The Who What Wear Podcast: Fashion Analyst Mandy Lee, aka @oldloserinbrooklyn, Talks Met Gala Predictions, 2026 Trend Forecasts, and AI in the Fashion Industry

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, Who What Wear Senior Fashion and Social Editor Tara Gonzalez sits down with fashion analyst Mandy Lee (aka @oldloserinbrooklyn) to discuss everything from Met Gala fashion forecasting to 2026 trend predictions. Lee also shares her thoughts on AI’s place in the industry (hint: nowhere) and the rise of utilitarianism. Plus, she shares which emerging brand she thinks we’ll all be buying by the end of the year. Watch this episode ⁠⁠here on our new YouTube channel⁠⁠, and be sure to subscribe!

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by 20th Century Studios, The Devil Wares Prada, too.
0:07.0	Gird your loins as the iconic cast is back for this highly anticipated sequel.
0:13.0	Miranda Priestley is dealing with a major scandal that threatens the entire magazine.
0:18.0	And now, award-winning journalist Andy Sacks is brought back to runway to try
0:23.5	and save the publication and Miranda's credibility. With Merrill Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt,
0:30.8	and Stanley Tucci all reprising their roles, this is a reunion you won't want to miss.
0:37.4	Make sure to get your tickets for the Devil Wears Prada 2 only in theaters May 1st.
0:53.6	Welcome to the Who What Wear podcast.
0:56.2	I'm Who What Wear Senior Fashion and Social Editor Tara Gonzalez, stepping in for Hillary this week.
1:01.3	Today I'm speaking to Mandy Lee, aka Old L loser in Brooklyn.
1:04.8	Mandy's a fashion and trend analyst with hundreds of thousands of followers across her social media profiles.
1:10.2	Today we're talking about her 2026 trend predictions, the impact of AI on the fashion industry,
1:15.6	and her MetGala fashion forecasts.
1:17.6	It's all coming up on who what wear.
1:23.6	Mandy, welcome back to the pod.
1:28.1	Hi, Tara.
1:28.8	So happy you're here.
1:30.3	The last time you were here was two years ago in 2024.
1:33.2	I think you talked to our editor-in-chief, Kat Collings, about your career.
1:36.7	For anybody listening who hasn't heard about that, I would love to kind of, if you could just give a little bit of a glimpse into how you started your career as an analyst.
1:44.8	And then now you are one of the internet's favorite fashion commentators. I've been a fan girl for a real long time.
1:51.3	Yeah. And thank you guys so much for having me back. It's good to be back with WWW, triple W.
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