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On the couch with Freud. Bella Freud. "Fashion Neurosis" is the podcast for fashion fans

29/1/2025

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Model Kate Moss, musician Nick Cave, designer Jonathan Anderson. With her illustrious circle of friends and acquaintances, Bella Freud talks about personal style, fashion traumas and the lapse of trends.

"What are you wearing today and why did you choose this particular outfit?" Bella Freud asks all her guests this question at the beginning. Immediately after they have settled horizontally on the cream-coloured bouclé couch. A camera observes the fashion and interior designer's reclining counterpart from a bird's eye view. Bella Freud, great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and daughter of painter Lucian Freud, not only has her own brand, but also joined the ranks of podcasters in October 2024. Always sitting in a heavy leather armchair, a notebook on her knees.

"Ehm ... I chose these clothes because I always wear them. [...] I always wear a suit. When I wake up in the morning, I put on a suit," admits Nick Cave, for example. He also always wears a vintage tie, always the same model of Gucci shoes. And he says that as a child he once wore his sister's tights under unbearably itchy woollen trousers and was exposed by his classmates because of them. That he has dyed his hair black since his first heartbreak as a teenager.

Supermodel Kate Moss, on the other hand, chooses her outfits based on where she goes and who she meets. "In a way, I want to please. I want to arrive and hear 'Ooh, I like that'." She explains what it was like to be photographed topless for the first time at 15 - still at school, of course - and to be featured in a campaign. And wonders why, strangely enough, most designers generally preferred to send her topless in front of cameras and on catwalks.

Designers Rick Owens and JW Anderson as well as actress Courteney Cox are also among the guests who have taken to Bella Freud's couch with their "fashion neuroses" since last October. The 63-year-old's podcast is a charming nod to great-grandfather Sigmund Freud, but above all a cool interview format for those interested in fashion, design and style.

In my opinion, the best way to consume "Fashion Neurosis" is with video - after all, when else in your life are you going to see Kate Moss in nylon stockings bedded on bouclé? There's a new episode every Wednesday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

Header image: youtube.com/@Fashion_Neurosis

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Laura Scholz

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