Front Row with Audrey Charlyes : The Confidential Edition

This week, Audrey performs the autopsy on the celebrity brand boom: the closures piling up (The Outset, GXVE Beauty, Cosmoss, Flower Beauty), how licensing really works and why "founder" is the most generous word in fashion, and the few who actually built something. The Row. Victoria Beckham's first profit in 18 years. Skims at $5 billion. Rihanna's two very different Fentys. Rhode's billion-dollar exit.Plus: Lady Gaga takes the CEO chair at Haus Labs, and the three-question test that separates a real brand from merch.Shady, informed, critical but never rude.#skincare #beauty #perfume #skims #fenty #therow #rhode #victoriabeckham #KylieJenner #KimKardashian #celebrity

Everybody famous has a brand now. Almost nobody famous has a business. 💅Serums, shapewear, candles that smell like their "energy"… and the closures keep piling up. This week on Front Row I'm asking the only question that matters: who's actually building a house, and who's just renting out their name?The Olsens. Victoria. Kim. Rihanna. Hailey. And Lady Gaga's plot twist.🎙️ S3 Ep9: The Celebrity Brand Complex. Out Thursday, wherever you listen.#FrontRowPodcast #CelebrityBrands #FashionPodcast #FashionBusiness #TheRow #Skims #FentyBeauty #Rhode #HausLabs #LuxuryFashion

American fashion threw its biggest party of the year on Monday night, and the CFDA Fashion Awards were presented by Amazon Fashion. Yes, that Amazon, the one that seized 15 million counterfeit products in 2025. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes breaks down the winners, from Rachel Scott’s second Womenswear Designer of the Year win for Diotima to Ralph Lauren’s menswear prize, plus the vintage and denim moments that stole the night. Then it’s time for the dupe economy: what separates a fake from a dupe, why the courts can’t decide, how superfakes are fooling even the experts, and how to protect yourself when you buy luxury. Shady, honest, unfiltered. This is Front Row: The Confidential Edition#fashion #vintage #resale #dupe #fake #luxury

American fashion threw its biggest party of the year on Monday night, and the CFDA Fashion Awards were presented by Amazon Fashion. Yes, that Amazon, the one that seized 15 million counterfeit products in 2025. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes breaks down the winners, from Rachel Scott’s second Womenswear Designer of the Year win for Diotima to Ralph Lauren’s menswear prize, plus the vintage and denim moments that stole the night. Then it’s time for the dupe economy: what separates a fake from a dupe, why the courts can’t decide, how superfakes are fooling even the experts, and how to protect yourself when you buy luxury. Shady, honest, unfiltered. This is Front Row: The Confidential Edition#fashion #vintage #fake #dupe #cfda #clothes #accessories

Fashion month is over, and the numbers are in. Out of every look on the Spring/Summer 2027 runways in New York, London, Milan and Paris, only 2.5% went to mid-size and plus-size models. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes, former curvy model and body-positivity advocate, asks who is actually allowed on the runway. Why is fashion suddenly celebrating older models but not bigger ones? Why are designers padding corsets and panniers onto size-zero bodies instead of casting real curves? What's really behind the backslide: sample sizes, the weight-loss-jab era, or plain old habit? And why is luxury ignoring a $114 billion market? Audrey also shares her own story from the other side of the camera, where they edited curves onto her in post. Shady, honest, and completely unfiltered. This is Front Row: The Confidential Edition.#fashion #fashionstyle #fashionweek #milan #milanfashionweek #Parisfashionweek #newyork #London #size #chanel

Fashion month is over, and the numbers are in. Out of every look on the Spring/Summer 2027 runways in New York, London, Milan and Paris, only 2.5% went to mid-size and plus-size models. In this episode, Audrey Charlyes, former curvy model and body-positivity advocate, asks who is actually allowed on the runway. Why is fashion suddenly celebrating older models but not bigger ones? Why are designers padding corsets and panniers onto size-zero bodies instead of casting real curves? What's really behind the backslide: sample sizes, the weight-loss-jab era, or plain old habit? And why is luxury ignoring a $114 billion market? Audrey also shares her own story from the other side of the camera, where they edited curves onto her in post. Shady, honest, and completely unfiltered. This is Front Row: The Confidential Edition.

Shanghai Fashion Week just staged nearly 100 shows, and here are the ten that matter: five I loved (Samuel Gui Yang, Pronounce, Oude Waag, Mark Gong, Hemu), four in the middle, and one that missed the point entirely. 🇨🇳Then we fly to Los Angeles for the Academy Museum Gala: Hunter Schafer's black velvet Prada, Taylor Swift in Dior, Kendall's three kinds of polka dots, and Kim Kardashian in archival 1951 Balenciaga. 🎬 Plus the business nobody talks about: how archive and vintage pieces travel from private dealers and house archives to the red carpet, and why access, not money, decides who wears them. 👗We close with the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and Kylie Jenner's debut in the $50 million Jacob & Co Fantasy Bra. Comeback, or nostalgia trailer? 💎Front Row: The Confidential Edition. Same discretion, same receipts.#FrontRow #FashionPodcast #ShanghaiFashionWeek #SS27 #SamuelGuiYang #Pronounce #OudeWaag #MarkGong #Hemu #ShushuTong #Anta #ChenPeng #Jendes #Adidas #StanSmith #AcademyMuseumGala #HunterSchafer #Prada #TaylorSwift #Dior #SabrinaCarpenter #ArmaniPrive #ColmanDomingo #Valentino #KendallJenner #AdriaArjona #GretaLee #BrittanySnow #MaxMara #KimKardashian #Balenciaga #LawRoach #LilyEtCie #VictoriasSecret #KylieJenner #FantasyBra #JacobAndCo

From the runway to the red carpet. Ten Shanghai shows: five I loved, four that were fine, and one that missed the point. Then Kim Kardashian's 1951 Balenciaga, and the business behind it nobody explains. And Kylie Jenner's $50 million Fantasy Bra, on her very first walk. Adriana earned that bra. Kylie got it.Front Row, Season 3, Episode 6. Thursday.#Balenciaga #kimkardashian #Shanghai #Fashionshow #fashionweek #victoriassecret #fashionstyle #fashiontrends #trending #redcarpet #style

Three owners. Two authenticators. One divorce. Zero days of actual use. And somehow it's worth more today than the day it was bought.This week on Front Row, I take you inside the business I actually run: luxury resale. Who makes the money, who takes the commission, why the houses suddenly want their cut, and why your "investment bag" might just be a very expensive dust bag.#vintage #luxury #resale #vestiairecollective #farfetch #mytheresa #clothes #fashion #business

Three owners. Two authenticators. One divorce. Zero days of actual use. And somehow it's worth more today than the day it was bought.This week on Front Row, I take you inside the business I actually run: luxury resale. Who makes the money, who takes the commission, why the houses suddenly want their cut, and why your "investment bag" might just be a very expensive dust bag.New episode Thursday. Check the stitching.Front Row: The Confidential Edition. Shady, entertaining, critical but never rude.#collectorsquare #vinted #vestiarecollective #chanel #Schiaparelli #Gucci #vintage #resale #louisvuitton #thombrowne #lanvin #tiffany #dior #galliano #cartier #misssohee #margiela #givenchy