The Doctor Will See You Now

What do Rick Owens, Courtney Cox and Kate Moss have in common? Bella Freud and her fashion therapist couch. Only Bella can pull together an eclectic, megawatt celebrity lineup to her new podcast, given the amount of cred she’s had ever since (we believe) birth. From her slow drawl, to her ‘Gainsburg is God’ viral sweater, Bella helped define Cool Britannia as a designer in the 1990s. She’s also managed to dodge the nepo-baby discourse that would have befallen her when unearthing she’s the great-granddaughter of Sigmund, daughter of painter Lucien, precisely because she has invented much of what “cool” is, the kind of cool most brands have to throw gazillions of cash to attain.

And so - inviting guests to 'lie on the sofa' and join her on her new podcast, Fashion Neurosis feels like a natural next step post her Sunday Stories Instagram series, regaling us of personal stories of style, family and curiosity. Now, As Bella sinks into a leather armchair and her guests recline on a plush cream sofa, the intimate setting allows for mutually revealing conversations, a true feast if you are as nosey as we are! With an intriguing fleet of fashion icons as well as leading cultural figures and all round legends, Fashion Neurosis offers listeners deeply engaging conversation and unique insight with a talk show-cum-therapy session format. 

For her first guest on the podcast, Bella invites design icon Rick Owens to lay on the sofa, and chat childhood, being a rebel, elegance and…the Row! (We love how he discusses a purse he saw at the Row in Mayfair and went back to the store to buy it to keep his pills in. Ah, how the 1% live!)

The stories shared and the curious digressions made stem from the starting point of fashion. Often swatted away as “shallow” Bella instead uses fashion as a lens through which to examine identity, communication and society. Beginning with conversations about personal style and why we wear what we do; the discussion expands and tangents are allowed to wander, touching on unexpected topics such as politics and mental health and landing somewhere completely different to where we initially started. 

So free yourself from the confines of patient confidentiality and instead plug in a pair of headphones and tune into the new series here