The designer who transformed J.Crew into a cultural institution and redefined American style? That is of course Jenna Lyons. In this episode, she joins David to trace the eye for color and texture she's spent a lifetime collecting on the road. From Milanese cafés and silk factories in China to karaoke nights in Tokyo and childhood summers in the French countryside that changed how she understood beauty.

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Photo Credits:
- Dries Van Noten. Dimore Studio. Photographer: Andrea Ferrari
- Modepaleis flagship store, Antwerp. Photographer: Tijs Vervecken

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David Remnick is a Pulitzer Prize winner and has helmed The New Yorker for 27 years. He joins the show not only to recount his own travels – from Moscow to Tel Aviv to campaign trails and tour buses – but also to reflect on what nearly three decades of dispatching the world's finest writers has revealed about history, cultural connectedness, and the vast breadth of stories to be found.

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Photo Credits:

- Mona Museum Images (in order of appearance)

• Museum of Old and New Art. Photo Credit: Mona/Stu Gibson. Image courtesy of Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Girls Rule, 2016-18, Tom Otterness. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artists and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Snack 1970 - 72. Sir Sidney Nolan. Photo Credit: MONA/Jesse Hunniford. Image Courtesy MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
• Siloam tunnels, Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
• Unseen Seen, 2017. Artist: James Turrell. Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
• Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Rémi Chauvin. Image courtesy of Mona, Hobart, Tasmania

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Self-taught designer, cook, and creative force Athena Calderone — dubbed "the modern girl's Martha Stewart” by T magazine — joins David to trace the restless curiosity that took her from Long Island to New York's nightlife scene, and on to Ibiza, Morocco, and Rome, always finding beauty and inspiration just beyond the obvious.

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In Traveling Through, David Prior—travel writer and founder of experiential travel company Prior—sits down with friends and culture-makers like Jenna Lyons, David Remnick, Deborah Needleman, Athena Calderone, and more to trace the trips, objects, and encounters that shaped who they are. Because the most interesting stories aren't about where you went. They're about what stayed with you. New episodes every other Thursday. Find it on Youtube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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