Vanity Project

This week, for another very special VPT2 interview, the girls are joined by the fabulous Joel AKA Billie Posters AKA Berlin Joel. Ceramicist, filmmaker, performance artist, reformed lawyer and Kitkat-enjoyer sits down between us to chat everything from cofa to UDK and back. We open up in an anti-circle-jerk of sorts regarding our troubles with institutions, the Sydney art market, and painting. Att...

This week, the ladies are joined by national treasure and school captain, Jessica Rose Pearson. This is the first of many special interviews to come, announcing and introducing some of the fabulous artists who will be a part of Vanity Project’s 2nd birthday party on June 7th at Goodspace Gallery. Jessica Rose Pearson sits down with Laura and Charles to discuss her imaginary cape and crown, her god...

Vanity Project were in attendance at the avant-premiere screening of Branden Cronenberg's new film. It's...like a cumshot! For more paywalled content head over to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanity_project

On the first Tuesday of May (adjusted for time zones) we made ourselves breakfast and buckled into the live Vogue coverage of the MET Gala. Listen as Laura and Charles give a little more than their two cents on Karl: A Line of Beauty . We give you the talking points you need to survive the media maelstrom of takes, take-downs, and gags of the gala’s red carpet. From Advanced Style and aging musty...

Special paywalled, untucked, mouth-full, fresh-out-the-cinema hot takes about the new Ari Aster testicle movie. For the full episode and more paywalled content join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanity_project

For this very special 50th episode of Vanity Project, the girls are taking your calls! Watch the gay men go quiet when dialing 1800-Vanity-Project. The devoted listeners of the pod make their voices heard…literally!  Laura and Charles field all your burning questions, like which Sydney art schools have cock shame and which ones have “pussy facing the world”? What are they putting on a sandwich? Wh...

Laura and Charles are joined by their dearest friends, Levent and Carmen, to speak about some upcoming special events! Vanity Project cordially invites you to the Fatal Crush: 037 issue launch ‘see-through’ on Tuesday the 18th of April at the Black Box UNSW A&D from 6-8pm along with Levent Kaya’s curatorial debut ‘Bonfire’ the following night from 6pm on Wednesday the 19th at Flow Studios in C...

This week, the girls are listening to Lana Del Rey's ninth studio album while sipping root beer by the taco truck. Laura and Charles have developed a new form of navel-gazing: after skinny dipping in your mind, “let the light shine in” by sunning your privates, just like Shailene Woodley encouraged us to do many moons ago, there’s a word for it in Japanese… Whose shoulders are you standing on?...

Happy Fucking Mardi Gras! This festive season we are giving you a scene report from the most fabulous, or as we say, fagulous, holiday celebrations and condemnations. Charles and Laura go deep on their so-called “World Pride” highlights thus far. We give you the play-by-play on dyke bars, eulogies, the drive-in cinema that we got clocked at, and our experience getting personal with the one, the on...

Let’s hear it for the boys! This week, Charles and Laura give YOU a blow-by-blow of FW23 menswear. This is what makes us boys: in a world where war is waged between effeminacy and forced masculinisation, where do you stand? While Charles takes huge loads interning for Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Laura takes her top off in a perverted sexual pageant because she’s “just more comfortable this way”. Thro...

What’s that smell? After another hiatus, Charles and Laura are back. If you ever wondered what Vanity Project smells like, now’s the time to tune in.  The top notes of their signature fragrance consist of discussions about panty and underarm sniffing and “feral man smell”, the heart notes of the chemicals in lavender that caused your gynecomastia (male breast tissue development), and finally...

Charles and Laura are back for Paris Fashion Week, and Laura’s trying to scream over the cacophony Girl Pusher’s harsh noise. We’ll continue to fantasise about Margiela, fall out of love with Vaquera, and suck Rick Owens' dick (some might even call it draining). We briefly talk Italian fascism as it pertains to the recent displays by Moncler and Ferragamo, and soon realise we don't know what we're...

We're back! After a long hiatus, Laura and Charles have returned to talk all things inflation! As the wise economist Timothée Chalamet once said, "It's tough to be alive now. I think societal collapse is in the air - it smells like it". And so we ask, what is that smell? Well, it's Glenn Martens' DIESEL of course! Having trouble with a leaky hole after getting pumped? They have an artisan-crafted...

Join Laura and Charles in their state of undress as they straddle the axis of sexy and smart. After successfully finding the ugliest dress on earth (see images only from behind the paywall on Patreon) in a dressing room somewhere in Berlin, which left them wondering...what does it mean to dress for success... They take stabs in the dark as they try to situate straight male desire and let off steam...

Back in Paris, just in the nic (sic) of time for the Balenciaga show, Charles and Laura shine a spotlight on the preeminent actress who could be Australia’s only diva… it’s time for a double dog of a feature with the one and only Nicole Kidman.  We talk radical formalism (re: Brinkema), anti-Americanism (re: von Trier), and the bravery it requires to portray falling in love with the wrong ten...

In Berlin your favourite threesome continues their hole exploration in the good company of bestie of the pod Lev Kaya! This time, situated in the arse end of the world, we stare deeper and deeper into The Hole dir. Ming-liang Tsai (1998).  We strain our talk holes to stretch the definition of hole, and ask how many kinds of excretion can you name? What’s the deal with the wiping gender gap? C...

Today on Wednesday 22nd of June, 2022, our lovechild Vanity Project turned one! Charles and Laura do their greatest hits to celebrate and look back on their first year of one-off collaboration p-p-podcasts. Inspired by Drumloop's 'Open Space', and instrumental remixed by us from Cukor Bila Smert' 'The Great Hen-Yuan River'.  For more paywalled content head over to the Patreon: https://www.pat...

On this week's episode of Vanity Project, Laura and Charles visit one of Berlin's most notorious sex-clubs so that you don't have to! Our names is both Dita, we'll be your mister-es-es-es tonight... They go down[town] to see a jarringly immersive Tom of Finland exhibition, and challenge each other to take the Eiffel Tower. Don’t look now, there’s men in leather with huge hard ons that boyfriend of...

It’s that’s time of the year again! But this time, Charles and Laura are doing things differently. Join us on the Met steps as we desperately prove we are Not Like Other cultural commentators and their hot takes about rich people in expensive dresses. In a vain attempt to differentiate ourselves, we’ve refused to give our opinions on the clothes. Save from Cara Delevingne’s gilded chest, but does...

Charles and Laura are joined by bestie of the pod Lev to ram, head on, into Crash (1996) and Crash (2022). In a cataclysmic collison between a lavender Lamborghini (driven by one miss Charli XCX) and the car JFK died in (piloted by David Cronenberg) our podcasters try to keep their eyes on the road. Don’t look back, Deborah Unger is giving road head. They talk the road, the highway, landing strips...

Charles and Laura, clad in micro-minis (rumoured to be the very same one Nicole Kidman wore) and branded satin ballet slippers, painstakingly examine fw22 fashion week so that you don’t have to! They talk forever refugees, the hypernormalisation of the aestheticisation of war, violence, the UN, and garbage bags, how-to, and how not to make jokes in fashion, annoying gay men with no taste, learning...

Tuck yourself in for an hour of rest and relaxation, as Laura and Charles recount their experiences finally reading a novel. They talk everything girlblogging and godposting, twin towers and thigh gaps, competitive insanity, female frailty, general unhappiness and their past lives as treacherous princesses and feeble peasant boys. Regular podcasting is a promise, and they can’t afford to lie. So g...

Charles and Laura are joined by esteemed bestie and former Framework editor Carmencita, and catch Sydney’s last screening of Dasha Nekrasova’s debut feature The Scary of Sixty-First so you don’t have to! Legs spread, they dive headfirst into post-web conspiracy, substance abuse, and resist possession by Jeffery Epstein in the grand tradition of Isabelle Adjani when she was in that tunnel in 1981....

It's another double feature baby! Charles and Laura ceremoniously - and competitively - venerate Chloë Sevigny and say "hey" to Laura’s Theory of the Puritanical Society. After months of Laura’s begging, Charles watches The Last Days of Disco (1998), and they go to town together on The Brown Bunny (2003). They talk gossip, pre-influencer-influencers, “It Girl” theorems, and [redacted]. Get on your...

Charles and Laura gently probe with manicured fingers at Laura’s new [read: raw, unedited] autofiction, titled “Horseshoe Theory, or HOOF RESTORATION VERY SATISFYING”. Listen in to the two waifs’ last-ditch effort at It-Girl-isms and self-aggrandisement before reforming themselves with some sense of humility. They ponder the ceiling of Sydney’s degrees of separation, and inch closer to interviewin...