Nicole Phelps

What makes you feel like you are making yourselves at home there?

Are you left bank or right bank?

So let's talk about what you're doing.

You have done two shows at Loewe now, and my observations as a person who has watched many years of your shows prior to you getting this creative director's jobs at Loewe is you're having, like, a lot of fun, right?

The Cosimo von Bonin sculptures and the accessories she helped you with this season, and

last season just launching straight out with the incredible color palette and the floor to match at the show venue.

Yes.

You're having fun, right?

Did you approach the job thinking, we're going to bring our Americanness to Loewe?

And this season for fall 2026, there's a real tech element, like a lot of experimenting with new materials.

We are recording this a few weeks in advance, but this episode is going to be airing the day that the winners of the Loewe Craft Prize are being announced in Singapore.

So we should dive into what the Loewe Craft Prize is for the listeners who don't know.

I understand there were over 5,000 applicants.

Yeah.

And the pool of applicants has been cut down to 30.

Yes.

So you, along with other members of the jury, will be in Singapore analyzing this work.

Yes.

What are you going to be looking for?

What are your first impressions, would you say?