BLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed Bazaar

A six-part podcast about the resurrection of Harper's Bazaar in 1992 and the visionary editor who led it, Liz Tilberis. For a brief, glorious era, she gave Vogue a run for its money—and her old boss, Anna Wintour, too. 
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Subscribe to listen to our bonus Q&As with the models, celebrities, stylists, photographers, and, of course, the editors who made Harper's Bazaar the hippest fashion magazine of the Nineties. Guests so far include Christy Turlington; Mario Sorrenti; Daryl Hannah; Amber Valletta; Wendy Goodman, Design Editor of New York magazine; Andrea Linett, co-founder of Lucky; Jaime Perlman, editor-in-chief of More or Less; and Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana. 
We'll be dropping two episodes per month! 
Our six main episodes remain free on all platforms. 
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For the first time in decades, the supergroup that made Harper's Bazaar the coolest fashion magazine of the Nineties—Creative Director Fabien Baron, Co-Fashion Directors Paul Cavaco and Tonne Goodman, and Accessories Director Richard Sinnott—reunites with former colleagues and co-hosts Cynthia True and Dennis Golonka to talk about how working with editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis was lightning-in-a-bottle.
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For the first three years of Bazaar's comeback, Hearst Magazines gave Liz Tilberis and her team carte blanche. But by 1995, the magazine world was getting leaner, and Liz was under pressure to cut costs and kick up newsstand sales. Her solution? Celebrity. And lots of it. Suddenly, actresses, rock stars, and royalty graced the cover almost as often as supermodels. Inside, you were as likely to see Pamela Anderson shot by Peter Lindbergh as Amber Valletta. But Liz's cleverest use of celebrity came when she co-chaired the Met Gala in 1996; she created a slightly surreal Christian Dior tribute (with his best dresses suspended mid-air) and invited the world's biggest celebrities. Her guest of honor was Princess Diana, whose much-photographed presence that night put the Met Gala on the map—and Bazaar at the center of the chat.  

In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Golonka and Cynthia True discuss some great BTS moments with Linda Evangelista, former Bazaar editors Paul Cavaco and Richard Sinnott, Liz's former publicist Susan Magrino, and former assistant Stephanie Albertson. 
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When Liz Tilberis relaunched Harper's Bazaar in 1992, the fact that she was Anna Wintour's former right-hand—and her polar opposite—fueled press stories about a feud between fashion's top two editors. Some of it was drummed up, and some of it wasn't. 

In this episode, co-hosts Cynthia True and Dennis Golonka talk to friends and colleagues, including Grace Coddington, Paul Cavaco, Tonne Goodman, Susan Magrino, and Isaac Mizrahi, about the truth of Anna and Liz's complicated relationship and about how Liz remains Anna's only real rival to this day. 

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