul Ogun of L'Enchanter.
0:13.0	Our winners of the 2024 CFTA Vogue Fashion Fund, which happened on Wednesday evening.
0:19.5	After many months of challenges and events and getting to know
0:24.5	all of the finalists. And it was a great year, right? It was a terrific year and a really terrific
0:30.8	group of finalists in our 20th year of the CFTA Vogue Fashion Fund. Yes, it's such a treat to be back on the jury and to get to, yes, and to get to
0:40.5	know a whole new group of designers. I was really thrilled to be part of it. Thank you. Here is our
0:46.5	conversation. Dynasty and Soul. Thank you so much for joining us on the run through podcast.
0:55.7	Thank you. Thank you. I'm joining us on the Run Through podcast. Thank you. Thank you.
1:13.3	I'm going to jump right in. On Wednesday night, you received the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund first prize, and it was a great night, and it's a huge accomplishment. And we want to know, Mark and I want to know, how did you feel about winning and did you think you would win? Well, I think throughout the process,
1:16.2	there was a lot of affirming things that allowed us to be like,
1:19.5	oh, okay, maybe we might win this
1:21.6	because it was just going along with what we had been doing.
1:26.2	However, there were times when I did think of some of our other peers,
1:31.6	and I thought, like, they had strong things going on,
1:34.2	but we still was settled in our confidence of what we were doing at the same time.
1:38.0	So it was basically like appreciating that they had strengths,
1:40.8	but it was just like we were just focused on what our journey was.
1:43.8	It wasn't really taking us off so much.
1:46.0	I will say funny enough, what was funny is when we sat down, we were like, wow, we're like
1:51.5	in the blood nose section.
1:52.6	I definitely said that.
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