Vogue Editors' Favorite Culture Moments of 2025 | PLUS Dario Vitale Exits Versace

26:37Like we love sort of an adult comedy. That's what I'd call it on Netflix. Still there. Check it out. The other one I felt like everyone was watching and discussing whether or not they liked it was too much. And how did you feel out, Taylor? Too much was not for me. I think it was too much for you. It was too much and not enough for me, but I think that... Yeah, I respected it. I thought it was fun. I think it spoke to a moment the same way that I Love L.A. did. It was like really encapsulating a certain segment of... This was the year of the Zillennial in many ways, which I identify with. You heard it here first.

27:13Marius. As a cusper myself, I was feeling so seen by both. I mean, honestly, I really did love too much. And Will Sharp in it, like, dreamy, dreamy, dreamy. Dreamy, dreamy, dreamy. Dreamy, dreamy, dreamy, sad boy energy. Just incredible things happening over there. Yep. So that was huge. And we love Meg Stalter, a star, so charismatic, so fun. And just, again, Lena Dunham, love forever. Most important voice of a generation, forever. I mean, can we also just say that we are all looking forward to January 2026 and the return of Industry. Oh, my God. Which is season four is coming. Urgently. And it is, I've seen the first two episodes and they are mega, mega.

27:56I've seen the first three. Give me more. Give me more. Oh, no, I want to see the first three. You maybe need to see the previous seasons? I did, I did. You meanie.

28:09Speaking of things with followings, Showgirl. Life of a Showgirl. Oh. I just, it was a big deal. A Taylor release is a big deal. And I do feel like it became showgirl culture. For sure. I learned that my mom is a Taylor Swift fan, didn't I? Oh, what, they're going to say a showgirl. No. She did want to be a dancer, but that's a different story. She did want to be a dancer on Broadway. But yeah, she was like, oh, I love this album. I was like, oh, okay. The more you know. Ruth surprises us at every turn. She really, really, oh my God, she's going to love this. She's going to love this. I can't wait to hear more of what Ruth Marius has been listening to this year.

28:43But first, let's hear from our colleagues with the best taste in music. I'm Chelsea. I'm a producer on the run through with Vogue. This year, I could not stop listening to Erika DeCassier's new album. It's like very trip-hop inspired. I feel like I'm a huge Estero fan, so it was like totally up my alley. The name of the album is Lifetime. It's gorgeous. I recommend that everyone listen to it. I also had so much fun listening to Pink Panther's new album. It's called Fancy That, and then the remix album Fancy Some More is honestly even better. I love the remix with Blade. It's really fun. Hi, I'm Liam Hess, Vogue's senior lifestyle editor, and my culture highlight of 2025 would definitely have to be Rosalia's album Lux, which came out in November.

29:34this kind of operatic epic about spirituality and romance. And I remember just sitting on my first listen with my headphones on and being totally blown away by it. And I've had it on repeat ever since. I know it's been heaped with plenty of praise, but I just really do think it's an extraordinary and totally singular album. And also just a huge risk melding those classical elements with pop and dance music. It could have been so cheesy. It could have gone so wrong, but her taste level is just impeccable, and she completely pulled it off. And I also just think it's so cool that someone who is really at the height of her success with this enormous global following is still willing to do something that really defies everyone's expectations.

30:22And it still broke Spotify Records, I think. I just hope that it encourages more musicians at her level to really swing for the fences in the same way. I'm glad we heard from Liam who really does have the best taste in music on the staff I agree and does a lot of great interviews with musicians I've never heard of in my entire life speaking of which my favorite album of the year is one that Liam did an interview with and that would be Machine Gun Kelly? no that was you that was old Taylor I'm not I'm not against Machine Gun Kelly at all quite the contrary big fan but it's Jane Remover who is this sort of electronic artist they are I think like 21 years old and has this new record called Revenge Seekers that is so noisy and chaotic and great.

31:07And I loved it. And Liam was all over it for the site. So I was happy about that. What, Marlee, was your Spotify wrapped age? Tell the listeners. Oh, yeah. How do I find that? Taylor is driving me too deaf about this. Okay. You open Spotify and you click on Wrapped. So you actually have to download Spotify first, though, Chloe? I think I have. But I also, yours is going to be messed up because you are listening to kids' music. That's so true. Actually, yours is going to be interesting because it's going to be mixed with Fats Waller and like the Moana soundtrack, so I can't wait to find out. Oh, gosh.

31:39Okay. Okay, sound off, please. Wait. You probably, you are probably over 100 on Spotify age. I'm obsessed. Oh, my God. Well, yeah, my listening age was 79. Amazing. To give you a sense. I'm iconic. It obviously means that, like, the stuff I had on repeat was, like, not stuff that came out this year. I was listening to a lot of Bach. I was listening to a lot of Johnny Mafflet. I was, as ever, listening to a lot of Barbra Streisand. But anyway, the new things I did like this year. Actually, this is another—this is an artist that was turned on to me by a colleague, our colleague Anna Cofola. She had mentioned the artist Nourish by Time that I didn't know of at all.

32:21But he released an album called The Passionate Ones this year. And it's this kind of like alt R &B that was just extremely cool and I was really compelled by. So that kind of, that was introduced to my rotation this year, which was kind of an exciting thing. I was also really into Lorde's album Virgin, which was blocked at the Grammys, which I thought was lame. Didn't receive a Grammy nomination is what I mean. But I was really into a lot of the visuals of that album. Something was like very kind of earthy and corporeal about it. Her sound was kind of funky. Like, I was really into that album in a way that I kind of haven't been with new releases that often.

33:02And also, Steve Lacey, who admittedly I only discovered on, like, TikTok, I want to say, like, two or three years ago when one of his songs, Bad Habit, became, like, an inescapable and actually really annoying thing. But he released his first song in, like, three years because he has an album, I guess, coming out in 2026 called Nice Shoes. Which is like a bit sort of silly and a bit vulgar, but also like very cool. It's like sonically really interesting. He's just like a very kind of like cool sort of West Coast young artist. And yeah, so that was exciting. That was breaking up my, you know, Luther Vandross this year.

33:40Bring your age down ever so slightly on Spotify. That's why I was 79, not 80. I'm definitely the oldest person here, but my Spotify age is 20. Yeah, that's... Probably because I'm going through a midlife crisis. Yeah, you should examine that. And because I couldn't stop listening to probably my favorite artist, this guy named Glaive, who is 20 years old. Glaive? Glaive, yes. And he—you're excused from this part of the conversation. Yeah, I'm just reclining emails. He's 20 years old. And he is like a hyper-pop artist, electronic composer, sort of like—his new record's called Y 'all, and it's so good.

34:13I slightly liked his album last year, maybe a little bit better even, but I've really been enjoying Glaive. and he has brought my Spotify age down to where it is. Wait, William likes Glaive? William is so obsessed with Glaive. We just got his school pictures. He's in fifth grade. And his school pictures, he's wearing a Glaive T-shirt. Oh, cool. Which no one would know because all it is is a graphic of a Christian cross and then a dog pooping. Oh, Taylor. So that's what is his fifth grade. He'll be immortalized as a fifth grader wearing that T-shirt. It's amazing. It's amazing. We haven't talked about Lily Allen, though, because I feel like that album is one that everyone is listening to.

34:52That was a moment that I did not see coming. I'll say that. Yeah. I was sort of like, yeah, Lily Allen, big, like, you know, 20 years ago kind of thing. But suddenly this album is, like, all people want to talk about. Oh, my God. And also she's, like, showing up at, like, events on red carpets looking amazing, giving, like, really honest, really charismatic interviews, kind of talking. yeah really sort of I don't know really openly about going through a really difficult time in her marriage turning that into art not really being like I need to make this for me if people connect with it cool but that's kind of not what it's for and it connected with so many people I think she's quite taken aback by the way this album has been received it's like breathtakingly candid right and it's about her the breakup of her marriage the actor David Harbour and like their much publicized house in Brooklyn Heights that was in AD and like There's just so much to grab onto from this album.

35:47So that one is really dominating conversation. Yeah. The Run-Through will be back in a moment.

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36:40And we're back. Do we have Books Corner now? Yes. Chloe? Books Corner. My name is Chloe Shama. I'm a senior features editor. My favorite book of the year, it's impossible to pick one, but I'm going to cheat a little and pick an old book, sort of, which is The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, which did come out this year. It came out in January, so very early in the year. And Mavis Gallant was this amazing Canadian short story writer from the middle part of the 20th century and extremely underappreciated. And this book is just like a stellar collection of some of her incredible, most amazing work.

37:17Hi, I'm Corey Seymour, a senior editor here at Vogue. And I would love to tell you all about the wonderful poetry I read this year, which was probably a lot and more than anything else. But it didn't come out this year. It came out earlier. And as the sort of semi-official Oasis editor of Vogue, I will say that it is John Robb's Oasis biography called Live Forever. Like everything about Oasis is called Live Forever. The rise, the fall and the resurrection of Oasis. Given this was the summer of Oasis, the reuniting, the tour. John is a musician who was part of a punk band in the 70s called Membranes.

37:57he was with the band during a lot of their formative experiences and he writes about the band from the inside and also places them in this amazing context of their time and their culture both in manchester in the uk and tells what i think is like an otherworldly operatic story of a bunch of sort of hooligans from manchester who came to dominate uh pop culture and put out some of the most memorable music of the 20th century. The book blew my mind. I'd recommend it for anybody who likes music. And obviously, if you're into Oasis, it's an absolute must. I have to say, speaking of the years long, it is crazy that just this year was the, like, Mocker Made Good memoir spate of, like, Barry Diller, Graydon Carter, Keith McNally.

38:50I mean, those are, I don't know if Mocker really makes sense for all of those, but throw that around. We'll fact check that. I read all three of those books and was very, very invested in all of them. I particularly loved Richard E. Grant reading Keith McNally's for the audiobook. And actually, I listened to that while going to Milan for 48 hours for the Lauren Sanchez bridal shoot. So, you know what? Memories interlinked. Talk about a long year. Oh, my. The summer of Lauren Sanchez, really. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that feels like ages ago. But yes, we all lived through that. I also loved Heart the Lover by Lily King.

39:29And I really enjoyed my Grim Bums book about Condé Nast, Empire of the Elite. I read that one too. I'm so glad that Chloe Shama, who is really one of the most avid readers on staff, mentioned the Mavis Gallant collection because I read that entire thing and really delighted in it. Another book that Shama turned me on to is the novel Isola by Allegra Goodman. And it's so good, you guys. It's a 16th century. It's based on the real-life story of a 16th century French woman who is marooned on an island and basically has to—near Canada and has to sort of fight for her life. And it's a literary novel, but it reads like a thriller, a page-turner.

40:11I've given it to a bunch of people, and they have loved it. So I really recommend that. And it's, Allegra Goodman can kind of do anything, I think. And there was the final novel from a thriller writer that's really important to me. Martin Cruz Smith, who died this year, has written this series of novels, mostly set in the Soviet Union and then present-day Russia, starring the Russian investigator Arkady Renko. and the final novel of this series was published this year, Hotel Ukraine and shortly after its publication the news broke of Martin Cruz Smith's death and I loved Hotel Ukraine, I loved the whole series.

40:52One of the interesting things is that the author, Martin Cruz Smith, suffered from Parkinson's disease and he made this really fascinating decision to weave that into the writing about this detective who as he ages and investigates one case after another in Russia, develops Parkinson's disease and that really sort of adds this like emotional layer to the to the storytelling so if you like if you like crime novels or detective novels check out the work of martin crew smith and you start with gorky park which is the first one and so good and also read taylor's story about martin crew smith that he wrote for the site because it's lovely yes please do please do marley marius yeah the broadway baby baby there we go among us well i was trying to think of a b Oh, yeah.

41:36Yes. Well, I mean, I will say there were a lot of things. I did see a good number of things this year. There are certainly things I missed, but I will kind of call out a few of my favorite theater experiences this year. Two happen to be Lincoln Center Theater Productions. I don't think that's a coincidence. I think I love seeing shows in that space. It's just really beautiful. It's always really sort of striking, the sort of production design of those shows. but anyway, the two that I want to call it are one, the revival of Floyd Collins. Actually, maybe this is the first Broadway production of Floyd Collins, which is based on the real-life story of a minor who became trapped underground like 100 years ago.

42:19It became a whole media sensation. Really an unlikely sort of premise for a musical, but Adam Gettle writes like the most beautiful music. I'm so obsessed with his work between this and Light in the Piazza. And yeah, there was just a quite sort of thrilling production of that on Broadway this year, starring Jeremy Jordan and also the indie musical artist Lizzie McAlpine making her Broadway debut. And her voice is so incredible. It sounded so incredible doing that music. So kind of a lot of yodeling in that score. So like, that was cool. I was like, to my mom, I was like, I don't know, like, that was necessarily for you, but it was for me.

42:57So that was a huge, that was a production that I don't know that enough people saw, but that was on. Another kind of more crowd-pleasing one was Old Friends. This was pretty much a Sondheim musical review starring Brindette Peters and Lea Salonga. That was for the true heads, and honestly, I was living. It was a lot of, it was kind of a lot of greatest hits from Sondheim's rapporteur, really, getting to hear some of like our best performers do that material was really fun. Also, Langen Center Theater, this is still on Ragtime. Oh, I want to see Ragtime. I want to see Ragtime and Weir. Oh, two ends of the theatrical spectrum.

43:40This girl can do it all well. Get you a girl who can see both. Really crazy things happening. Ragtime sounds incredible. Cast is amazing. I mean, Joshua Henry, one of the greatest voices on Broadway. He's paired with Nichelle Lewis, who is in the recent revival of The Wiz. And I interviewed her in Pittsburgh like a year and a half ago when she was preparing to do that production. And she's like so sweet and has such a beautiful voice. Lots of other people in that cast. Brennan Yaronowitz, Casey Levy. It's like quite striking. The opening number is insane. It'll give you chills. Yeah. And another thing I saw this year that was, like, quite small, it was in this part of New York City Center that I'd never been in before.

44:30It's this tiny, essentially black box theater, kind of underground below, like, the huge theater where everyone sees, you know, lots of things all year. It was called We Had a World, written by Joshua Harmon. It's kind of a memory play. Oh, I love Joanna Gleason. That was what I was doing. My childhood neighbor. Literally, I interviewed Joanna Gleason about this show, and I was like, I know Chloe. She was like, wow, love Chloe. I've known Chloe since she was like 11. I was like, oh my God, tell me more. But yeah, that was just a sort of sweet, small show. It was very New York. It was very much about like growing up in New York, learning about art, having a relationship, about the playwright relationship with his mom and his grandmother.

45:10And it was just a, yeah, sort of special little piece of theater in quite a crowded year. So those were just a couple. All right. Right. Now, I want to talk about people we've lost this year because I do think that is a cultural part of our cultural conversation. The universe of a man, Tom Stoppard, which I really feel is a big, a huge gap in the theater and literary world. Really, I feel like Leopold's dad was just last year. Totally. Was it? It was recently. for sure. But yes, I was very sad about Tom Stoppard. Obviously, Diane Keaton was also a big, a big loss. Brian Wilson, big Beach Boys fan.

46:01Oh, gosh, yeah. David Lynch. I mean, these were all this year. It's crazy. D 'Angelo. Robert Redford was this year too. Robert Redford. Crazy. Really big ones for Marley Marius. Oh, my God. Yeah. All my childhood heroes. I know. One fell swoop. Crazy. I also want to talk about, like, I feel like it was also the year of Schadenfreude. Oh, okay. Like. Say more. Yeah, say more. Like, I feel like we were obsessed with the Louvre heist. Of, like, how could this happen? How could this go wrong? Totally. And also the Coldplay kiss cam. Oh, God. Do you remember how collectively obsessed we were by that?

46:38Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, even Liz Annuziegate, we don't have to say more, but, like, we are, as a culture, really focused on people going through it. Yeah. People going through it. And this 2025 was really the year of that. Big focus on it. I would also like to say that the Frick reopening was a big deal for me and Marley, who went to the press preview together in her Frick baseball hat. Night of the year. For you too. Pope Leo was a big deal. We've already done that, actually. No, we started with that. We didn't really get into it. And you know what's amazing about Pope Leo? I feel like we were all so fascinated by it because of Conclave.

47:18It was a real life-imdates art. And if you liked Conclave and Pope Leo, you should see La Grazia, which is coming out, which came out on Friday. Paolo Sorrentino's new movie about a president of Italy, not the pope at all, but there is the pope in there. I have not seen it. Back to you, Chloe. Also, like other cultural things, like Le Boo Boo's, a big cultural moment. And also Dubai Chocolate. People are so mean about it now, but I love it. Chloe, no. No, it's a scourge on the culture to buy chocolate. It's by every register, and it's like only$29 for this. Wait, I also just don't understand it.

47:50Like, what is that? Is pistachio gloop in chocolate? It's not good. Gloop? I think it's because it's an existing crunch. I'm allergic to pistachios. Oh, yeah, that's a problem. There you go. No to buy chocolate for Marley. One last question. Yeah. If you had to say one thing you were looking forward to, TV, film, etc. for 2026, Marley Marius, what would it be? Well, we have already discussed industry, and that is at the top of the year. but that is on my mind for sure. You want to know mine? Please. Please. Chloe, what are you looking forward to? The live-action He-Man movie. Okay. Arthur, Albert, and I are so excited about this.

48:29It's the guy from the Anne Hathaway movie. Guy from the... I mean, no one has ever participated in Motherhood more robustly than Chloe Moll. How is he, Tobia 2, by the way? So good. Yeah, there was some kind of breaking news happening, and you were like, sorry, guys, I'm going to be totally unreachable. I'm walking into Zootopia 2 in IMAX, I think you said. Yes, it was. It was thrilling. I was coming out. Yeah, it was crazy. And then I was still trying to reply about Tom Stoppard, and Graham was like, put your phone down. I got to go to Toronto this year, and so I saw some movies that will certainly be coming out in 2026.

49:06And the one that I was so into and I think the folks around here around the table also like is called Wasteman. And it's a sort of prison drama, which does not sound like something that Chloe Maul would like or Marley Marius. But it is starring David Johnson and Tom Blythe, who I think are like – We do like them. Get me Zootopia any day. Those two guys, British actors both, are I think just going to start dominating the sort of male actor-y conversation. Oh, Tom Blythe is also going to be the people we meet on vacation, the adaptation of Emily Henry. So he's going to have a big year in 2020. I'm also excited for the new Murder, She Wrote.

49:43Oh, wait, who's in that? Jamie Lee Curtis? Oh. It's just hot on the heels of Kathy Bates Matlock. Okay.

49:54Here are more of our Vogue editor's favorite culture moments of the year.

50:01I'm Laya Garcia-Furtado, Senior Fashion News Editor at Vogue Runway. And my favorite cultural moment of the year has to be the introduction of a Smashing Pumpkins smoothie at Erewhon. I have not been to Los Angeles to try this smoothie. I do not live there. But I am a, I mean, as a Smashing Pumpkins lover, I can't think of anything that says the world is a vampire more than a$20 golf smoothie introduced by Billy Corgan to the world. And I just love that. I love that this is what 2025 brought for me. I'm Hannah Jackson. I'm a fashion writer. And this year I have been utterly obsessed with Jeremy Allen White's Farmer's Market flower hauls.

50:45And it's inspired this whole other group of celebrities to go to the same farmer's market in Los Angeles and do their own version of what he's doing. So every single week you'll see all of these celebrities like, you know, Jodi Turner-Smith and Macaulay Culkin and Rami Malek yesterday even with arms full of flowers. It's like I can't even imagine how much money that costs. But I'm totally obsessed. It's also my hometown, my childhood farmer's market. So to see that every week on Getty Images has just been an absolute trip. Yeah, there's only one Jeremy Allen White and you can't recreate his magic.

51:27Ciao, I'm Francesca Ragazzi, head of editorial content at Vogue Italia. My favourite moment in culture this year was Yannick Sinner's victory at Wimbledon on July 13. It really helped reshaping a new wave of Italian sports. It really showed something that was considered impossible. It was the first Italian winning at Wimbledon. It shows the triumph of the youth, dedication, hard work, being the best at your job. And after this, everybody in Italy, every single person started playing tennis. And, you know, the best, the sport we were always known for was football. So it reshuffled this. and I think it's such a fresh new image of how you can be a champion, just the best.

52:36And honestly, I thought it was also a great, great beauty moment because we all love our red hat. And, you know, for the imaginary of our country, that was incredible. Hi, this is Christian Allaire, senior fashion writer at Vogue. And my favorite pop culture moment of the year was when Rihanna announced her third pregnancy at the Met Gala. She is the queen of the Met, so naturally she would do it there. She wore this amazing Marc Jacobs black skirt suit with a corset, once again reinterpreting maternity style in her way, and I just thought it was such a fabulous and theatrical way to announce her pregnancy.

53:15Who else would do that than Rihanna? My name is Margo Ambuba. I'm the senior beauty and wellness editor. And my favorite like pop culture bonanza of the year was when darling Sarah Pidgeon first stepped out as Carolyn Beside Kennedy. Actually, she didn't even step out. The first thing we saw was a preview image and it was the very flat interpretation of blonde hair. And so I was able to email, text, send messages through his online website, get a hold of Brad Johns, who was Carolyn Besat Kennedy's colorist when she was the ultimate girl. And he told me about how to actually achieve the look, which is called chunking.

54:02It is a very, very of that time and place style of big chunky highlights. but I had so much fun hearing all of these stories. I did not reveal them all. So more coming soon from Brad. He is so fun. And I also sort of been like, do I want 90s style chunky highlights now? So coming soon.

54:32That's it for The Run Through. See you next week.

54:37The Run-Thru is produced by Chelsea Daniel, Alex DePalma, and Stephanie Kariuki. It's engineered by Pran Bandy and James Yost. It is mixed by Mike Kutchman. Chris Bannon is Conde Nast's head of global audio.

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