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Welcome to Who Up Where With Hillary Kerr, your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors and taste makers who are shaping the ever evolving world of fashion.

I'm your host, Hillary Kerr and today I'm welcoming our fashion editor, Anna Laplaca, back to the show, who's here to discuss her brand new story, State of Style.

In this deep dive piece, Anna brings us inside not just what's hot in the style zeitgeist right now, but also discusses why it's so influential.

She's tapped some industry experts who explain the multitude of factors that influence what we're seeing take center stage at this very moment, ranging from a fashion psychologist to a fashion historian, from pedal pants to the heels that are everywhere, to the origins of quiet luxury.

You're going to want to stick around to hear it all. It's all coming up on Who Up Where.

All right, Anna, welcome back to the show. I am so excited to have you here and even more excited to talk about a brilliant new story that you have written that is live on Who Up Where Today called the State of Style.

First of all, can you just give our listeners a little background on this like what is the story, what can people expect and where did you come up with this idea?

Yeah, well first, thank you so much for having me back on the podcast today. It's always really special to be here, but I'm very excited about this story.

It's something that I've been thinking about for a while now. And if you're an avid reader of Who Up Where you already know that trend reporting and trend forecasting is something that we do a lot.

So for this piece, I really wanted to zoom out and look at why certain things are trending over others and why certain items and silhouettes and styles are bubbling up again at this precise moment because trends always come from somewhere. And so this story is really just going to dive into the larger origins of where we're at in the state of style.

It also gives a little devil wears Prada, right, like the Merrill Street, the blue sweater, right?

Absolutely.

Yes, that iconic scene where Anne Hathaway's character gets this explainer into why that exact shade of Cerulean that she picked out when she got dressed in the morning wasn't simply a choice that she was making on her own accord.

It was actually, you know, years in the making and it's very much about all of the behind the scenes influences into fashion.

And not only that sort of like the larger context thinking about, okay, like what's happening in politics and what's happening in the economy, like there are so many other factors.

I think that we as women are used to hearing that fashion is something frivolous when not only is it a huge incredibly powerful industry, but it also is influenced by and influences and we've together all of these different things, right?

Absolutely. Fashion doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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