Fashion Radio

Lyas, born Elias Medini, is a French fashion commentator and creator based in Paris, known for their quick-witted videos on fashion news, shows and events, but more recently for the fashion week watch parties which bring thousands of members of the public together. He talks to DJ Fat Tony about what the landscape of fashion is like today, and the role music plays in it all for him.

She loves Salem, Addison Rae and Taylor Swift in the same breath. She enjoys Demna’s new Gucci as much as Dilara’s collections. We love Julia Fox almost as much as she loves Selfridges.

Style aspects from the Matrix, mid-00s Kate Moss and forever Vivienne Westwood merge Rose Gay's music inspirations that together, inform the nightclub banger-maker Gray is today. She speaks with DJ Fat Tony sharing formative years in Walthamstow, and where her music goes next.

Drag queen and performer Tiara Skye isn’t just known for her good looks and imitable style, she’s also got the gift of the gab, so much so that she has any Londoner in fits of laughter within seconds of talking to them, no matter how outlandish her questions first appear to be. As a born performer, it would be no surprise then that the likes of Beyonce, The Pussycat Dolls and Britney Spears have helped Skye become the woman she was always meant to be. When it comes to influences, pop first, everything else second.

Madame Debra Shaw wanted to see Paris. So she entered a model competition that enabled her to. In Paris, she walked for Thierry Mugler. Then she channelled Diana Ross in Mahogany for Gianfranco Ferre at Dior. Meeting Alexander McQueen and John Galliano taught Shaw the strategy of moving arms and legs in rhythmic dance. Just make it catwalk. The legendary supermodel used music from Billy Joel, George Michael and A Tribe Called Quest to understand how to sell the product, plus move elegantly throughout her life. Alongside DJ Fat Tony, Debra Shaw recounts how she gave her Princess Bundi, Dorothy Dandridge and Masai goddess catwalk characters from 90s Galliano energy: by controlling their narratives. She also raids Diana’s closet. Listen closer to discover which Diana.

Fashion innovator Norma Kamali listens to the rhythm of life. Her playlist is pre-Giuliani New York, but also New York now. The sounds of chauvanism. And how Kamali edited its irrelevance along her path. She listens to one Etta James song from 1960 on. Then she listened to Etta James on the phone at Walmart. Lately she listens to young people around her. They give her confidence that cultural shifts from music are in good hands. Mostly, Norma Kamali listens to how the universe guides your life. She shares that life, and how AI inspires it lately, with DJ Fat Tony.