{"podcast":{"title":"Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud","slug":"fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467","podcast_index_feed_id":7020467,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/fashionneurosis","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cfaba0aa-6f79-11ef-b002-1fdd7f77e814/image/e51bba1e0496e7dd9b0750e74143e146.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Bella Freud","episode_count":86,"summary":"Each week join the renowned fashion designer Bella Freud as she invites a special guest to lie on the couch and explore the connection between fashion and identity. Bella’s conversations begin with questions about style: what we reveal and hide through the clothes we wear. Bella also shares her own anecdotes and the conversations expand into deeper discussions on life’s universal themes - love, identity, culture, anxiousness, and even politics. Through a series of tailored questions, Bella creates a relaxed, intimate atmosphere where her guests - ranging from fashion icons to cultural figures in sport, art, music, film, and literature - reveal more about themselves than they might expect. Fashion is often dismissed as surface, but in this podcast it becomes the lens through which we examine our inner lives, relationships, and society. Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud offers a unique, thoughtful, and engaging conversation that goes far beyond what we wear, diving into the unspoken language of clothing and the ways in which we use style to navigate and communicate in the world. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. www.fashionneurosis.com www.fashionneurosis.substack.com @fashione…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:17:08.035057+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467"},"episode":{"title":"David Byrne","slug":"david-byrne","published_at":"2026-03-18T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467/david-byrne","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP3770879883.mp3?updated=1773752814","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP3770879883.mp3?updated=1773752814","summary":"David Byrne is a musician and visual artist. He was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, moving to Canada aged 2, and later Maryland, where he was raised in Baltimore. Byrne studied photography, performance, and video at RISD and the Maryland Institute College of Art, before moving to New York in the early 1970s. In 1975, Byrne co-founded the group Talking Heads, who released eight studio albums before splitting up in the early 1990s. The band made the concert film Stop Making Sense in 1984, directed by Jonathan Demme, which in 2024 was remastered and re-released by A24. Byrne established the record labels Luaka Bop and Todo Mundo, which have released music by artists including William Onyeabor, Cornershop, and Floating Points. As a solo musician, David Byrne has released over 10 solo albums, the most recent Who Is The Sky? released in 2025, and collaborated with artists including Brian Eno, St Vincent, and Olivia Rodrigo. He has written soundtracks for films including Bernando Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, for which Byrne won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Byrne has written several books including Bicycle Diaries and How Music Works, and in 1986 wrote, directed, and starred in True Stories, a musical collage of discordant Americana released in 1986. His theatrical work includes his 2019 American Utopia tour which was transferred to Broadway and a film version directed by Spike Lee, and his immersive theater production Theater of the Mind from 2022, which will be shown in Chicago in March 2026. In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and David Byrne discuss The Big Suit, the joy of Vampire movies, and being useless at dinner party conversations. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"David Byrne is a musician and visual artist. He was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, moving to Canada aged 2, and later Maryland, where he was raised in Balti…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3094,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467/episodes/david-byrne/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467/david-byrne.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}