This is The Run Through. I'm Nicole Phelps.

The 2024 fashion year was bookended by Sarah Burton's Swan Song at Alexander McQueen and

Louise Trotter landing the creative director job at Bataga Veneta.

In between the state of women in the fashion industry, specifically how few of them

are in the top design roles, became the talk of the internet again. But let's be real, there is

no shortage of female talent in the industry. And that's a point that we were reminded of this

season already with Veronica Leone's debut at Calvin Klein, please listen to our interview with her,

and Sarah Burton's upcoming debut at Givanchi.

These are women who have already had long careers in fashion,

designers whose moment has come.

We have to wait until October for Trotter's debut at Bataga Veneta.

In the meantime, though,

I wanted to speak to the next

generation of women designers about the challenges of operating in what can still feel like a man's

world. This is my conversation with Rachel Scott of Diatima, Julie Kiegel's, and Colleen Allen.

In the time since our recording, Iyo Adebri wore a Colleen Ellen black velvet eunect dress to the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary event, and people were losing their minds over how great she looked.

Rachel Scott's diatima presentation at New York Fashion Week was a triumph and one of the very few to tackle the current state of America.

And Julie Kiggles is gearing up to show her latest collection at Paris Fashion Week on March 5th.

I love speaking with these three, and I hope you'll learn as much as I did.

I want to start by saying thank you all for doing this. And it's a good week for women designers.

Louise Trotter got the Pataga Veneda job,

and she becomes Carring's first woman designer

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