Veronica Leoni’s Debut at Calvin Klein
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.2 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Nicole Phelps is joined by Veronica Leoni, Creative Director of Calvin Klein. They sat down two days following Leoni’s debut show to talk about her life growing up in Rome, studying philosophy and fashion theory, what she learned from working for influential female designers, and her approach to defining the new essence at Calvin Klein.
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| 0:16.0 | This is The Run Through. I'm Nicole Phelps. Today I'm joined by Veronica Leone, the new creative director of Calvin Klein, who showed her debut collection here in New York last week. |
| 0:31.6 | Leone has quite the resume. An Italian based in Rome, she's a veteran of Jill Sander, Phoebe Philo, Celine, and the Roe. |
| 0:39.4 | She founded her own label, Quira, three years ago, and was an LVMH Prize finalist in 2023. |
| 0:45.6 | At the time, she described her style to vogue as a sharp point of view on femininity, with an edge. |
| 0:51.4 | We talked about her interpretation of Calvin Klein, early memories of the brand, |
| 0:55.6 | and what Calvin himself, who was in the audience at her show, thought of her debut. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, Veronica Leone, thank you so much for joining us on the run-through podcast, and congratulations |
| 1:07.6 | on your Calvin Klein debut. We're recording this two days after the show. |
| 1:12.5 | It's Sunday morning very early in the Vogue offices. |
| 1:15.5 | I want to know how you're feeling 48 hours after the show. |
| 1:18.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.1 | Thank you, Nicole. |
| 1:20.0 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:22.1 | It's actually a very cool morning here in New York. |
| 1:24.2 | I feel thrilled and excited and very happy for the last two weeks |
| 1:30.7 | I spent here. I think it's been a fantastic climax for this season and yeah, I'm very excited. |
| 1:38.7 | You got a nice snowstorm too while you were here. Exactly, exactly. I was just saying |
| 1:43.6 | this is actually the perfect, you know, January, February kind of fashion |
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