Special Presentation of In VOGUE: The 1990s -- It Bags and It Girls

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We’re excited to bring you a new series from Vogue -- In Vogue: The 1990s. If you miss the 90s for all its nostalgia, fashion, and culture, you're going to love this episode on the fusion of fashion and celebrity culture. By the mid 90’s, fashion had ceased to be an insular, self-sustaining industry. The fashion ecosystem expanded rapidly to include celebrities as aspirational symbols of fashion and status in popular culture. We chronicle the era when pop culture became the vehicle for a mass education in high fashion. Voices featured, in order of appearance: Kristin Davis, Fran Drescher and Brenda Cooper for the Nanny, Donatella Versace, Vera Wang, Andie MacDowell, Melissa Joan Hart, Jennie Garth, Debra Messing, Melissa Rivers, Victoria Beckham, Meg Ryan, Angela Bassett, Claire Danes, Sharon Stone and stylist Paris Libby, Sofia Coppola, Elizabeth Hurley, Kristen Johnston, Raven Symone, Julia Stiles, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Tamera Mowry, Nia Long, Tonne Goodman, Plum Sykes, Mark Holgate, Laird, Darnell-Jamal Lisby If you like what you hear, subscribe to In VOGUE: The 1990s now on your preferred podcast app: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1526206712 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4uJdNOg4EtQAqlnfxLo7wX Or wherever you get your podcasts. For more on this week’s episode and to access additional Vogue content, make sure to visit vogue.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	I know it when I see it, an it girl that is.
0:35.0	The it girl is one of fashion's most enduring if elusive figures.
0:40.0	Everybody knows what it is, but no one can really define it.
0:44.0	Here are two attempts.
0:46.0	The IT factor lives in the girl who doesn't know she's beautiful,
0:50.0	who's utterly without self-consciousness or pretense. That's from the 1920s from British writer Eleanor
0:56.4	Glyn. Then there's The It Girl with a street smart style and down low attitude. That's how novelist J
1:05.9	McInerney famously described actor Chloe Severny, maybe the 90s first real it girl.
1:12.0	At the beginning of the 1990s the supermodels were
1:15.7	larger than life still the faces of fashion but as the decade moved on a new set of
1:21.7	cool girls slowly started drawing everyone's eyes off the runway and to the
1:26.4	front row of the show. They were the socialites, the starlets. They were the girls who knew how to dress as well on the street
1:35.0	as they did in the movies.
1:38.0	They sold us glamour and Hollywood,
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