Leïla Slimani

speaker

749 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

Leïla Slimani’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud · Leïla Slimani · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

I want to be a New Yorker.

I'm in Rome.

I want to dress like them, which is weird because at the same time, I like the idea of being different.

I like being visible, but also probably because I immigrate at a very young age.

I have this desire also to belong and to be like the others, that no one will notice that I'm a stranger.

So when I'm in Rome, I want to be like a Roman.

When I'm in Paris, I want people to think that I'm a Parisian.

I don't like the idea of looking like a tourist or looking different.

Maybe it's a little bit snob also, this idea of being like other women, but it's also...

because it makes me feel vulnerable not to understand the fashion and the way they want to look and the way they want to appear.

And I think Roman women are quite elegant.

Yeah, and it's also something that is very childish, this desire to disguise.

And, you know, to put the clothes, and once you have the right outfit, you are the character, right?

You can embody someone else and people will believe it as long as you act well enough.

And I love that this metamorphosis that can happen all the time.

And it's something for me that is really related to women.

You know, I was born and raised by women in a home with my two sisters, my mother, my grandmother, my aunts.

And what fascinated me when I was a child was that women were changing all the time.

Men were very dull and boring because they would always wear suits, gray or blue.

It was not very interesting.

Showing 21–40 of 749 · page 2 of 38