Mon June 15, 2026
Bella Freud in conversation with Rachel Kushner
at City Arts & Lectures - Sydney Goldstein Theater
(7:30pm)
In her podcast Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud explores where fashion connects to our memories, desires, and identities, delving into the interior lives and exterior garments of musicians, artists, designers, and more. She joins Rachel Kushner to discuss this new endeavour.
The great-granddaughter of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and the daughter of painter Lucien Freud, Bella Freud has found a way to carve her own path without ignoring her unique family. Freud has designed clothing, made perfumes, published magazines, and directed short films, always bringing her iconic focus on a playful relationship with language. In the podcast Fashion Neurosis, guests come to Freud's apartment, lie on her couch, and discuss the connection between what they wear and who they are. Freud describes it as "a way to learn vicariously all the things I've secretly wanted to know," using fashion to delve into questions of identity and self-consciousness. The result is a fascinating window into how our minds emerge through what we choose to wear.
Rachel Kushner has proven herself to be "one of the most gifted authors of her generation," (NYT Book Review). She is the author of internationally acclaimed novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, and Creation Lake, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K, as well as the essay collections The Hard Crowd. Kushner has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and the Booker Prize.
Image Credit: Photo by Lynette Garland
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The great-granddaughter of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and the daughter of painter Lucien Freud, Bella Freud has found a way to carve her own path without ignoring her unique family. Freud has designed clothing, made perfumes, published magazines, and directed short films, always bringing her iconic focus on a playful relationship with language. In the podcast Fashion Neurosis, guests come to Freud's apartment, lie on her couch, and discuss the connection between what they wear and who they are. Freud describes it as "a way to learn vicariously all the things I've secretly wanted to know," using fashion to delve into questions of identity and self-consciousness. The result is a fascinating window into how our minds emerge through what we choose to wear.
Rachel Kushner has proven herself to be "one of the most gifted authors of her generation," (NYT Book Review). She is the author of internationally acclaimed novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, and Creation Lake, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K, as well as the essay collections The Hard Crowd. Kushner has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and the Booker Prize.
Image Credit: Photo by Lynette Garland
In her podcast Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud explores where fashion connects to our memories, desires, and identities, delving into the interior lives and exterior garments of musicians, artists, designers, and more. She joins Rachel Kushner to discuss this new endeavour.
The great-granddaughter of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and the daughter of painter Lucien Freud, Bella Freud has found a way to carve her own path without ignoring her unique family. Freud has designed clothing, made perfumes, published magazines, and directed short films, always bringing her iconic focus on a playful relationship with language. In the podcast Fashion Neurosis, guests come to Freud's apartment, lie on her couch, and discuss the connection between what they wear and who they are. Freud describes it as "a way to learn vicariously all the things I've secretly wanted to know," using fashion to delve into questions of identity and self-consciousness. The result is a fascinating window into how our minds emerge through what we choose to wear.
Rachel Kushner has proven herself to be "one of the most gifted authors of her generation," (NYT Book Review). She is the author of internationally acclaimed novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, and Creation Lake, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K, as well as the essay collections The Hard Crowd. Kushner has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and the Booker Prize.
Image Credit: Photo by Lynette Garland
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The great-granddaughter of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and the daughter of painter Lucien Freud, Bella Freud has found a way to carve her own path without ignoring her unique family. Freud has designed clothing, made perfumes, published magazines, and directed short films, always bringing her iconic focus on a playful relationship with language. In the podcast Fashion Neurosis, guests come to Freud's apartment, lie on her couch, and discuss the connection between what they wear and who they are. Freud describes it as "a way to learn vicariously all the things I've secretly wanted to know," using fashion to delve into questions of identity and self-consciousness. The result is a fascinating window into how our minds emerge through what we choose to wear.
Rachel Kushner has proven herself to be "one of the most gifted authors of her generation," (NYT Book Review). She is the author of internationally acclaimed novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, and Creation Lake, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K, as well as the essay collections The Hard Crowd. Kushner has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and the Booker Prize.
Image Credit: Photo by Lynette Garland
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