Fashion and beauty podcasts we’re bingeing RN

Podcasts have gained a huge surge in popularity over the past few years, with global audiences tuning in daily. This has meant many luxury fashion brands have started to get on board, to reach customers on this (relatively) new platform. Luckily for us, this has allowed a glimpse into the previously notoriously secretive world of elite fashion houses. If you’re a Gucci-obsessive like us, you’ll love the brand’s pivot to podcast content. Each episode of the Gucci podcast talks to those who are collaborating with the house’s creative director Alessandro Michele, offering an insight into the brand’s eclectic narrative and inspirational vision. Guests include Florence and The Machine’s Florence Welch, Sir Elton John and more. Fashion and beauty cross over here, too – as the launch of Gucci beauty is discussed with guests.

Anyone who has viewed an episode of House of DVF (where she’d regularly offer motherly-like advice to employees, including The Hill’s Whitney Port) or watched an interview with Ms Von Furstenburg will attest that they could listen to the wise and witty veteran fashion designer talk for hours on a range of topics. Now, thanks to Spotify, we can do just that. This month DVF has launched her very own podcast, highlighting the journeys of other hardworking women across a variety of industries. In each episode, she interviews a woman working at the top of her game—from Kris Jenner and Elaine Welteroth to model Karlie Kloss—about overcoming adversity and accomplishing their goals. We adore this celebration of sisterhood that sees women supporting other women in the spotlight. Feminist goals – you betcha.

We’ve loved following model and activist Charli Howard (www.instagram.com/charlihoward)on Instagram, so when we heard she was launching a fashion podcast, we knew we were in for a treat. She’s not afraid to tackle the big topics, calling out the industry’s reputation for putting profit before people and planet. Fashion Fix sees Charli interview key industry insiders, as they unpick complex issues from body image, sustainability, #MeToo, low pay in high fashion, diversity and self-care. Listen, learn and join in with the fashion revolution. 

Fashion historians April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary take you on a fascinating journey inside the history of fashion, to explore why we wear the things we do. You may not think the social and cultural histories that influence our clothing would be of interest, but you’d be surprised – the compelling storytelling from April and Cassidy makes Dressed a must-listen. Topics include; where did cat-eye sunglasses originate? How did mary-jane shoes come to be? And possibly our favourite, the clothes that accompany our TV-obsession The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. We find this podcast oddly relaxing, which is just what we need right now.

Beauty journalist and blogger Madeleine Spencer’s Beauty Full Lives is a joy to listen to from start to finish. It explores each guest’s emotional relationship with beauty, how it has shaped their younger lives and the part it plays a part in it now. Guests including Holly Willoughby, Millie Mackintosh and Caroline Hirons let us in on their life’s pivotal beauty moments and the disasters along the way. It’s easy to dismiss beauty as unnecessary or frivolous, but that would be a mistake – it is entwined in our sense of self, is a tool for self-expression and can positively change the way we feel about ourselves day-to-day. We’d recommend Madeline’s podcast to any beauty lover.

Lift the lid on breakthrough trends, brands and their products with Canada-based beauty editors Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins. Listen to these beauty experts chew-the-fat with an impressive roster of guests including Glossier’s Emily Weiss, NYX founder Toni Ko, celebrity facialists, hairstylists and a host of insiders who are instrumental in making the world of beauty go round. You’ll come away armed with insider knowledge on the inner workings of top beauty company’s, plus every other week Breaking Beauty gives you #TheGlowDown – citing the best new products worth spending your hard-earned cash on.

Outspoken Beauty does exactly what the title suggests – bring you an honest, straight-talking insight into a host of beauty-centric topics, hosted by beauty editor and broadcaster Nicola Bonn. Nicola, along with an array of celebrities, experts and influencers including Alex Steinherr, Sunday Times Style Beauty Boss Sarah Jossel thrash-out our relationship with beauty products, trends and treatments. Expect debate, candidness and product recommendations a-plenty. Outspoken Beauty makes for a fun and feisty listen that all beauty-obsessives will enjoy.