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Let's get into We've got a ready great show for you tonight. The war in Ukraine is about to go nuclear, the new iPhone can tell you when you've died. And Barack Obama is back in the White House. So let's do these people. That jumps straight into today's headlines. All right, Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. First up, the East cigarette company Jewel has agreed to pay a settlement of nearly half a billion dollars for

marketing their product to teenagers. And obviously this is really bad for the company. Yeah, million dollars. The whole business has just gone up in strawberry flavored smoke. This is great and useful teenagers because now they have half a billion dollars which they can spend on more jewels. Meanwhile, in education, used New York City has announced that students will no longer get snow days and will instead attend classes on zoom. Yes, this is a thing. No snow

days only zoom. Yeah. I mean, luckily this isn't too big of a deal. I know it's sad, but you realize, thanks to climate change in New York's getting snow for what two years max? Now, Yeah, this is basically gonna be Florida with better bagels. That's all it's gonna be. But I do feel bad for these kids, you know, missing out on such a big parts of childhood. I mean like when I was growing up, there was nothing I love more than waking up and checking the TV

for school closings. And then you know, and I'd be like, oh, and then I remember that I grew up in Africa. You idiots. It doesn't snow there. And I give a shirt about you losing snow days. Hell out they hear, you dumb kids. Oh. In sports news, the US Soccer Federation has announced that the women's national team will now get paid the same amount of money as the man. That is right, Gmail soccer players have finally achieved their goal. But you see, ladies, all you have to do is

be literally the best in the world. It's something and someday you too will get paid the same amounts as men who are mediocre at the same job. It is inspiring, is what it is. It is inspired, all right. But let's move on to some of the biggest stories of the day, starting with the war in Ukraine. And yes, it is still going on, even though you put that flag in your profile photo. I know, I thought it would work too. As the war drags on, the fallout

is being felt around the world. Europe is facing skyrocketing energy prices, Africa is still suffering from grain shortages, and America has been forced to part with some of its most beloved missiles. But now everyone is worried that the next fallout from the war could be nuclear. This morning, there are fears the Zapparisian nuclear plant in southern Ukraine is accelerating towards a potential disaster. A report just released by a team of u N watchdog inspectors found seven

pillars of nuclear safety have been significantly compromised. Inspectors who visited the plants say it's security is being undermined by constant shelling and the Russian military equipment on the site. New images of damage caused by shelling at that nuclear power plant near Zapparigia overnight the u n's nuclear watchdog urging Russia and Ukraine to immediately cease all military operations in that area and establish a nuclear safety and security

protection zone around the plant. We're playing with fire and something very, very catastrophic could take place. I don't want to be that guy, but I think this is a lot worse than playing with fire. Okay, there's a nuclear apocalypse. I wish we were playing with fire. He's like, we're playing with fires. Need to like up as analogy game. What's on about the end of human life? And he's like, we're cruising for a bruising here. But yeah, the u N is urging Ukraine and Russia to stop fighting around

Europe's largest nuclear power plants. And at this point, like, what is the UN even for? Huh? Because even I can urge Ukraine and Russia to not fights around a nuclear power plant, the UN should be able to make them stop. But what is the UN dude, please stop? You didn't you know? The UN is? The UN is basically turned into those parents who have no control over their kids, just like Aiden, Aiden, don't kick your brother, okay, okay, Well, don't kick him near the coffee table, all right, kick

him over there. And also this is yet another sign that Vladimir Putin has lost it, because if a nuclear power plant blows up in Ukraine that's next door to Russia, you also screwed. I mean, unless this is what Putin wants. Maybe he wants a nuclear disaster so that he can roll around in a radioactive cloud and turn himself into a like a mutant. You know, I'll just be like hear of new superpower. I am first Russian with the

ability to smile. Let's move on from the technology that could kill us, also the technology that helps us waste time on the toilet, the iPhone. Every year, Apple holds a big conference where they reveal the products that we're all going to buy to try and fill the emptiness in our lives. And there's a lot of suspense for these events because nobody knows in advance what they're gonna say, like, it could just be that the camera is a little better than the last time, or they could announced that

the new iPhone can read your thoughts. But today's conference was somewhere in between. It's the day techies have been waiting for. Apple is announcing its new products. Right at the top is the latest iPhone, the new iPhone fourteen and fourteen plus. Both have larger screens and both are promising longer battery life. Throughout the day, also announced the Apple Watch Series eight. They come in seven colors. The new Watch can track a whole bunch of stuff, including fertility.

The biggest thing happening on the new series A is a temperature sensor that they used for opulation and tracking menstrual cycles, and also crash detection. So if you get into a car crash, it can actually detect that and automatically call emergency services and send them to your location. Yeah, that's right, people, The new iPhone and Apple Watch can automatically detect when you're in a car crash. Because you know how sometimes you're a car crash, but you're like,

am I in a car crash? And the phone is like, yeah, you're in a car crash. I also love how the phone is fine. In that accident, the cars cart and the phone is like, I'll call the cops. Wai yo. Obviously, I'm kidding. What it actually does is if you incapacitated in the car crash, the device will contact emergency services on your behalf, which is a pretty cool feature. Yeah, and if it detects that you're in a fatal accident, it will automatically delete all your pawn in the cloud.

Thank you, Tim Cook, thank you, thank you so much. Now, look, look, I'm all for safety. I'm all for safety, you know. I just I just hope that if I do get into an accident, you know, that me and Syria on the same page. Otherwise I could get a little awkward. Hello, this is Sivor was in a car crash. Thank you so much. ZERI he was distracted because he was looking at his phone while driving. What No, don't snitch Instagram. No, No, that's not true. I wasn't, actually, SERI I wasn't. He's

pretending to move on, you know what. Actually, I'm just gonna die. Nine one one, hang up, I'm just gonna die. I'm just gonna die. I'm fine, I'm don't live fine, Now. The other big feature that Apple announced is that the watch can now track a woman's menstrual cycle, fertility, and ovulation. Yeah, so if you're trying to conceive, it can tell you what time it is. Yeah, imagine that everything, your cycle,

your fertility, and your ovulation. A lot of people are excited about this, and a lot of Republicans heard this and they were like, Parry, that's our job, retract the ladies. What are you doing? Apple? My But enough about Apple, Let's talk about Barack Obama. You guys remember him? Remember him? Was It was a black guy, good speeches, never stole nuclear secrets from the government. It's been more than five years since Obama left office, but earlier today he showed

up at the White House again to retake power. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. He was meant to unveil the painting former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. We're back at the White House, restoring a tradition, unveiling their official White House portraits. Commision, yell, it's my honor invite you both to the stage for the unveiling of

your official portraits. Come on and then you go. I want to thank Sharon Sprung for capturing everything I love about Michelle, her grace, her intelligence, and the fact that she's fine. Cheers all, get a room, mute doo oh, you don't know. Seriously, get a room at the White House and help Biden figuate shut out. Please just get a room. There is so great. I'm not gonna lie. I I am not an art experts. You know, I don't know the difference between Michaelangelo and the other Ninja turtles.

But is going on with the Obama portraits? Like? Why why is he standing in a white void? I don't know, Like what I don't I don't get It looks like he got his portrait taken at the d m V. Why does it look like this? It's just like my license expired. So let's kill two birds with one stone. What is he doing here? No, because these portraits are gonna hang in the White House forever. You understand that

they should look white house like. Look at Michelves. She looks like a movie star painted by a flinch out easts. Obama's looked like they ran out of printed toner for the background. There's there's nothing in the you know, if you ask me, it's It's actually kind of ridiculous that they even do portraits anymore. Just take a picture, right, The only reason they did portraits back then they didn't have technology. Just take a picture of portrait takes so

much time. You're gonna sit there for three hours while they're painting you, and then when they finally done, they're like, okay, now a silly one. Also, it must be it must be really weird to live in a house with portraits of your enemies. Do you ever think about that? Because they hang these in the White House, but you're not in the White House anymore. The first things in the White House probably doesn't roll with you, So you just got enemies in your heart. Like imagine if we had

to do that. Imagine if every one of us were like showing people around your house like this is my actually cheated on me, and this says the guy who beat me up in fifth grade, Brad. He was pretty strong, pretty strong guy. That's what presidents have to do. Obama had to walk down halways looking at George W. Bush's picture. Donald Trump had to sit on the toilet with a portrait of Bill Clinton looking down on him. You know, just like look away, I can't go and I'm being watched.

I can't go it. Why did I put the picture in the bedroom? You know, it would actually be cool. It would be cool if these portraits were alive like in Harry Potter. Yeah, wouldn't that be amazing? Because then if Trump did go back to the White House, Obama's portrait would be there helping him out. Donald, be careful with those documents there are there are classified. Don't don't eat, don't eat while you read them. Donald, You're you're getting

catch up all over them? What's wrong with you? Quick? Quick? The Saudi ambassadors coming hid the documents? No, no, don't don't sell the documents of the sudey ambassador. Come on, Donald, Donald, what what are you doing? God? This bitch is dumb. Oh my god, I can't believe it. All right, that's a good headlines. Fuck. Before we go to a quick break, that's checking on the stock market without very on finance expert Michael Costs. Everybody good to see your mout. So

what's going on? What's happening in the market today? I am crushing it. I mean I am, I'm crushing it so hard. My Apple watch and a notification asking if I was in a car crash. Okay, now I was, but I fled, so it's fine. Okay, So oh I got an h T for you. I got a h T for you as well. So all right, So that's HT short for hot Tip. I like saying HT because it saves me time, but then I kind of have to explain that it's hot tip. May even cost me more time, you know, I may just start going like this,

te te which one do you prefer? Trevor, Um. I just want to know what's happening in the market, okay, cool. Look this is the Apple stock chart since the inception of the company. And why this is important to actually actually before we do this that that story about Jewel, the e cigarette company. Yeah, they took a hit with that half a billion dollars settlement. Look, you can't market two teens all right now. My question though, is how does the Teen Choice Awards get away with it? All right?

Clearly marketing two teens? Okay, this is why I'm the expert. You get it. And speaking of Jewel, Okay, if you're trying to quit, do what I do. Suck on a USB stick Okay, it's no nicotine. I find them all over the office. Okay, let me, let me get to the stock chart. Okay, now this is that. Now they launched these new products, including the Apple, the iPhone fourteen. But you know, hold on one more thing. That the

story about the snow days, kids losing the snow days. Yeah, I know everyone's worried about kids missing school, but it's okay to have a few days off. Look, I'm from Michigan. In the winter, we had so many snow days I barely went to school. And look how good I've done now learned right? See alright, app Apple Apple. These guys are crushing it. But for a really long time they weren't making any money because they were just selling fruit, you know what I mean. And and they're selling it

for like two bucks. And then Steve Jobs comes around. He says, why don't we sell the iPhone for like a thousand bucks? Bang? They start making money, right, Steve Jobs? Is that a incidents that he's named after? The way we all make money? Exactly? All right? So now now let me give you my HT all right, that's hot tip. I call it HD because it saves me time. Yeah, okay, okay, So so what you name your kid will determine their success in life, which is why my son's name is

Powerball Costas. So that's my hotel, Michael Costa. Everybody already great investing advice. Thank you so much. Don't go away because after the break, Dansey Ldek is gonna school us on fashion. I don't want to. That's why you want to helpful. Welcome back to the data show. Today is the beginning of New York Fashion Week. Although based on what you're wearing, I guess you didn't know about it. Oh but how did Neal Fashion Week begin? Well, Daisy

Ltek has the answer. It's New York Fashion Week, the semi annual event when designers show their collections to the world so fast fashion brands can decide which styles to rip off. But unlike wet subway seats, fashion Week hasn't always been in New York institution. It's had a long walk down the runway to get where it is today. It all started in France and the sixte hundreds, which might not surprise you, but back then Paris was very much not known for fashion. The French were about as

stylish as a croc wearing a Fannie pack. At that time, Madrid was actually the fashion capital of the world, and thanks to their tiny tapas, they could actually fit into all the sample sizes. But everything changed for France when Louis was um, you know, King of Fied. Louis turned France into a major power, and he wanted the threats to show it. For him, fashion was essential to the monarchies prestige. I mean, no one wants to be executed

by a guy wearing cargo shorts. Louie's obsession built up France's fashion and textile industry and soon turned Paris into the world center of fashion, which by default made it the world center of cocaine and bitchy gossip as well. It was under Louis that France established the idea of showing fall designs in the spring and spring designs in the fall. So you can thank him for that trendy coat you're wearing in August. Who knew Voper was so hot.

France continued to dominate the fashion industry for centuries until World War Two, when Paris was under German occupation. This grinded their fashion influence to a halt because a no one could come to Paris to shop and be coco channel was too busy banging Nazis to make any clothes. I know, terrible right, But no matter how many times I remind them of this, the boutique still won't give me a discount on a classic flat bag. But Paris's defeat turned out to be a win for the American

fashion industry. The US seized on the opportunity to fill that gap quicker than a forever twenty one dress falls apart the laundry. In ninety three, America held the first fashion Week, or as it was no then press Week, started by a publicist Eleanor Lambert. It launched the careers of designers like Hattie Carnegie, Norman Morrell, and Claire mccartell,

whose claim to fame was inventing sportswear. And by sportswear, I mean any casual clothing, not the athleisure that you wear even though your main exercise is getting a caramel frap in the Starbucks drive through three four oh who state bit is tough. Before Press Week, magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar were really all about European designers. They treated American designers the way they treated the Kardashians. In two thousand ten, they ignore of them, but once press

week started, they treated American fashion like well, the Kardashians. Now, she said she'd eat poop to look good? Should I eat poop? New York Fashion Week became such an institution that fashion capitals like Paris, London and Milan soon added their own versions, and they continue pushing the fashion envelope to this day. You could only get away with severed heads and Milan. If that was on a New York runway,

everyone would just assume it was another murder. As time passed, New York Fashion Week became home of so many seminal moments, like in the fifties when James Scolano's popularized feminine glamour, or Adolpho, who gained fame in the sixties for his emphasis on accessories. And in the seventies, Normacamali introduced the sleeping bag coat. Although if you just wear your kids sleeping bag it looks almost it's good. As styles changed, so did fashion week itself. In the seventies and eighties,

it turned into a NonStop party. Shows were held at nightclubs and celebrities started attending. By the early two thousands, celebs had become a permanent mainstay Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton. Everyone was there and that Hollywood glamour is still present to this day. But what was Larry David doing in the front row? He looked so miserable to be there.

He should have been on the catwalk. Through the years, fashion Week has had different homes in the city, from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center, but the most important place has moved to in recent years is the same place you get all your porn the internet. Shows started live streaming, and designers began inviting bloggers and influencers to events. This all democratized fashion and made it more accessible to the public, or at least that's what I tell my therapist when

we're working through my online shopping addiction time broke. New York Fashion Week hasn't just reflected the changing technology, It's also held a mirror up to society. From designers responding to the Me Too movement to the ongoing fight for more racial diversity on the runway, New York has been the site of progress for trans models, disabled models, embody positivity, which is kind of the least the fashion industry could do after telling women not to eat for the last

hundred years. So now you know everything about New York Fashion Week and how it came to be and how it's changing for the better. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some poop to eat. Here we go. Thank you so much about tune because when we come back, we're gonna be joined by the editor in chief of British Vogue, Edward Enfold. So don't go away. Welcome back to the dat. My guest to my is the editor in chief of British Vogue and European editorial director for Vogue.

He's written a memoir about his remarkable life called A Visible Man. Please welcome Edward ennen Full, Mr Edward Trevor. Trevor, Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you for having me. It's really good to have you here because for so many years I would see you at you know, some of the coolest events. You always like the face of fashion. It's always very intimidating to to speach to you. By the way, you never seen intimidating, I really am every time because you are one of I would say, like

the most prominent voices in the fashion world. Thank you. Like whenever I dress up, I know I've probably done something wrong, but who's going to say anything to me? And then I see you and I'm like, ah, there's Edward. Oh yeah, it's so good. They're very styler. Let's let's let's talk about the book. Let's talk about this this life. Some people know your face, you know from British Vogue. They'll know you for you know, creating some of the

most iconic covers Beyonce for instance, on the cover of Vogue. Um, people have seen you at fashion shows, fashion week, people, people have seen you are everywhere. But a lot of people may not know the story behind the man and I love I love this book talks about it. So let's start with what you do, because I feel like you do everything. Just break break it down a little bit for me, like what is what is Edward into now?

So basically what I do is I'm the editor for British Folk, which means you're really responsible for all the images, all the words in the magazine and perception. Then I'm also editorial director for all the Volks Europe so Italian, French, Germany, Spain, and that involves a lot of phone calls every day. Sleep, so I don't really sleep that's what I That's what I do the lot sleep and you shape what people think. I love that you you you highlight that part. Oftentimes

I'll talk to people about fashion. You know, in the industry, people go like, who cares? I don't care about fashion? You don't care about fashion? And yet it's yeah, it isn't the brain surgery, and yet it affects everyone in every which way. You took a role that no black person had ever had. You took a role that no gay person had ever had. You You You've been the first in so many positions, and it feels like you've had to live a life of now making sure that

everybody is seen. I'd love to know how you even think about this on a daily basis. How do you think about who's on the cover of magazine, who's in a magazine, which designers are in the magazine, and what fashion even should be. I mean, you know, we think of the zeit guys, who's representing the world today, who's everyone talking about. We also have to think who's got to shock the world a bit because he can't always

be safe? Right? And for me, when I approach the issue, I approach it in terms of you know, just diversity. We live in the world that's so diverse. You know, I love all kinds of women. I love big women are like small women, black women, older women. And for me, women need to see themselves represented in the magazine every month. Did you I wonder where the sense of yours came from?

You know, when I read through the story we we we go through the life of a young Ghanaian boy and his family, you know, moving from Ghana to the United Kingdom, having nothing really and yeah, having nothing and just and just working your way up. And your mom has this influence you know, on you, in in what she designed and how she was renowned as a designer. I would love to know how much she shaped how you see fashion and its role in the world today.

I mean, my mother literally shaped how I see it, not just fashion, about the world. I grew up in her hotelier. And you know, when you're African, with my grandmother's, my aunt's, my cousins, big women, you know, tall women, loud women, and I'd always be in the corner soaking up women. I love women, and they wouldn't know I was in the corner, and eventually somebody would be like

Ederic got get me water. So I grew up with my mother just learning about design and colors and what women liked, what made them tea And when you when you moved to the United Kingdom, I mean, you know, the UK has changed so much over the years. And and in the book We We we followed that journey, you know, we we see a world where you didn't fit in in so many ways. You didn't fit in as a gay man, right, you didn't fit in as

a black person in many spaces. You didn't fit in in this fashion world that had an idea of what beauty even stood for. And and you see these pictures of you at the very beginning, with like Naomi Campbell and Kate Marson and your beginnings. Why e would you go into an industry where everyone told you didn't belong? What made you stay there? Well? I didn't have a choice.

I was sort of discovered on the train. I was, you know, on my way to being a lawyer, a doctor, you know, African African professor of course, and I was discovered on the train to be a model and a model and then this whole world opened up for me. But little did I know that I was going to be the token or the chosen one. And when people are in that world, normally they're like, I'm good, I'm on my own. I'm like, But for me, it wasn't enough. I had to bring people up with me. I had

to bring my friends. Part mcgrad worparent nailed me because I didn't want to be the only one in that space. I love that. I love that you bought people, You incorporated the people you know you you you created a community and a culture that that that has shaped the way we see the world today. But but it wasn't It wasn't easy. It didn't you know. I remember there was a there's a tweet of yours. They went viral

and made the news around the world. You talk about it in the book where you were in a pretty senior position at Vogue. You know, the editor there you are, and you have many of your contemporaries who also edits a different fashion magazines. Yeah, you're a fashion director at that time, actually, And you have the fashion show and they seat everybody else in the front row, the first directors. Yeah, and they put you in the second row, and you noticed there was there was one thing that that was

different between you and them. I mean, I mean, you can't miss my skin to but I would. I would love to know why you tweeted about it so many so many other people would just keep quiet and be hurt, wouldn't say anything, wouldn't want ruffle any feathers. You tweeted it out, and you you you know it was it was really it was really cheeky and fun. I love that you said why is it that we all have the same job? And I'm paraphrasing, but I'm the only one in the second row, and then your racism question

mark XO X look for me. I just figured that, you know, when you're the one, it's your responsibility when those things happened to just tweet about it. Let the world know that it's not right, it's it's it's not good, it's it can't happen, it can't keep happening. So by doing that, that would never happened to me. Again, I'm gonna show you that what a flip And then follow up that's um, let's talk about fashion as a whole.

Fashion has for so long gone through UM. I feel like it's changed, but it's often been resistant to change. You know, I remember when I was growing up. People would complain about models who are anorextic and how they were told that they needed to look a certain way in order for them to be accepted. And then the fashion industry is like, okay, well we'll we'll, we'll change, will change, you know, And then over time people said, hey,

why don't you more inclusive of all women's bodies? And in fashionator is that okay, we'll will will change, will change. Now one of the bigger conversations people are having is about sustainability. You know, fashion comes out with new clothing every single season. They tell you what you're wearing is old and it's trash. You need new stuff. But then the old stuff gets thrown away, it's filling up landfills,

et cetera. Are you seeing a push and and and why do you think it's important for fashion to be at the forefront of sustainable or sustainably creating Why we wear what we wear? What I love about the industry right now is the biggest conversations about sustainability. I've always preached by better by less by things you can pass on to people, your kids, your sisters. But for me, for for for for my industry to move forward, we

need to. I don't know, just see that we're part of it was something the fashion industry is so what's the word in its own little bubble. It's a little bubble. So I think it's a reckoning and we're all really really dealing with it right now. If you if you could change one thing about the fashion industry, you know, on your own, the magic one, what would you change? I mean, I always wanted it to be more inclusive,

and we're getting there. It's so not enough. I wish there were more people from diverse backgrounds behind the scenes, not just on the runway. It's not just you know, on on phones, but just behind the scenes, not just interns at mid level, seal level. That's really what I want. You. You did that. You know, one thing I appreciate about you, one of the many things, is you you actually did

that on the ground. When you were able to hire people, you made sure to hire people who had previously been excluded. You know, it's not like you don't hire white people, but you hire everybody. Now everybody gets an equal opportunity to come into the building. You've changed that. Have you seen have you reaped the rewards of that? Have you

noticed a change within Vogue as a whole. I mean for me, but when I look at other magazines and I say that it's a norm to have sort of women of different shapes, colors, and and I feel that. You know, when I was when I took the magazine in twenty seventeen, that wasn't a conversation anybody was having.

People were like, You're gonna get fired. But I remember always saying, if I'm going to get fired, I'm going to get fired for something I believed it, not trying to be somebody else that you know the world as ready. I love that, I really do love that. It's It's a fantastic book that I mean, I could talk to you for hours about because it talks about everything, the AIDS epidemic, it talks about identity as as a gay man, It talks about the fashion industry, it talks about your

life as an African, as an immigrant. It feels like you touched on everything. It's a fantastic journey. I'm gonna ask you for a favorite, putting you on this spot because you have so much, because you don't like create the fashion, but you have such an influence. Can I ask you to get them to stop saying plus size models because then it implies that they're not modeled. Coving. I loved yeah, but but I mean, like it's like that.

One think it's weird because people will be like, oh, plus size model, but then it implies that like they just model. That's where you want. Thank you so much, congratulations on everything. Thank you to see that was never bokable. Man's available right now, and then then pull everybody. We're gonna take a quick, quick We'll be right back after this. Thank you. What's tonight? But before we go, please consider

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