The Golden Age of Vintage with Penelope Tree

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.2 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Vogue Vintage Market in London and New York is just days away! Model and writer Penelope Tree joined Chioma and British Vogue’s Fashion Features Director Julia Hobbs to talk about the piece she wrote for British Vogue’s April Issue on vintage, reflecting on the early days at the iconic Chelsea Antique market in the sixties, shopping alongside the Rolling Stones and how she feels the scene has changed.

Plus, Chloe and Chioma invite The Run-Through’s Tuesday host Nicole Phelps on the show to talk about the newest fashion shakeups with Loewe and Mugler.

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0:00.0	This is The Run Through. I'm Chloe Mal and I'm Cho Minardi. And this week on the show, I spoke with the wonderful icon Penelope Petrie. She was on the show with my colleague, Julia Hobbs, who's British Vogue's fashion features director. I'm so excited to hear this conversation.
0:22.1	Oh my God.
0:22.4	Yeah.
0:24.7	She's honestly got stories for days.
0:29.5	She talked a little bit about her marriage and love affair with David Bailey.
0:31.5	It was very, it was really cool.
0:32.5	It was really, really cool.
0:34.2	That is so fun.
0:55.0	Yeah, and Julia actually commissioned Penelope to write a piece for our new issue. And it's so good. And it's just all about the birth of vintage and about that time in the 60s when Penelope was just kind of coming up on the scene. And London was just this amazing kind of place to be. And as far as vintage, the place to be was the Chelsea market.
0:59.0	And you can literally find vintage Scaparelli Couture.
1:03.0	Wow.
1:04.0	You know, you could spot one of the Rolling Stones shopping there.
1:07.0	It was just like, I mean, it was hard to talk to her about current vintage because she was just like, it just doesn't compare.
1:12.9	You cannot find the kind of things that you did.
1:15.0	So I'm really excited for you guys to hear this conversation.
1:18.9	Before we get to the interview, Nicole Phelps, we are thrilled to have you here joining us for a special host summit, a meeting of the minds, on yet another round of industry shakeups.
1:30.7	Tell us everything. Give us a little, I feel like it's like a sports recap of the highlights of the week.
1:36.7	Well, Monday morning, we woke up to the news that had broken many hours earlier in Paris that Jack and Lazaro from Prenza's schooler,
1:45.8	designers who Vogue has been following since they were 21 years old, are going.
1:51.5	Since Lazzro famously wrote a note on a Delta napkin and passed it to Anna in first class,
1:57.3	asking about internships.
1:58.9	The greatest origin stories in New York fashion, I think.
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