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The Run-Through with Vogue

Serena Williams's New Normal

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.2724 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It was just a few months ago that Serena Williams announced she’s taking a step back from tennis in the September issue of Vogue. We hear about what life looks like now— everything from being a mom, a VC with Serena Ventures and a children's book author. Plus, we visit with Ruth Carter about how she created the afrofuturist world of Wakanda Forever through costume.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the run-through with Vogue.

0:06.0

I'm Cho Mnardi.

0:07.2

And I'm Chloe Mow.

0:08.4

And we're so excited to be hosting Vogue's new podcast.

0:11.8

So we want the show to be like the chitter-chatter at the end of the weekly Vogue features meetings where all the editors say what they're really feeling.

0:19.2

Exactly.

0:19.7

So this is basically the Vogue editors group chat.

0:22.6

Terrifying thought.

0:25.0

So Chloe, who are we?

0:27.1

Well, I started working at Vogue spring of 2011.

0:31.9

I was 25, the week of the Met Gala.

0:34.8

Wow.

0:35.2

And there's always a sort of frantic energy at Vogue, but that week particularly, there's

0:41.9

like an urgency and chaos that's really hard to describe or replicate.

0:48.4

This was at four times square.

0:49.6

It was sort of an era where everyone wore stilettos all day, and you heard like click, click, click, clack, clack,

0:54.8

clack, clack across the hallway. And the vibe was very much like being in the ER, but in heels.

1:00.3

And instead of gurneys, there were clothing racks. Everything felt like very urgent and intense.

1:06.6

And one of the few people that first week who did not exude that energy was Choma.

1:12.5

I was very appreciative of that calm port and the storm.

1:15.9

Oh, I think you handled it so well.

1:17.8

You always had such a – I just felt you glided in.

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