The House of Versace | Molly Young Breaks Down Donatella’s Excessive Vision | 27
Even the Rich
Wondery
4.3 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In 2018, Molly Young went to Milan to sit down with Donatella Versace. Now, she’s digging out some of her most outrageous memories, including the startling discovery she made in the bathroom at Versace headquarters. Molly is the literary critic at New York Magazine. She’s also the author of “The Things They Fancied,” a zine about rich people’s sick and twisted hobbies.Check out Molly’s zine, “The Things They Fancied” — http://www.youngblanks.com/products/the-things-they-fancied
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app I'm Brooke Ziffran, and I'm Arisha Skidmore Williams. |
| 0:25.6 | And this is even the rich. |
| 0:27.6 | Over the last four episodes, we've been dressing to impress. |
| 0:30.9 | Okay, no we haven't. |
| 0:31.9 | Okay, not literally, but we have been tourists in the world of high |
| 0:35.4 | fashion as we followed the rise and fall and rise again of the Versace label. You taught |
| 0:40.9 | me some new vocabulary like aelier and Kator and do I smell Chaneo? |
| 0:47.0 | Well today Brooke I have the distinct pleasure of talking to someone who isn't a fashion world gate-crasher like us. |
| 0:56.0 | She was actually invited. |
| 0:58.0 | Wow. Her name is Molly Young and in 2018 she wrote a story for GQ called The Excessive Vision of Donatella Versace. |
| 1:06.4 | Let me just say it's the smartest funniest most insight filled portrait that I've ever read. |
| 1:13.0 | These days, Molly is the literary critic of New York magazine. |
| 1:16.0 | She's also the author of a zine about the sick and twisted hobbies of rich people |
| 1:20.0 | called The Things They Fancied. |
| 1:22.0 | Ooh, nice. That sounds amazing. rich people called the things they fancied. |
| 1:22.8 | Oh nice that sounds amazing you asked her about it right? |
| 1:25.8 | Come on broth this isn't my first interview. |
| 1:28.6 | Right right it's your fifth. Hi Molly, thanks so much for being here. |
| 1:34.0 | Hi Ereche. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi, A Ereche. |
| 1:41.0 | Hi, Areche. Hi Molly, thanks so much for being here. |
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