What is Willa Bennett Even Doing?

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Kyle suits up for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett to discuss their ties du jour & love for Demna, the impact high school English teachers had on their careers, how Willa honors & evolves the magazines she loved growing up with, their Highsnobiety photoshoot that minted Kyle’s babygirl status, Willa’s inspiration for Cosmopolitan’s 60th anniversary edition & what makes magazines (and Macaulay Culkin) so special. Willa and Kyle wax about their shared passion for ballet & Blind Date, and Kyle gauges Willa’s journalism prowess in a friendly game of “News or Not” while sporting chic headwear.

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Editing by Mikey Harmon and Nicholas Giuricich
Research by Kimberly Walls
Music by Yatta

Art by Danica Robinson

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.4	What are we even doing?
0:11.2	What are we even doing?
0:14.4	Hey, it's Kyle McLaughlin, and welcome to the show.
0:17.2	What are we even doing?
0:18.8	Where I talk with fantastic artists, creators of all type,
0:22.4	about what they're up to, what they're doing, what's happening on the internet, how they're
0:26.7	using social, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And today we have like really a special guest.
0:31.5	I'm so excited. Willa Bennett is here. She's an author. She's a journalist. She's the
0:36.6	editor-in-chief of Cosmo in 17. I'm not going to say the youngest editor ever because you've probably heard that ad nauseum. But anyway, truly capable and so nice to have her on the show. So bless you. Thanks for being here. Thank you. I'm so, so, so, so, so happy to be here. I'm so glad to hear that. I put on the suit that I wore, that I went, when I went to the show, the Balenciaga show in Paris, I decided I would, I would honor you with a, so sweet.
1:02.2	try to like, you know, imitation is a serious form of flattery. So, and then I have my Scottish, my tartan tie just for like a little.
1:05.3	And you're wearing a tie that I brought as an alternative.
1:09.7	Yeah.
1:13.5	Which is an old Jean-Paul-Gault-Gault tie that I love. I'm so honored to wear it for this. It's kind of a lace satin kind of thing. It's beautiful. I wish you could all touch it. It's really interesting, right? It's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, thank you for letting me borrow this.
1:14.0	I'm so honored. Demas Blenziaga looks really good on you. Thank you very much. It was made for you. He is such a special person. Yeah. You know, as I've gotten to know him and appreciate what he's done. and he's now moving to Gucci
1:29.0	and I'm excited to see
1:43.3	what he's going to do there as well.
1:44.5	Yeah, I think his like,
1:46.2	Admer, and appreciate what he's done. And he's now moving to Gucci, and I'm excited to see what he's going to do there as well.
1:48.0	Yeah, I think his, like, admiration of the past while also pushing forward is, like, so special.
1:46.2	And it's something I think a lot about at Cosmo, just, you know,
1:51.6	taking this, like, heritage, legacy brand that so many people have associations with
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