From the Club to the Runway and Now on the Radio – Charles Jeffrey on LOVERBOY’s Bright Future – VOGUE
Wed 30 Aug
JOSÉ CRIALES-UNZUETA
“I never just wanted to be a great fashion designer with Natasha Poly walking down my runway. What I’m interested in is creating moments.” So said Charles Jeffrey of the London brand Loverboy on a Zoom from his studio this week. Fans know that Loverbody started as a club night almost 10 years ago, with Jeffrey as its club kid host. It has since evolved into the fashion label we know and love, but apparel was never intended as its final form. Jeffrey has already dropped an album; Neko is a sonic counterpart to his fall 2022 collection. His latest venture is a new radio show, titled Loverboy Radio, launching today on Foundation FM. “I like our brand being amorphous and having different avenues,” he said. “We could be a TV show next.”
“I never just wanted to be a great fashion designer... What I’m interested in is creating moments.”
Charles Jeffrey
The debut episode of Loverboy Radio features a lineup of interviews recorded in New York earlier this summer, plus tidbits of goings-on in the Loverboy world. It opens with vintage songs (including Elaine Stritch’s “The Ladies Who Lunch”); jumps to music from past Loverboy shows that included looks featured in the upcoming exhibition “Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion,” which is being guest curated by Vogue’s Sarah Mower; then cuts to interviews with DJ Joey LaBeija, Colm Dillane of KidSuper, and Angelica Davincii of Dover Street Market New York. The show closes with a segment in which Jeffrey chats with his fellow Scott, musician Luca Manning. Two additional interviews, one with Duckie Brown designers Steven Cox and Daniel Silver, and another with makeup artist and Charles Jeffrey Loverboy superfan Niko Haagenson can be seen exclusively in the short documentary at VOGUE.