Rodeo Drive – The Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

For over 100 years Women’s Wear Daily has been the bible for the fashion industry, and its archives include numerous hidden contributions of Black designers and models. Now that history has been gathered in a stunning new book, BLACK IN FASHION, by Tonya Blazio-Licorish and Tara Donaldson, showcasing the indelible influence of Black culture on a global scale.

On Episode 5 of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast, host Lyn Winter spoke with the authors about the book and the revelations they found in the WWD archives.  

“Fashion has a flawed public history because it hasn't included all the voices,” says Blazio-Licorish, also a visual culture historian and editor with PMC Media Archives. “We were always there, and not just there in marginal roles, but in important roles, in roles that were shaping fashion,” adds Donaldson, most recently WWD's executive editor and Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Fairchild Media. 

Dating back as early as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black community was making its mark on clothing and style, from Black dolls for young Black children, early fashion shows, business associations, and fashionable scenes like at The Cotton Club. 

The authors single out early “influencers” such as Josephine Baker, who even had a hosiery color named in her honor, the dancer Katherine Dunham, who was all the rage in 1940s France, and then the Black models, including Pat Cleveland and Bethann Hardison, who shook up global fashion at the famed 1973 Battle of Versailles.

The late André Leon Talley recalled this momentous event in conversation with the authors before his passing. “You could almost just reach out and touch the energy they gave in the air. It was like quiet thunder, and because everyone saw that and felt that at the battle, French designers – Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent – they started wanting black models.”

Black fashion has been intertwined with politics – and BLACK IN FASHION explores how clothing reflected the moment:

“During civil rights, that time was really about respectability politics,” explains Donaldson. “It was coming in your Sunday best, to assert dignity. It was a kind of a polite request for human rights. By the time you get to the 70s, the mood changes, the look changes…then the Black Panther movement, it's more powerful, it's more assertive…You have the leather jackets, you have the turtlenecks, you have the berets. And then we see that evolve even into the 2020s. And there's the branded T-shirts, Black Lives Matter.”

Finally, the story is still unfolding. Black designers are still not getting the high level industry jobs they deserve, argue Blazio-Licorish and Donaldson, and are even ambivalent about being labeled as Black.

So Blazio-Licorish says they finished on a question: “We purposefully left the conversation open to, who's next, who's now, and what do they have to say about where fashion is going to go?”

Season 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 5 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kay Monica Rose

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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Watchmaking may date back two centuries but in the hands of Maximilian Büsser, it has been revived as a contemporary art form. Büsser is the founder of MB&F, or Max Büsser and Friends, which he describes as a “horological concept laboratory.” 

Now MB&F has opened a gallery on Two Rodeo Drive, filled with his collective’s kinetic art and mechanical art devices, like World Sky by Breakfast Studio with whirring discs that spin between functions: camera, mirror, and weather report; and the MB&F’s Architect HM11, inspired by an organic Charles Haertling house in Colorado, and comprising multiple “rooms.”

“We deconstruct traditional, beautiful, high end watchmaking and reconstruct it into sculpture, which gives time,” Büsser tells Lyn Winter, on the latest episode of Rodeo Drive - The Podcast.  

Büsser shares his journey from being a directionless teen in Switzerland to reaching the top of the watch business at Jaeger-LeCoultre and Harry Winston, and then realizing he needed to “find his true north.”  

“I started imagining this fairy tale, I was going to have my own little company, where I would create only what I believed in. I didn't want any investors. I didn't want anybody telling me about growth and profits and all that stuff. It was all about, we're going to create some incredible watchmaking, even though we know there are no clients out there for it.”

Now MB&F has built a strong clientele willing to pay top dollar for the company’s unusual timepieces. But it was not always easy. Büsser reflects on the financial ups and downs, life lessons learned along the way, and the things he wished he had told his father. Finally, he revels in the joy of crafting mechanical instruments with a group of “friends” who share his obsession with “balance wheels,” “perpetual calendars” and other analog components of horology.

Winter closes by asking if there is a future for such an old world craft, and Büsser talks about the appeal of his company’s products to young people.

“MB&F is all about, ‘Live your dreams’. Do whatever you believe in. It is possible. Look at us. It seemed totally impossible, but we managed. And so it resonates strongly with a younger client base, and I love it.”

Season 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, and the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau.

Season 5 Credits:

Executive Producer and Host: Lyn Winter

On behalf of the Rodeo Drive Committee: Kay Monica Rose

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Isabelle Alfonso.

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Rodeo Drive brings out the glamor in people – and their pooches – as leading fashion houses develop lines for pets and the luxury thoroughfare offers the red carpet treatment to canines and their pet parents. 

One of the dogs who might be seen strutting his stuff on Rodeo Drive is Sebastian The Standard, the show-stopping white Standard Poodle who is a fixture on Instagram and has starred in movies including Beyonce’s “Black is King”. “The poodle has always been, for me, my dream dog,” says Allysa Payne, his pet parent and momager. “I think Sebastian looks like Beverly Hills to me.” 

Payne talks to host Pari Ehsan about her line of luxury shoes and handbags, keeping Sebastian camera-ready and why leading fashion houses are so eager to reach the pet market. “More and more couples are deciding to have pets instead of children. And so of course, they spoil them like children, buying them high quality, pet fashion,” says Payne.

The best place to show the latest and greatest looks is on Rodeo Drive, which will offer photo opportunities for visitors and their pets this summer. Field correspondent Jason E.C. Wright learns more about the BOLD Summer Red Carpet Experience from Rodeo Drive Committee President Kathy Gohari. “We are having multiple, experiential photo moments, where you will be on the red carpet and you will be able to have your picture captured and to take something back home to show people that you were the star on Rodeo Drive for the day.” 

The red carpet opportunity will take place every afternoon from July 25 to August 21. It goes hand in hand with The Dreamer experience at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, offering hotel guests the opportunity to live life for a day like the stars. Ehsan got a taste of that experience when she had her hair styled by the famed Léa Journo at her salon inside the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel. Journo shares her amazing life story which began in Paris, France, where she was one of ten children and started cutting hair at age fourteen. On being invited to Los Angeles, she became one of the most sought after stylists in Hollywood, counting Kris Jenner, Britney Spears, Jane Fonda and Jennifer Aniston among her stellar client list. Journo says the secret to her success is finding the beauty in all women. “I always say every woman is beautiful. You just need to look at her very well, find her the right color and find her the right hair. Then she's the queen.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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Fashion used to be separated into womenswear and menswear. Today, it is much more gender fluid. “It's really about a movement of pleasing yourself and being self aware and not you know, hindering who your true self is,” says Vanity Fair Fashion Director Nicole Chapoteau, “And I think clothing is like one of the first ways you can express that.”  

Chapoteau joins host Pari Ehsan for a conversation about her approach to the editorial pages of the magazine, and about dressing and expressing identity – in daily life and on a celebrity photoshoot.

“It is all about personality with a touch of glam and glitz,” explains Chapoteau, adding that people often believe the actor or musician they see performing is that character in real life. At Vanity Fair, the manual for Hollywood and fashion, “you learn about who they are themselves and not the roles they portray.”

Field correspondent Jason E.C. Wright picks up the theme of gender fluidity in fashion on a tour of Two Rodeo Drive with Rodeo Drive Committee President Kathy Gohari. They window-shop at Versace, Shinobi, Porsche Design and Westime.

At Shinobi, for example, says Wright, “their whole concept was, ‘what would James Bond wear on his weekend off’? And what would any of the Bond girls wear from his closet? So the footwear that they source and manufacture in Japan, there's a size available for them as well as a blouson or two to borrow from the boys.”

Whether the vitrine is displaying watches, jewelry, pants suits or bags, fashion has broken away from boundaries, and is available, say Gohari and Wright, to “she or he or they.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

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Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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The Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance, which takes place annually on Father’s Day, shows that fashion and fine cars are inseparable. And racing drivers like Lindsay Brewer agree.

“I race and I enjoy that,” Brewer tells host Pari Ehsan on Rodeo Drive–The Podcast. “But I also can have the full face of makeup and do my hair and look glamorous, because that's what I like to do, too, it doesn’t have to be one or the other.”  

Brewer, who is racing in Indy Pro 2000 and has a social media following of more than three million, opens up to Ehsan about how to beat the boys on the track, and be a serious driver while maintaining a glamorous brand that is essential for building sponsorship. She also previews her new line of unisex, 80s skiwear-inspired clothing. 

Meanwhile, Rodeo Drive-The Podcast Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright goes deep underground to meet Scot Prescott, owner and founder of Auto Vault Storage, a storage and restoration service for some of the finest cars in the world, which in true Bond style, is buried three stories underneath Rodeo Drive. Prescott tours him round his padded garage filled with rare, fast and exotic cars under covers and recounts his journey from New Hampshire, where he was a kid with a dream. 

“I used to dream about coming to California. And once I graduated from high school, I drove out here. I arrived here with $70. And I started washing cars. I bought some equipment. I wanted to become the king of car washing.”

“Every car has a story,” he adds, like the 1934 Rolls-Royce stored there by a woman whose family has owned the car for generations. “The family assigns people to take care of the car, because this car is a family member. And she has been assigned to take care of this car. She lives in California, so the car lives here.”

The Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance was founded in 1993 by the Beverly Hills businessman and Chairman of the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance Bruce Meyer and friends who wanted to raise funds to restore an iconic Beverly Hills fire truck, so they created a Father’s Day car show on Rodeo Drive. Almost three decades later, it has become an institution, but had to put the brakes on during the pandemic. When the Concours returns, Meyer promises it will be ”without a doubt our best show ever,” featuring “an extraordinary display of Rolls-Royces, supercars, antique cars” along with the famed Fire Truck, which will lead the parade.

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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Art and fashion are being redefined by new, creative voices who transcend the old high and low art boundaries. 

“Visual artists were thought to be less serious if they collaborated with fashion brands or if they appeared in fashion magazines, and now you have folks operating in a real post-medium condition,” says the writer, editor and curator Antwaun Sargent, on Episode 5 of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast. “It's really encouraging to see Carrie Mae Weems, for example, just shoot the latest Prada campaign.”

Sargent is the author and curator of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, the acclaimed publication and touring exhibition that is on view at Cleveland Museum of Art through mid-September 2022. He is also a director at Gagosian, a global network of art galleries, and he is currently working on an exhibition developed with the late Virgil Abloh, former artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection. Abloh’s fluidity was influential on the boundaryless creativity today, says Sargent. “One day, one hour, he's designing a dress, the next hour he's designing a sculpture, the next he's making music.”

Sargent talks with host Pari Ehsan about the Abloh show, about the dissolving of boundaries between art and fashion today, and about diversity and inclusion and how to do it authentically. “It's less for me about some stale notion of inclusivity or diversity, and more about allowing folks to fully express themselves in this space that they should have always had a claim to,” he says.

This fluidity between disciplines – art, fashion, food, publishing – is also visible on Rodeo Drive, where luxury brands and fashion houses that once mainly sold clothing now offer curated exhibition and retail spaces and even restaurants. Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright checks out stores including Saint Laurent and its current Rive Droite installation conceived by the house's Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello and exclusive to its Paris and Rodeo Drive boutiques.

Rive Droite features surfboards and furniture made in collaboration with Hervet Manufacturier, along with lighters and playing cards, branded headphones, footwear and bags, vinyl, art and design magazines and books. This really expands on how “the art collector is intersecting in the fashion world and those from the fashion side are collecting objects,” says Wright, adding, “it's a beautiful way of seeing this evolution of the stores being more than just a retail space and a point of experience for the world.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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In a world dominated by fast fashion, Brunello Cucinelli keeps it slow, creating hand-crafted, ultra-luxury womenswear and menswear that elevates the well-being of those who wear his garments and those who make them.

“Beauty is not only in how you dress, but how you behave…making sure that the community benefits from the presence of all of us,” says his daughter Carolina Cucinelli, co-president and co-creative director of the company. She talks with host Pari Ehsan on Episode 4 of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast about the Italian brand and continuing its humanistic philosophy of fashion and social responsibility.

Ms. Cucinelli describes a childhood in Solomeo, the small hamlet that is home to her family and the company headquarters in Umbria, Italy. There she grew up with the artisans who create the one of a kind, exquisitely tailored, heirloom pieces in cashmere, shearling leather and soft cottons. She explains how Brunello Cucinelli invests in the community, through arts, culture and a School of Contemporary Arts and Crafts for a new generation of tailors. This is the definition of sustainability, she says. “I think the younger generation want to buy less, but buy better.”

Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright visits the Brunello Cucinelli boutique on Two Rodeo Drive, taking listeners on an audio tour through the highly-curated retail experience. He describes the calming colors and textures of the interiors and  and furnishings; the silky mens’ jackets and blazers; and the women's Opera collection, featuring cardigans and suits threaded, he says, “with sequins that reflect the light in such a way that you don't notice them immediately. And then it looks like a million cameras have flashed.”

Finally, Carolina Cucinelli explains the company’s attraction to Los Angeles and why they chose two of its architectural landmarks – the Stahl House and the Bradbury Building – for a recent photoshoot. “For us (it) is that perfect union of Solomeo and L.A., because it's a majestic place with a beautiful history.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast and subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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Before Rodeo Drive, there was the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, a magnet for luminaries of film and entertainment since it opened in the roaring twenties. Now the grand dame of luxury hospitality is getting a makeover and that includes a new offering for guests, The Dreamer.

On Episode 3 of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast host Pari Ehsan gets a taste of the experience, when she takes up residence in a newly-remodeled 11th floor suite and meets the longtime celebrity photographer Art Streiber.

“Treat celebrities like real people, and treat real people like celebrities,” says Streiber, who will turn his camera on hotel guests who purchase The Dreamer, which gives them the ultimate Hollywood access: to be the subject of their own private celebrity photo shoot, a chance to shop with stylist Nicole Pollard Bayme, have their hair coiffed by Léa Journo and meet and eat with top chef Wolfgang Puck.

Ehsan and Streiber discuss the enduring appeal of composed, still photography. “The portrait I take of you today is not about today. It is documentary, for 20, 30 years from now,” says Streiber. They also reflect on the art of staging sitters against the architectural backdrop of the hotel, styled after old Europe and now being given a refresh.

Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright talks with the hotel’s current Regional Vice President and General Manager Peter Humig, who is overseeing the renovation, designed by London-based David Collins Studio, with a new palette of soft grays and hints of Art Deco. Humig tells Wright they wanted to hold onto Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel’s glamor, history and excellent service, without being too opulent. “Modern luxury is not how it used to be in the 80s and 90s. Now it's the subtle elegance,” says Humig.

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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The German luxury fashion house MCM got its start during the hedonistic 1970s in Munich, Germany. Now it enters a new era under the leadership of global creative officer Dirk Schönberger. He has revamped the logo, created partnerships with breakthrough artists and is taking the brand into a new realm, the metaverse.

“We're creating virtual worlds instead of big sets for campaign shoots, and creating partnerships with online platforms where you can dress your avatar in our clothes. And this is only the beginning,” he tells host Pari Ehsan, on Episode 2 of Season 3 of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast. “What is really important is to use the metaverse as a space of co-creation,” he adds, saying that today brands need to bring their customers into the design process.

Field Correspondent Jason E.C. Wright visits the MCM flagship store with Kathy Gohari, president of the Rodeo Drive Committee, and together they analyze the updated Stark backpack and München tote as well as the ubiquitous MCM logo, visible on all clothing and accessories, now in both the original Visetos logo and the new Cubic Monogram version created by Schönberger. It appears on fabrics in bold color or subtle shades.

“You're able to turn the brightness meter up and down,” says Wright, who grew up with MCM as part of the hip hop generation. “This is not a revolution. It's an evolution,” says Gohari.

Music is core to MCM’s identity and Ehsan talks with Schönberger about his collaborations with young artists, including Billie Eilish, Missy Elliott and now iann dior. The goal, says Schönberger, is authentic connection with the artists and an attitude and point of view that feels right. “I want disruption. I don't want a conservative point of view. I don't just want to buy a name and connect it to the brand.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

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Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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When Frieze Week in Beverly Hills was unveiled next to the Beverly Hilton, collectors and dealers turned out in high style for the VIP opening, confirming what many already knew: art, fashion and entertainment converge in Beverly Hills.

“Beverly Hills is where the art world meets,” says Jeffrey Deitch, art dealer and curator, referencing the collectors and cognoscenti who mingle in the city’s galleries and restaurants.

On this episode of Rodeo Drive: The Podcast, host Pari Ehsan and field correspondent Jason E.C. Wright explore how art and fashion intersect in the city of Beverly Hills and on Rodeo Drive itself, from public artworks on the street like Robert Graham’s sculpture Torso to creative collaborations between couture houses and artists.

Ehsan sits down with Deitch to discuss what makes the city a magnet for art enthusiasts, and what makes for successful art and fashion collaborations. “We've seen some artist-fashion collaborations that are dead on arrival. But then we've seen others that are just fantastic and inspiring. So some people saw me and my team at the opening of Frieze…all wearing a Kenny Scharf–Dior Men’s collaboration..that's a very good example of an excellent collaboration.”

Wright takes in the scene on Rodeo Drive with Kathy Gohari, President of Rodeo Drive Committee. “I see tourists coming early in the morning before the stores are even open and they're hugging the Torso and taking pictures.…They're not just coming to look at the buildings and the beautiful restaurants and the clothes, but it's the whole environment.”

Season Three of Rodeo Drive – The Podcast is presented by the Rodeo Drive Committee with the support of the City of Beverly Hills, The Hayman Family, Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau, and MCM.

Listen to Rodeo Drive – The Podcast below and subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Watch moments from the series here and on YouTube.

Check back in regularly for what’s next in the series.

Season Three Credits:

Executive Producer: Lyn Winter

Host: Pari Ehsan

Field Correspondent: Jason E.C. Wright

Scriptwriter and Editorial Advisor: Frances Anderton

Editor and Videographer: Hans Fjellestad

Theme music by Brian Banks

Production Assistant: Grace Fuh

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