LADY'S After Hours

After a little hiatus, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with the president of the Estate of Richard Bernstein, Rory Trifon. Known for his saturated, highly glamorous covers for Interview magazine, Richard Bernstein was born in New York in 1939; he passed away from AIDs-related complications in 2002. Richard created the cover for every Interview magazine up until Warhol's death in 1987—a prodigious volume of work that serves as an archive of 1970s and 1980s celebrity culture. In the late 1970s, Richard Bernstein became friends with Grace Jones, helping to mold her visual identity as she first emerged as a singer. The duo continued to work together for many years. Richard was also an early innovator in digital art. Rory is Richard's nephew and the one entrusted with maintaining and carrying forward his legacy. In our conversation, he provides a short biography of Richard, his artistic career and relationship with Andy Warhol. We then speak about what is like to run an artist's estate, what it entails, and the process of archiving. Rory was instrumental in the creation of a coffee table book on Richard, Starmaker, which was published by Rizzoli in 2018; he has also loaned Richard's work to numerous museum exhibitions and collaborated with a number of fashion and interiors brands. To sign up for our newsletter, visit https://laurakitty.substack.com/ For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/ episode-31-richard-bernstein-estate Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Rory Trifon

Returning for a new season, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with fashion designer, actress and model Edina Ronay. Born in Budapest to a family of successful restaurateurs, Edina Ronay fled to London with her parents after the war. There her father opened a restaurant and then founded what became a very successful and influential series of guidebooks, starting with Egon Ronay's Guide to British Eateries in 1957. As a teen Edina became an actress, appearing in a number of cult British films. She was a key member of the hip London scene and dated Michael Caine before she met her husband, photographer Dick Polak. With him, she lived in Morocco and Formentera, until they returned to London to act, model and have children. In the early 1970s Edina began selling vintage clothes. This led to her starting a knitwear label based on vintage knitting patterns, which eventually grew into her own fashion label. Edina Ronay showed at London Fashion Week and was sold all over the world. Throughout her career, she was at the center of swinging and creative London. We cover all of this and more, including her over 50-year marriage, motherhood and spirituality. To sign up for our newsletter, visit https://laurakitty.substack.com/ For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-30-edina-ronay Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms 
 Featured Guest Edina Ronay

Returning for a new season, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with photographer Susan Wood. Susan Wood is a New Yorker born and bred. She started her career in the early 1950s, working in the lab at LIFE magazine before having her first photo published in Harper's Bazaar in 1955. Over the subsequent decades Susan photographed for everyone and truly across all genres. Fashion, interiors, portraits, food, travel, crafts, documentary, and movie stills—Susan did it all at a time when there were very few female photographers in the industry. Among the magazines she worked for were Vogue, New York Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, People, LOOK, Good Housekeeping, and Glamour. We discuss her 60 year career, what it was like working as a female photographer at that time, her creative process, the many famous people she has photographed and much more. To sign up for our newsletter, visit https://laurakitty.substack.com/ For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-29-susan-wood Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms 
Featured Guest Susan Wood

Hugo Vickers is a writer, historian and broadcaster who discovered his interest in history and the royal family while still at school. He is the author of many books about the royal family, the British aristocracy, Cecil Beaton and other related topics. In his twenties he began researching a famed beauty he had seen mentioned in a book as a teenager—according to all reports she had disappeared but Hugo found her living in a geriatric psych ward. Thus began the several year process of interviewing her and researching Gladys' life as the Duchess of Marlborough—his biography of her was published in 1979 to much acclaim. This book led to a request from Cecil Beaton to write his biography, followed by books about Garbo, Vivien Leigh, and many members of the royal family. After quickly establishing himself as an expert on all matters to do with the royal family, Hugo made his first appearance as a royal commentator during Charles and Diana's wedding in 1981. Since then he has become one of the most well-known and highly regarded in the UK. A fount of information on a world that has largely disappeared, he joins host Laura McLaws Helms to discuss how his interests became his career, how he approaches writing and research, the royal family and more. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-28-hugo-vickers Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms 
Featured Guest Hugo Vickers

Shirley Lord is a journalist, beauty editor and expert, and novelist, who rose from working-class Cockney lass to one of the most influential people in the beauty industry through grit, good humor, and a passion for journalism. A features editor for a British women's magazine by age 24, three years later she married the carpet tycoon Cyril Lord. Weaving easily between high-class entertaining and a high-powered career, Shirley worked for British Harper's Bazaar and the Evening Standard in London before leaving her marriage in the early 1970s to move to New York. After a stint as beauty director of Harper's Bazaar, she became beauty editor of Vogue—a job that she would have in some capacity for most of the next 40 years, only leaving briefly to be vice president of Helena Rubinstein. In the 1980s she married Abe Rosenthal, the legendary editor of the New York Times—they were together until his death in 2011. Shirley Lord has written two beauty books as well as several novels drawing on her deep knowledge of the glamorous fashion and beauty industries. Truly a woman who self-created her life, she joins host Laura McLaws Helms to discuss her journalism career, her five marriages, and all things beauty. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-26-shirley-lord Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms 
 Featured Guest Shirley Lord

This week on Sighs & Whispers, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with fashion designer, actress, writer and all-around creative Tere Tereba. As a teenager Tereba began designing for Arpeja, the largest LA-based multi-brand fashion company who owned Young Edwardian, Young Innocent and many others. Quickly making a name for herself, over the next twenty years Tereba designed for all of the major Los Angeles fashion companies (including Malibu Media and Jody T.), before starting her own eponymous high-end line in the late 1980s. Alongside her high-powered fashion design career, Tere maintained a very busy social life among the upper echelons of the film and art worlds—good friends with the likes of Andy Warhol, she also spent a lot of time in Paris and Rome in the 1970s with the crème de la crème of the European movie world. After many years of friendship she acted in Andy Warhol's Bad in 1977. After ten years of research, her book on a notorious gangster (Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster) was published in 2012. For full show notes, video clips, and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-26-tere-tereba Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms 
Featured Guest Tere Tereba

Meryl Meisler is an acclaimed photographer known for her street and documentary work. Meisler began photographing in the mid-70s, focusing on the Jewish community in her hometown on Long Island as well as the nightlife scene in NYC. After becoming an art and photography teacher at a public school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, she continued to shoot the world and people around her. Following her retirement in 2007 that she began to delve into her old, boxed-up contact sheets and negatives—revealing a New York that was long gone, captured in a totally individual and unique manner. Since then Meisler's photographic career has had a renaissance; publishing three books of her photographs—centering mostly on Bushwick, disco and Long Island suburbia—and has participated in countless gallery exhibitions. She joins host Laura McLaws Helms to discuss her childhood, NYC in the 70s and 80s, her creative process, balancing a full-time job and her creative pursuits, and her future projects. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-25-meryl-meisler Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms 
Featured Guest Meryl Meisler

Carole Bell Ford is an educator, historian and writer. Born to Jewish immigrant parents in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1934, Carole's choices led her away from the narrow options available to her in Brownsville at the time, eventually leading her to get her master's and her doctorate, live in Europe, start writing and launch a whole new career. For many years she worked at Empire State College, a SUNY school for adult students that is centered on individualized study—there she taught in addition to developing curriculum and special programs. She started a second whole career after retirement and has since published four books. She joins host Laura McLaws Helms to discuss the Brownsville of her childhood, the opening up of women's lives and options in the last 70 years, her careers and relationships, the appeal of oral history, road trips and more. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-24-carole-bell-ford Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Carole Bell Ford

Penny Arcade is a performance artist and provocateur. “A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York Play-House of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol's Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art.” She joins host Laura McLaws Helms to discuss the winding road of her life, family history, artistic influences, becoming a performance artist, her personal life and healing journey, in addition to her thoughts about New York and American culture at the moment. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/episode-23-penny-arcade Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Penny Arcade

Charlie Morrow is a sound artist, composer, musician, producer, conceptualist, performer, magazine editor and former jingle writer. He joins host Laura McLaws Helms to discuss all aspects of his life, work and creative process. A true multi-hat, his creative projects have included chanting and healing works, museum and gallery installations, large-scale festival events, radio and TV broadcasts, film soundtracks, advertising jingles and commercial soundscapes. Among his many projects he organized a Summer Solstice celebration annually in NYC from 1973 to 1989. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/ episode-22-charlie-morrow Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Charlie Morrow

Barbara Nessim is an artist, teacher, and creative visionary. She joins host Laura McLaws Helms to discuss all aspects of her life, work and creative process. From the personal—her childhood in a Jewish neighborhood in the 1940 and 50s, through life as a single woman making her way in New York in the 60s and 70s, a later marriage and her decision not to have children—to the artistic—her inspirations, mentors, how she developed her unique and instantly recognizable style, her early adoption of computer art and more. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://sighswhispers.com/ episode-21-barbara-nessim Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Barbara Nessim

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with dancer, choreographer and director Martha Clarke—known for transcending dance and theater to make deeply evocative moving spectacles of beauty steeped in history. After studying at Julliard, dancing with Anna Sokolow’s company, having a baby and moving to Rome, Clarke became a founding member of the highly innovative dance troupe Pilobolus in 1971. Her own work from 1980 on was noted for its dreamlike quality—nonlinear, they invite the viewer into an illusory world of fantasy. The most famous of her works is 1984's The Garden of Earthly Delights. A wonderful introduction to Martha Clarke as well as an in-depth exploration into her remarkable life and oeuvre. Marriage, love, children, family, friendships, and collaborative working relationships—she speaks openly about all of these subjects, in addition to elucidating her creative process and the meanings behind her works. For full show notes, video clips, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to ladyworld.tv/after-hours-martha-clarke Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Martha Clarke

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with Veronica Vera. Opening up about her multifaceted career as a sex journalist, porn star, erotic model, prostitutes’ rights activist, co-founder of the first porn star support group, and the head of the world’s first cross-dressing academy, Veronica is incredibly insightful about the effect that her sexual awakening had on her life and choices. This intimate conversation covers everything—love, sex, porn, the creative process, writing, art, New York from the 1960s to now, AIDs, death and friendship. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of photographs, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-veronica-vera Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Veronica Vera

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with photographer and filmmaker Robert Farber. Rising to prominence as a nude and fashion photographer in the mid-to-late 1970s, Farber is known for his signature soft focus aesthetic which he developed by experimenting with different films, filters and development processes with the goal of creating a painterly effect on film. With an innovative approach that produced atmospheric images tinged with nostalgia, since 1976 Farber has balanced highly successful careers in both the fine art and commercial photography worlds. A must listen for anyone interested in photography, Robert shares openly about his life, creative process and the many paths his career has taken. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-robert-farber Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Robert Farber

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with makeup artist, hairstylist, interior decorator and gallery owner Rick Gillette. Passionate about beauty and transformation, Rick arrived in NYC in the late 1960s. In great detail, Rick vividly brings to life the many worlds of New York—from downtown hip salons to luxury fashion magazines to the gay scene. Soon a star makeup artist and hairstylist, Rick was a favorite with famous photographers like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. In the late 1980s he shifted his career to photography, before later focusing on interior design. Since 2013 he has run a gallery in the town of Hudson in upstate New York, which combines fine art, lighting, and furniture in a light-filled 3000 sq. foot space, perfectly curated by Rick. A must listen for anyone interested in the fashion world of the 1960s through 90s, and for anyone interested in beauty (in all of its manifestations). For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-rick-gillette Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Rick Gillette

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with illustrator and doll creator Mel Odom. An acclaimed illustrator known for utterly captivating and totally unique drawings suffused with a beauty and mystery that were unmatched, Mel worked extensively in the 1970s and 1980s for publications like Playboy, Time, Viva, OMNI, and Blue Boy. In 1995 he launched his labor of love—Gene Marshall, a fashion doll based on classic Hollywood starlets, who took the toy world by storm. Now focused primarily on painting, Mel is a total Southern gentleman and a joy to speak with. A must listen for anyone interested in art, New York in the 1970s and 80s, the gay experience during the early years of AIDs, and dolls. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-mel-odom Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Mel Odom

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with photographer and filmmaker Willie Christie. A wonderfully gossipy conversation, Willie discusses his career from photo assistant to photographer to commercial director to screenwriter to today. Full of interesting stories and memories about his time as a fashion photographer in the 1970s when he was married to Grace Coddington and shooting primarily for British Vogue, Willie then went on to direct videos for Pink Floyd and have a highly successful commercial directing career that spanned decades. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-willie-christie Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Willie Christie

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with make-up artist Barbara Daly. Barbara’s long and illustrious career includes working with such photographic greats as Helmut Newton, Barry Lategan and Norman Parkinson, in addition to designing the makeup looks for two of Stanley Kubrick’s films, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘Barry Lyndon.’ She then went on to found her own beauty school and launch two cosmetics brands, but her most famous work was doing Princess Diana’s make-up on her wedding day in 1981. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-barbara-daly Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Barbara Daly

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with acclaimed photographer Tony Vaccaro. Now 96, Tony Vaccaro is a legend in the photography world. Drafted into WWII at age 20, he brought his 35 mm camera with him to the frontlines in Europe—vividly capturing all aspects of an infantryman’s life: the chaos, the boredom, the destruction, the death. Tony stayed on in Europe after the war, documenting the reconstruction, before returning to New York where he established himself as a very in-demand fashion and celebrity photographer for Life and Look magazines. To all of his work he brought a love of symmetry and a deep humanity. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-tony-vaccaro Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Tony Vaccaro

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with acclaimed fashion journalist Marylou Luther. Opening up about her seven decades writing about fashion, Marylou discusses her leap from small-town Nebraska to covering fashion for the Des Moines Register, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times and McCall’s, meeting Christian Dior, her friendship with Edith Head, and how she balanced a strong family life with a fast-paced career. For full show notes, episode resources and more about Marylou, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-marylou-luther Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Marylou Luther

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with graphic artist David Lance Goines. Incredibly multi-talented, Goines is an artist, calligrapher, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author, yet he probably best known for the posters he illustrated for local Berkeley businesses, which have been reproduced and sold worldwide. Most notably would be the work he has done for the legendary Chez Panisse, which was opened by his former girlfriend Alice Waters—his book covers and annual posters for the restaurant helped define the visual identity of it for food lovers around the globe, in much the same way his other posters have created the visual identity of Berkeley. Goines first moved there to study Classics at UC Berkeley but was expelled in 1964 for his part in the Free Speech movement. A passionate activist and artist, Goines intimately discusses how passion, community and a lack of fear have aided him in creating a very long career doing what he loves. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-david-lance-goines Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest David Lance Goines

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with pop artist Mel Ramos. Sacramento native Mel Ramos was a progenitor of the pop art movement in the early 1960s – alongside his friends and contemporaries Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, he was one of the first artists to use comic book illustrations in his art. Ramos gained fame and notoriety for his paintings that combined commercial goods and idealized female nudes. Still creating these “commercial pin-ups” at age 82, in this discussion Ramos reflects on his long career as an artist and professor, his inspirations and creative process, and his family life. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-mel-ramos Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Mel Ramos

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with graphic artist Sandy Dvore. Originally from Chicago, Sandy Dvore left advertising to move to LA to become an actor in the early 1960s. Several years of failure and a chance encounter resulted in him becoming a highly successful graphic artist in the entertainment world. For many years the highly coveted back pages of The Hollywood Reporter and Variety were reserved for his vibrantly illustrated ads that broadcast the latest news for the megastars of cinema and music. From there, he became a sought after titles designer for films and television. His opening credits for television shows helped shape American culture in the 1970s and 1980s—a few examples include The Partridge Family, The Waltons, and The Young & the Restless. In this deep, intimate discussion, we discuss his rags-to-riches story, the aftereffects of computers ending his career, loneliness and searching for creativity in the face of depression. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-sandy-dvore Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Sandy Dvore

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with model, actress and yogi Ingrid Boulting. One of the most memorable models of the late 1960s and 1970s, Ingrid Boulting was raised in South Africa and England. Starting as a ballerina she fell into fashion, where she became a favorite of Richard Avedon, David Bailey and Sarah Moon, and appeared in Vogue (all international editions), Harper’s Bazaar, Seventeen and many other magazines and ad campaigns. In 1976 she starred alongside Robert DeNiro in the movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel, 'The Last Tycoon' in 1976. Throughout this period she studied meditation and yoga as a method of grounding herself, and later moved to Ojai, California, where she became a yoga teacher and opened her own studio. In this deep, intimate discussion, we discuss the projections placed on her due to her beauty, healing through yoga and shadow work, and, of course, her experiences in fashion and films. Behind the striking girl in the fashion photographs lies a far more interesting and complex woman. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-ingrid-boulting Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Ingrid Boulting

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with fashion designer Anna Sui. Born in Detroit in 1952, from a young age Sui became obsessed with fashion, music and New York. Sui achieved her dream when she moved to NYC to study fashion design at Parsons, but left after two years to work as an assistant designer at a juniors’ sportswear label. In 1980 she started her own company with $300. With the help of best friends Steven Meisel and Paul Cavaco, Sui launched herself into the fashion stratosphere in 1991 with her supermodel-heavy first runway show. In 1992 Sui opened her first store and won the CFDA Perry Ellis award for new talent. Sell-out collections at the major department stores and celebrity endorsements from such megastars as Madonna led to more stores, diffusion lines, perfumes and a makeup collection. Anna speaks openly about her slow road to “overnight success” and the business deals and collaborations that allowed her to expand her empire and to maintain control privately of her company. A fascinating interview for anyone interested in the inspiration, research, hard work and business behind the clothes you wear. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-anna-sui Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Anna Sui

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with photographer and filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg. Originally from the Bronx, Jerry became intrigued with photography while working at his family’s fur business after WWII. He started as a photographer’s assistant in the mid 1950s, before striking out on his own and shooting for Vogue by the end of the decade. Perfectly placed and well-suited to document the pop culture shifts of the Sixties, Schatzberg photographed such luminaries as the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan while also hosting raucous parties for them at his studio. As celebrated as his subjects, Jerry appeared often in the gossip columns as a “man about town” especially once he became part owner in two of the hippest nightclubs in town—Ondine and Salvation—and was engaged to Faye Dunaway. Breaking into moviemaking in 1970, he won the top prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for his third film, Scarecrow. Attracted by offbeat characters and unconventional plots, Jerry was part of a new auteur movement in 1970s Hollywood. He directed over a dozen films over the following decades, and now in his nineties he continues to write scripts and produce exhibitions and books of his photographs. Inspiring as a creator of photographs and films, Jerry Schatzberg is equally as inspiring for his thoughts, perspectives and passion for life. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-jerry-schatzberg Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Jerry Schatzberg

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with fashion designer Vicky Tiel. Vicky Tiel started designing clothes as a pre-teen before studying fashion at Parsons in New York. Alongside her college friend, Mia Fonssagrives, she moved to Paris at age 20 in 1964, where they quickly became the toast of the town. Snapped up to be costume designers on the film ‘What’s New Pussycat?’, they met Elizabeth Taylor at the studio—she became a client, friend and investor in their company. Mia-Vicky opened their first store in 1968 at 21 Rue Bonaparte; Vicky maintained a shop in that location for over four decades. Tiel married Elizabeth Taylor’s makeup man and spent several years traveling the world with the Burtons, while also designing youthful fashions that captured the essence of the “Swingin’ Sixties.” She went on help establish the couture salon at Bergdorf Goodman in 1981 and design the red ball gown Julia Roberts wore in ‘Pretty Woman.’ For the last few years, Tiel has focused on her perfume lines, which she primarily sells on HSN. A natural confidante, she provides advice for women on love, life and beauty. Full of enthusiasm, Vicky is a delight—she’s an intriguing mix of a keen businesswoman, a hopeless romantic and a great girlfriend that you want to dish all your troubles to. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-vicky-tiel Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Vicky Tiel

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with model, Playboy Playmate and journalist Marilyn Cole Lownes. From a small seaside town in England, Marilyn got her break as a Bunny at the Playboy Club in London in 1971 before becoming the January 1972 Playmate of the Month and 1973's Playmate of the Year. A notorious beauty, she enjoyed the finest excesses of the 1970s before settling down with her longtime on/off love, Playboy executive Victor Lownes, in 1984. She discusses how passion inspired the course of her life (taking her from modeling to journalism and tango), Playboy now and then, and what is was like to be the first full frontal centerfold. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-marilyn-cole Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Marilyn Cole Lownes

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with legendary television producer Russell Morash and his wife, Marian Morash. Working at WGBH in Boston since 1957, Russell Morash’s programs have been integral to the success of PBS – he produced Julia Child’s ‘The French Chef’ and ‘The Advocates,’ before creating ‘The Victory Garden,’ ‘This Old House’ and ‘The New Yankee Workshop.’ Marian learned to cook from Julia, ran a successful restaurant in Nantucket and became “Chef Marian” on ‘The Victory Garden.’ Russell Morash is the winner of 14 Daytime Emmy’s and the recipient of the 2014 Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award. Together they discuss how they created a long, beautiful and happy life out of following their passions. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/ after-hours-russell-and-marian-morash Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guests Russell and Marian Morash

This week on LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms meets with legendary fashion designer Norma Kamali. Opening up about her life, work and creative process, Norma is incredibly insightful about the choices and decisions she has made throughout her career in order to maintain her independence in the fashion industry and also discusses what continues to inspire her after fifty years designing. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of Norma’s designs, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-norma-kamali Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Norma Kamali

On this first episode of the relaunched LADY’s After Hours, fashion and cultural historian Laura McLaws Helms sits down with renowned photographer Duane Michals. An incredibly prolific artist, he has been shooting since 1958 and continues to produce new work across a range of different media. In a sprawling conversation, we discuss his life, career and creative process. Just like his work, Duane is immensely engaging, funny, melancholy, serious and loving. For full show notes, episode resources and a slideshow of Duane’s images, head to https://ladyworld.tv/after-hours-duane-michals Produced and hosted by Laura McLaws Helms Featured Guest Duane Michals

Sit in on controversial artist Richard Kern’s AFTER HOURS conversation with Fabiola Alondra and Jane Harmon of Fortnight Institute. In the wake of "Polarized," their current exhibition of Kern's work (which includes his voyeuristic, 1980's drug-bust films and largely unseen collection of Polaroids), we at LADY were keen to know more about the famously taciturn man behind the camera. Listen in as this theoretical perv discusses his past moonlighting in porn, a demystification of his casting process, and Lydia Lunch. Produced by Savannah Grace Neiggemann Hosted by Jane Harmon + Fabiola Alondra Featured Guest Richard Kern Recorded by Know-Wave