If you haven’t yet found Bella Freud’s podcast Fashion Neurosis, stop what you’re doing. Each week, Bella, designer and daughter of the painter Lucian Freud, invites a guest to lie on a couch, Freudian-style, and asks them about clothes until the conversation becomes, quietly and inevitably, about everything else. Kate Moss, Zadie Smith, Annie Leibovitz, Helena Bonham Carter. It is one of the most disarmingly intelligent things I’ve listened to in years.
So when I picked up the FT’s How to Spend It a couple of weeks ago and saw the name Freud staring back at me, there was that small, particular pleasure of recognising a family I’d already been orbiting.
The FT’s headline: “Is Jonah Freud’s Reference Point the sexiest library in the world?”
I read on.
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