Schön! conversations

Episode three begins with a question. If renewal is not passive, what does it really ask of us? Kai and Jana follow that idea into places and people that move at their own pace. From  Buahan, Bali , where the jungle and river seem to slow thought itself, to  Moorea , where Coral Gardeners are rebuilding reefs fragment by fragment. From  A badía Retuerta LeDomaine, Spain , where restoration took de...

What makes someone impossible to categorise and why are those people often the most interesting? In episode six of Schön! Conversations , Amelia and Leo move between the present and the archive to explore the artists, actors and cultural figures who never fit neatly into one box. From Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox stepping into the Grammys spotlight, to Jurnee Smollett reflecting on identity, per...

Last episode, Jana said she had thoughts about the word  mindfulness . Several thoughts. This is where she says them. Kai and Jana unpack the way mindfulness has been turned into a product: an app, a certification, something you can complete in thirty days and claim as your own. Then they reframe it as something older and more demanding: attention. The question is simple. Are you actually present...

It starts with a hot tub.  Late at night in the Austrian Alps. A very good whiskey. And a question that would not go away: somewhere out there, is there a  secret guide to everything beautiful  not just what it looks like, but  why it matters ? That question is where  Schön! alive  began. And this is where the conversations start. In the first episode, hosts  Kai and Jana  introduce themselves and...

What does  Schön!  actually look for in a model? Not the answer most magazines give. In this episode, Amelia and Leo go deep into the archive to find out — and the answer turns out to live mostly on the inside pages, not the cover. From  Andreja Pejić  on the cover in 2011, before the world was even having that conversation, to  Crystal Renn  in 2012, when the body politics debate barely existed a...

In 2009, Schön! launched in London. Today it’s based in Berlin. That move wasn’t just logistical — it was editorial. In this episode, Amelia and Leo ask what it actually means for a magazine to change cities, and why Berlin specifically changed what Schön! became. The conversation anchors around a real editorial from  Schön! 49 : four Berlin women — a floral sculptor, a food artist, an author and...

Schön! has photographed some of the most important musicians of the last decade — before the albums, before the Grammys, before the world caught up. In this episode, Amelia and Leo open the magazine’s music archive and ask the harder question: not just who made it, but how. And what it actually cost. RAYE and the years of work the industry tried to bury. Jorja Smith uploading  Blue Lights  from he...

Schön! has a pattern — finding actors before anyone else is paying attention. In this episode, Amelia and Leo dive into the magazine’s archive of acting talent: Elle Fanning and Ella Purnell in Schön! 31 , Elizabeth Debick i in Schön! 32, and Bailey Bass before either Avatar film. They explore why an independent magazine keeps getting there first — and what that kind of editorial instinct actually...

Schön! conversations  is the podcast from  Schön! Magazine  — the independent fashion and culture title founded in London in 2007 and now based in Berlin. In this first episode, hosts Amelia and Leo open the Schön! archive and ask a simple question: how does an independent magazine keep finding the right people before the rest of the world does? From Rihanna to Gigi Hadid , Rosalía to Halle Bailey...