Myha’la Herrold on What Harper’s Hair Reveals About Industry Season 4
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
HBO’s Industry is back this week and we couldn’t be more excited! Myha’la Herrold joins senior editor Marley Marius and fashion writer Hannah Jackson on Vogue’s podcast to bring us up to speed on what her character Harper Stern is in for in season four.
“The end of season three is very much her being like, “I'm gonna be my own boss.” This is the time when she truly breaks away,” says Myha’la.
Each season of the show, Myha’la works with the showrunners Konrad Kay and Mickey Down to use Harper’s hair to tell a story of where the character is at in her life and this season is no different.
“She's at the top of her game and she's going harder than she's ever gone before. And I was like, well obviously it's gotta be the micro braids with the human hair,” says Myhala on her season four look. "It's gotta be the most expensive, probably the most high maintenance, the most difficult thing and the most elevated version of Harper.”
Great care went into creating Harper’s wardrobe this season as Costume Designer Laura K. Smith created a power suit to set the tone for the character. “We always trade boards like I was sending her pictures of Celine and YSL," reflects Myha’la.
“That first shot that we see Harper is in a gray three-piece suit. It is a custom designed and custom made suit by Laura for Harper,” says Myha’la. “[Laura] was like, I want this to be like the hero piece for her closet and for her to be able to mix and match.”
Myha’la takes a trip down memory lane and talks about fronting a Christian rock-band in high school and talks about her love of musicals and her dream role of playing Elle Woods in Legally Blonde on Broadway.
“I'm manifesting.” says Myha’la. “I sing everything but my favorite genre is definitely musical theater. If anyone is looking for a five foot one, available, black baddie who lives in New York, cast me!”
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| 0:00.0 | This is the run through. I'm Marley Marius, a senior editor at Vogue, and I'm here with |
| 0:10.2 | fashion writer Hannah Jackson. Hi, Hannah. Hi, Marley. So nice to join you here. So nice to have |
| 0:16.8 | you here. Um, well, today we're going to be talking to someone that we're both obsessed with, who is the incredible Mahala Herald, who listeners, watchers will know from the HBO series industry, which is back for its fourth season on January 11th. |
| 0:33.3 | In it, Mahala plays Harper Stern. She's kind of like the young, lone American, growing up through this sort of cut-throat world of British finance. |
| 0:43.4 | And we're kind of following her along and sort of a new adventure of this season. |
| 0:47.5 | We were just talking before cameras were rolling about what really attracts us to industry. |
| 0:53.1 | And it's like, you know, the prestige and the drama of succession and, like, the, you know, sex and drugs of euphoria. |
| 1:01.8 | So it's very bad. |
| 1:02.6 | And they're not children, which is great. |
| 1:04.7 | It's so true. |
| 1:05.6 | And I also feel like we are the age of these characters, kind of. |
| 1:09.1 | So it's, and it began very much with them, with sort of recent college graduates just like entering a sort of training sort of program at. |
| 1:19.9 | Pierpoint. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, Pierpoint and Co. |
| 1:22.2 | A British sort of, wait, I'm trying to remember what the word is. Investment banking. Are they investment bankers? That's also a question. Honestly, who the hell knows? We don't know what they do. Maybe Mahalik and Clarify for us. We're such big fans, by the way. Good that I think about this show is that like no one actually knows what they're talking about at any time, but it's |
| 1:44.3 | fun because we, they sell us on the drama that. Exactly. It's like, it's, it's such a, an intuitive show in a way where you can just follow the emotion. Yeah. And, you know, it's kind of like Shakespeare in a sense where it's like, totally. You know, I get the gist of what you're saying. I have no idea what you're talking about |
| 2:00.9 | but I'm following, I'm tracking |
| 2:02.7 | like I can sense the beats. Rich stuff, rich text. Rich indeed. Oh, my God. Her mind, folks. |
| 2:11.3 | But let's bigger in, do I say. Yes, let's do it. Okay, welcome to Mahala. Hi, guys. Hi, how are you? How much of that did you |
| 2:21.6 | catch? Enough. Us being just insane. Marley and I just like we do at our desk. All I heard was, |
| 2:28.0 | are they investment bankers? Good. No one really knows. Okay, well, that's true. We'll get into that. |
| 2:34.4 | Okay, great. Well, Mahalo, we're so excited to have you. Congratulations. I one really knows. Okay, well... And that's true. We'll get into that. We'll get into that. Okay, great. |
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