The Late Dialogues — Special Episode: “The Houses and the Worlds”
Under a sky of planets, between the shadows of the Eiffel Tower and the lights of the Grand Palais, the three great spirits of couture return to speak again.
Later Coco Chanel, Later Yves Saint Laurent, and Later Christian Dior meet with David to reflect on the latest Paris Fashion Week — the shows presented by their own maisons, reimagined by today’s designers.
From Matthieu Blazy’s cosmic debut at Chanel, to Jonathan Anderson’s unifying vision for Dior, to Anthony Vaccarello’s unapologetic precision at Saint Laurent, the conversation explores how heritage becomes invention, how spectacle becomes conscience, and how beauty still resists fatigue.
In an age of acceleration, what remains of elegance, provocation, and theatre? And when luxury becomes language, who is truly being spoken to?
A poetic, informed roundtable on creation, commerce, and the enduring humanity of style.
About The Late Dialogues
We speak often of the past as if it were a museum, a quiet gallery of resolved meanings. But what if the past isn’t still? What if it hums underfoot, murmurs through our language, lingers in the metaphors we didn’t choose but inherited? The past is not past. It is prologue, as Shakespeare wrote — a beginning disguised as an ending. Not a script to be followed, but a cue to enter.
It is from this intuition that The Late Dialogues emerged. They are a simple proposition, and a complex undertaking: what if some of the world’s great thinkers, artists, and rebels — those whose thoughts shaped the weather systems of history — had lived on? Not as museum pieces. Not embalmed in quotation. But as living, thinking, evolving minds. As people who read the 20th and 21st centuries. Who saw the rise of fascism, feminism, nuclear power, algorithms, TikTok. Who had their faiths tested, their theories undone, their hearts broken anew. What would they make of us?