The Front Row Season Finale is here — and it’s wrapped in velvet, champagne, and couture.
In this special holiday episode, Audrey Charlyes takes you through the State of Fashion 2025, a mini-editorial recap of the industry’s biggest wins, losses, reinventions, and revelations.
Then, she unwraps Season 1: favorite episodes, unforgettable moments, and the sharpest insights from a year in the front row.
To celebrate the holidays, enjoy a curated Couture Christmas Guide: styling notes, fashion do’s and don’ts, Paris vs New York December aesthetics, luxury gift ideas, and Audrey’s signature New Year’s Eve style commandments.
Elegant, witty, emotional, and festive — this finale closes the season exactly the way fashion should: with heart, taste, and a little sparkle.
Season Two arrives in January. Until then, bonne fête, my loves.
The State of Fashion 2025
Front Row with Audrey Charlyes
This season, fashion didn’t just change — it confessed.
In the Season One Finale of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, Audrey takes you inside the soul of fashion in 2025: the beauty, the burnout, the brilliance and the breaking points.
From creative reinventions to exhausted trends…
From luxury’s identity crisis to style’s emotional comeback…
This episode is not a recap. It’s a reckoning.
What survived the noise?
What lost its magic?
And what are we finally ready to leave behind?
The State of Fashion 2025 is part love letter, part reality check — and a quiet goodbye before something new begins.
Pour the champagne.
Dim the lights.
And take your seat…
front row.
This isn’t just Fashion Week.
This is Africa in Couture Mode.
In this special edition of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, I sat down with Mr. Alan Franck, Program & Designers Director of LA Fashion Week by Elie Kuame for an exclusive conversation on the vision behind this international fashion platform.
We talk about: ✨ Why LA Fashion Week by EK matters
✨ What makes this edition powerful
✨ What designers and guests can expect
✨ How Africa continues to redefine global luxury
And with Olivia Yace as the Godmother of the event, this edition promises elegance, influence and cultural authority.
📍 08–14 December | Centre Culturel Ivoiro-Coréen, Abidjan
🎧 Episode out now on Front Row with Audrey Charlyes
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When Fashion Forgets Fashion: The Spectacle, the Circus & the Soul
Has fashion become more circus than couture?
This week, Audrey explores the rise of the spectacle — the pyrotechnics, the theatrics, the viral-moment obsession — and what happens when the show overshadows the clothes.
From the return of intimate presentations to the quiet rebellion of houses choosing mastery over noise, this episode asks the real question:
What remains when the smoke clears?
A poetic, witty, and razor-sharp dive into the moment fashion rediscovers its soul.
When Fashion Forgets Fashion: The Spectacle, the Circus & the Soul
Has fashion become more circus than couture?
This week, Audrey explores the rise of the spectacle — the pyrotechnics, the theatrics, the viral-moment obsession — and what happens when the show overshadows the clothes.
From the return of intimate presentations to the quiet rebellion of houses choosing mastery over noise, this episode asks the real question:
What remains when the smoke clears?
A poetic, witty, and razor-sharp dive into the moment fashion rediscovers its soul.
The Fashion Industry’s Midlife Crisis: Reinvention, Relevance & Realness
Fashion is having a full-blown identity crisis — and today, we’re unpacking the chaos with a front-row seat. From the creative-director musical chairs to the desperation for relevance, to the algorithm shaping design more than vision ever did… this episode dives into the tension between panic and reinvention.
Why are some houses spiraling while others are silently thriving?
And what does “realness” actually look like in 2025?
Join Audrey as she cuts through the noise with wit, clarity, and couture-level insight.
This is fashion’s midlife crisis — revealed, decoded, and dressed in truth.
The Fashion Industry’s Midlife Crisis: Reinvention, Relevance & Realness
Fashion is having a full-blown identity crisis — and today, we’re unpacking the chaos with a front-row seat. From the creative-director musical chairs to the desperation for relevance, to the algorithm shaping design more than vision ever did… this episode dives into the tension between panic and reinvention.
Why are some houses spiraling while others are silently thriving?
And what does “realness” actually look like in 2025?
Join Audrey as she cuts through the noise with wit, clarity, and couture-level insight.
This is fashion’s midlife crisis — revealed, decoded, and dressed in truth.
Episode 9 — The Illusion of Cool: Where Image, Influence & Reality Collide
In this episode, Audrey peels back the layers of modern cool — from its engineered scarcity to the PR-polished illusions shaping today’s fashion reality.
A witty, insightful sequel to Episode 6 (The Price of Cool), this monologue explores how influence is constructed, how fantasy becomes currency, and why true cool has quietly returned to craftsmanship, meaning and intention.
The Illusion of Cool: Where Image, Influence & Reality Collide
In this episode, Audrey peels back the layers of modern cool — from its engineered scarcity to the PR-polished illusions shaping today’s fashion reality.
A witty, insightful sequel to Episode 6 (The Price of Cool), this monologue explores how influence is constructed, how fantasy becomes currency, and why true cool has quietly returned to craftsmanship, meaning and intention.
In fashion, every stitch tells a story — but who’s writing it? The guardians of tradition or the rebels of reinvention?
This week on Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, I explored the invisible tension that shaped modern style: the dialogue between French couture and American culture.
On one side, the precision of heritage — ateliers glowing with the quiet rhythm of discipline, the language of silk and understatement.
On the other, the energy of attitude — New York’s confidence, Halston’s freedom, the democracy of denim and jersey.
For decades, fashion has waltzed between these two worlds: preservation and disruption, elegance and audacity. Yet it’s in their collision that the real magic happens. When sneakers met silk, the world learned that relevance could be as luxurious as tradition.
Because fashion isn’t just fabric — it’s philosophy. It reflects our origins, our ambitions, and the audacity to evolve without apology.
In the end, couture gives you the dress.
Culture gives you the reason to wear it.
🎧 Listen to Episode 8 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Amazon Music.
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From Paris’s gilded ateliers to New York’s neon nights — Episode 8 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes dives into the eternal duel between heritage and hustle, couture and culture.
Who really shapes fashion — the houses that guard their archives or the streets that rewrite them?
In this 20-minute monologue, I unpack how silk met sneakers, how freedom met formality, and why fashion’s true language is translation.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Amazon Music.
Because fashion isn’t just about what you wear, darling — it’s why you wear it.
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Front Row with Audrey Charlyes – Episode 7: “When Fashion Meets the Muse”
From the marble halls of Art Basel Paris to the glitter storm of Vogue World Hollywood, Audrey Charlyes takes you on a journey where art flirts with fashion — and taste meets spectacle.
In this episode, I explore how luxury performs across continents: Paris selling emotion, Hollywood selling illusion, and fashion standing somewhere in between — a muse with perfect lighting and a social feed to match.
Witty, elegant, and deliciously observant, this episode asks: when fashion meets the muse, who’s really inspiring whom?
🎙️ Front Row with Audrey Charlyes – where couture meets commentary.
From the marble halls of Art Basel Paris to the red-carpet chaos of Vogue World Hollywood 2025, Audrey Charlyes unpacks the thin line between art and spectacle — where one sells legacy and the other sells hashtags.
Expect sweet sarcasm, elegant truths, and the occasional eyebrow raise as she asks the ultimate question: what are we really buying — culture, or content?
🎙 Front Row with Audrey Charlyes — because fashion isn’t just what you wear; it’s what you dare to say about it.
They say style can’t be bought — but cool? That’s another story.
In this episode, Audrey Charlyes takes you behind fashion’s most seductive illusion: the true cost of being cool. From the economics of exclusivity to the quiet vanity of social validation, this is an exploration of how image, identity, and influence intertwine — and what it really means to belong in a world obsessed with appearance.
The Price of Cool — When fashion meets reflection.
This week on Front Row: Confidential Edition, I’m unbuttoning the myth of “cool.”
Because darling, if luxury whispers, cool seduces — and it’s time to ask what we’re really buying.
The lights may fade, but the drama doesn’t. Audrey Charlyes takes you behind the scenes of Fashion Week’s aftermath — where calm meets chaos and secrets spill from the closet. From industry burnout to quiet triumphs and a glance at EE72 Magazine’s latest issue, this episode unwraps fashion’s most human side, one confession at a time.
After the Runway: The Calm, the Chaos, and the Closet Confessions
The lights may fade, but the drama doesn’t. Audrey Charlyes takes you behind the scenes of Fashion Week’s aftermath — where calm meets chaos and secrets spill from the closet. From industry burnout to quiet triumphs and a glance at EE72 Magazine’s latest issue, this episode unwraps fashion’s most human side, one confession at a time.
Paris Takes the Crown: Runways, Rivalries & Revelations
From the grand spectacle of Yves Saint Laurent’s majestic runway to Balenciaga’s unapologetic brilliance, Episode 4 of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes unpacks every glittering highlight of Paris Fashion Week. Audrey dives into the creative director shuffle shaking the industry — from JW Anderson’s poetic Dior takeover to Pierpaolo’s bold new Balenciaga era — and asks: are presentations the new runways? Expect glamour, wit, and that irresistible Front Row sparkle.
This week, I take you behind the scenes of a season that redefined creativity — from Paris to Milan.
We explore the power shifts in fashion’s creative direction, the collections that captivated us, and why some houses are rethinking the very idea of a runway.
Fashion isn’t about spectacle — it’s about evolution, vision, and the art of storytelling through design.
✨ Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and YouTube.
Step inside Milan Fashion Week with me as we unravel Gucci’s bold reinvention, Bottega’s quiet elegance, and Versace’s unapologetic drama. From creative director shake-ups shaking the industry to the Dolce & Gabbana runway moment that brought Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep together—like fashion fiction meeting reality—it’s a week of pure spectacle. Milan didn’t just serve looks; it served a story.