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Our interview with Nikki Ogunnaike sure is some nice talking. Nikki—editor-in-chief of Marie Claire and host of the Nice Talk podcast—popped by ahead of New York Fashion Week to politic on shiesty’s for her, buying men’s clothing, Prada sample sales, year of the yap and manifesting this very conversation, who the hell was Marie Claire, women’s issues becoming fashionable in women’s media, to cover or not to cover Melania Trump, hate mail, the role of an EIC in 2025, joining us in the podcasting trenches, influencing and promoting real work on grid, saluting all the Instagram boyfriends, Marie Claire’s Power Play summits, the stress of managing people, publishing Royals content vs. resistance content, print isn’t dead or back it just is, her goat Rhianna and the trial of A$AP Rocky, AI’s role in media, her media diet, the New Right, her latest cover star mogul Alex Cooper, at the end of the day and regardless of by-lines writers are writers, rating Condé Nast and Hearst in a variety of categories having worked at both, lots of Bravo talk, what’s the point of NYFW, personal style should not be a trend and is not that deep, her watch rotation and much more on Nikki Ogunnaike’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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