Chloé Radio Returns With 8 Brilliant Guest Speakers

Possibly the chicest broadcaster in the game Chloé Radio is back on the airwaves with a programme chock-full of inspiring speakers. While presiding over the fashion jury at Hyères Festival 2019, creative director Natacha Ramsay-Levi enlisted Charlotte Casiraghi, Camélia Jordana, Camille Bidault Waddington, Élodie Bouchez, Alexia Niedzielski, Sigrid Bouaziz, Jo Ellison and Liya Kebede to join herself and author Pauline Klein for chats on the French Riviera.

During each 20-minute interview, which will be aired on the Apple Podcasts and as a video on IGTV from May 31 to June 2, the questions span life-defining memories and the meaning of femininity. “You can hear moments where they volunteer their vulnerabilities, but then you will also hear inspiring moments of inner strength,” Ramsay-Levi told Vogue of the project, which was born out of the designer’s passion for the medium she perceives as “vital”. “These women know themselves… which I think is very inspiring.”

The first series aired in September to coincide with Chloé’s spring/summer 2019 show at the Maison de la Radio, the headquarters of Radio France in Paris’s 16th arrondissement. The presentation space was Ramsay-Levi’s personal homage to the purveyor of “public culture of a very high standard” – something that set the agenda of family conversations around the kitchen table when she was growing up. The six guests – Clémence Poésy, Houda Benyamina, Ariane Labed, Isabelle Huppert, Leïla Slimani, and Ramsay-Levi – were chosen because they each symbolise Chloé founder Gaby Aghion’s mission to give women the freedom to dare to be themselves.

“I would like to dress women so that they can express their inner strength, not their power,” Ramsay-Levi said about her own first Chloé collection. With her cohort of insightful and honest females, she is continuing to cut through the static and spread the message off the runway, too.