BLOW-UP: When Liz Tilberis Transformed Bazaar
by Dennis Golonka + Cynthia True
Latest episode
The Reunion
The Reunion
About this podcast
A six-part podcast about the show-stopping return 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. With Fabien Baron, Paul Cavaco, Grace Coddington, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Isaac Mizrahi, Donna Karan, and Patrick Jephson.
Selected bonus interviews are now being released on our YouTube channel, with more to follow.
Episodes
- The Reunion · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 6For 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…
- A Changing Landscape · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 5For 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…
- Civilized Warfare · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 4When 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…
- On Edge · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 3Less than two years into Bazaar’s triumphant return, the magazine’s spare sculptural look was being imitated everywhere. Bazaar had, practically overnight, defined a new visual…
- The Angel in Chanel · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 2Liz Tilberis was nice. Legendarily nice. People said that when she fired an editor, they left feeling they’d won something. (They usually left with a chic little gift, too.) In…
- Enter Elegance · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 1In 1992, Vogue was, as it is today, the global fashion authority, and Anna Wintour was its already-famous leader. But an upset—to this day, the only one of Wintour’s reign— was…
- Blow-Up Trailer · 1 min · Season 1A 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…
