The Front Row Season Finale is here — and it’s wrapped in velvet, champagne, and couture.

In this special holiday episode, Audrey Charlyes takes you through the State of Fashion 2025, a mini-editorial recap of the industry’s biggest wins, losses, reinventions, and revelations.

Then, she unwraps Season 1: favorite episodes, unforgettable moments, and the sharpest insights from a year in the front row.

To celebrate the holidays, enjoy a curated Couture Christmas Guide: styling notes, fashion do’s and don’ts, Paris vs New York December aesthetics, luxury gift ideas, and Audrey’s signature New Year’s Eve style commandments.

Elegant, witty, emotional, and festive — this finale closes the season exactly the way fashion should: with heart, taste, and a little sparkle.

Season Two arrives in January. Until then, bonne fête, my loves.

The State of Fashion 2025

Front Row with Audrey Charlyes

This season, fashion didn’t just change — it confessed.

In the Season One Finale of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, Audrey takes you inside the soul of fashion in 2025: the beauty, the burnout, the brilliance and the breaking points.

From creative reinventions to exhausted trends…

From luxury’s identity crisis to style’s emotional comeback…

This episode is not a recap. It’s a reckoning.

What survived the noise?

What lost its magic?

And what are we finally ready to leave behind?

The State of Fashion 2025 is part love letter, part reality check — and a quiet goodbye before something new begins.

Pour the champagne.

Dim the lights.

And take your seat…

front row.

This isn’t just Fashion Week.

This is Africa in Couture Mode.

In this special edition of Front Row with Audrey Charlyes, I sat down with Mr. Alan Franck, Program & Designers Director of LA Fashion Week by Elie Kuame for an exclusive conversation on the vision behind this international fashion platform.

We talk about: ✨ Why LA Fashion Week by EK matters

✨ What makes this edition powerful

✨ What designers and guests can expect

✨ How Africa continues to redefine global luxury

And with Olivia Yace as the Godmother of the event, this edition promises elegance, influence and cultural authority.

📍 08–14 December | Centre Culturel Ivoiro-Coréen, Abidjan

🎧 Episode out now on Front Row with Audrey Charlyes

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When Fashion Forgets Fashion: The Spectacle, the Circus & the Soul

Has fashion become more circus than couture?

This week, Audrey explores the rise of the spectacle — the pyrotechnics, the theatrics, the viral-moment obsession — and what happens when the show overshadows the clothes.

From the return of intimate presentations to the quiet rebellion of houses choosing mastery over noise, this episode asks the real question:

What remains when the smoke clears?

A poetic, witty, and razor-sharp dive into the moment fashion rediscovers its soul.

When Fashion Forgets Fashion: The Spectacle, the Circus & the Soul

Has fashion become more circus than couture?

This week, Audrey explores the rise of the spectacle — the pyrotechnics, the theatrics, the viral-moment obsession — and what happens when the show overshadows the clothes.

From the return of intimate presentations to the quiet rebellion of houses choosing mastery over noise, this episode asks the real question:

What remains when the smoke clears?

A poetic, witty, and razor-sharp dive into the moment fashion rediscovers its soul.

The Fashion Industry’s Midlife Crisis: Reinvention, Relevance & Realness

Fashion is having a full-blown identity crisis — and today, we’re unpacking the chaos with a front-row seat. From the creative-director musical chairs to the desperation for relevance, to the algorithm shaping design more than vision ever did… this episode dives into the tension between panic and reinvention.

Why are some houses spiraling while others are silently thriving?

And what does “realness” actually look like in 2025?

Join Audrey as she cuts through the noise with wit, clarity, and couture-level insight.

This is fashion’s midlife crisis — revealed, decoded, and dressed in truth.

The Fashion Industry’s Midlife Crisis: Reinvention, Relevance & Realness

Fashion is having a full-blown identity crisis — and today, we’re unpacking the chaos with a front-row seat. From the creative-director musical chairs to the desperation for relevance, to the algorithm shaping design more than vision ever did… this episode dives into the tension between panic and reinvention.

Why are some houses spiraling while others are silently thriving?

And what does “realness” actually look like in 2025?

Join Audrey as she cuts through the noise with wit, clarity, and couture-level insight.

This is fashion’s midlife crisis — revealed, decoded, and dressed in truth.

Episode 9 — The Illusion of Cool: Where Image, Influence & Reality Collide

In this episode, Audrey peels back the layers of modern cool — from its engineered scarcity to the PR-polished illusions shaping today’s fashion reality.

A witty, insightful sequel to Episode 6 (The Price of Cool), this monologue explores how influence is constructed, how fantasy becomes currency, and why true cool has quietly returned to craftsmanship, meaning and intention.