This week, we compare and contrast two figures who loom large in the Corporate Lunch landscape: the mysterious Zack Bia, and the influencer OG Bryanboy. Read Sam's profile of Bia here, and read Rachel on Bryanboy here.

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85: The Influencer Episode

Will joins us for a classic Corporate Lunch episode, in which we tackle the question: how do we actually get dressed now? We’re talking pants, Fear Of God x Zegna, expensive footwear, and the false tailoring-streetwear binary. We also discuss the significance of Raf Simons’s Prada move and whether Virgil Abloh is actually the Karl Lagerfeld for millennials, and close things out with 13 Vibes.

84: Touching Fabrics Trying To Find the Magic

On this week's business-critical episode, Noah, Rachel and Sam are joined by writer (and surfer) Molly Young to discuss key takeaways from "Garbage Language," her Vulture essay about why corporations speak the way they do. We also talk about what it's like to profile designers like Donatella Versace and Riccardo Tisci, Sam's new hair oil, and the power of positive moments.

83: Garbage Podcast with Molly Young

We enter the mind garden of pro skater and Bianca Chandôn don Alex Olson. Noah, Rachel, Sam and Alex discuss skateboarding's relationship to fashion, the virtue of selling out, GOOP, Bianca and Call Me 917, and Alex's radical mindfulness and wellness routine. Read Noah's profile of Alex from the February issue of GQ here.

82: Breath of Fire with Alex Olson

We take stock of Timothee Chalamet’s Oscars non-suit, black tie hair, our complicated relationship to celebrity, velvet blazers, a man named Brad Pitt, bad Hollywood pants, the transformative power of Charvet slippers, and the opera.

81: Hollywood's Biggest Pod

After an overwhelming response to our call for submissions to the Corporate Lunch poetry contest, we read a selection of original works on the topics of fits, fashion, and corporate aesthetics. Noah, Rachel, and Sam also discuss Paris shopping tips and how to cop vintage Hermès scarves.

80: The Content Tower Literary Review

One-legged bodysuits, Miles Davis, crocheted bags, anatomically-curved bags, metatextual elements, emotional tents, booties, attitudinal tailoring, opera pumps, sweater-vest freaks, the dignity of work, and YOHJI YAMAMOTO: Noah, Rachel, and Sam discuss the best Fall-Winter 2020 men's fashion shows they saw this month in Paris, Milan, and Florence. Read Rachel's full Paris Fashion Week coverage here. Read Sam's dispatches from Pitti Uomo here.

79: Fashion Week Blitz

Noah, Rachel, and Sam discuss the decade where fashion became pop culture, and debate Virgil Abloh’s prediction that streetwear will die in the 2020s.

78: 2020 Fashion Predictions

Noah, Rachel, and Sam are back and diving into the Instagram DM mailbag once again to answer your burning questions such as: How do you dress for super cold winter days? Are there any counterculture brands left? What are the best loafers at every price point? Is it inconsiderate to wear a killer fit to a funeral? And many more.

77: Ask Corporate Lunch Pt. II

This week, the crew that brought you episodes about Hanging Out and Walking present: The Relaxation Episode. Noah, Rachel, and Sam discuss relaxed fits and other secrets to relaxation, and debate whether it's possible to relax too hard.

76: The Relaxation Episode

Noah, Rachel, and Sam discuss Peter Luger, food and the personal brand, our favorite restaurants, and Wegmans. Plus, we drop our Grub Street diets.

75: Fine Dining

This week, Will, Noah, Rachel, and Sam discuss Pharrell's legacy as The Source, his journey to the cover of GQ's New Masculinity Issue, and the response to that cover. We also talk Kanye's incredible new a̶l̶b̶u̶m̶ tribute to Rick Owens, and how Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller is bringing a sense of glamour and fantasy to menswear.

74: The New Masculinity Episode

In this special episode Noah, Rachel, and Sam drop their fall content recommendations: the art, films, music, and books to get involved in this season.

73: The Fall Culture Guide

This week, Will joins Noah and Sam to drop a major fall fits preview and talk about shooting the coolest man alive, Brad Pitt, for GQ's October issue. GQ x BP: https://www.gq.com/story/brad-pitt-cover-profile-october-2019

72: Fall Fit Check

This week, Noah, Rachel and Sam talk address the walk that changed everything: Leon Dame's earth-shaking stomp on the Margiela runway. We explain why everyone is freaking out about Dame's walk, discuss the movement director who invented it, and  talk about the history and importance of walking in fashion. The walk: https://www.instagram.com/p/B23XDwRg--G/ Rachel on Pat Boguslawski: https://www.gq.com/story/maison-margiela-walk The OTHER walk: https://www.instagram.com/p/z5Te1PKc5N/

71: The Walking Episode

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