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 Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine, Spain, where restoration took decades rather than seasons, to Marshall’s Rhythms Within, where sound becomes a way to reset the body and quiet the mind.What emerges is a different understanding of slow. Not laziness, not retreat, but attention, patience and the willingness to meet the world at its own tempo.Plus The Root. A journey to Namia River Retreat, near Hoi An, where peace is built into every detail.And The Practice. Jana listens to one full piece of music without interruption. Kai walks with no destination and lets the city reveal itself.Schön! alive conversations is a podcast by Schön! Magazine

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, performance and the duality of self and character, the conversation turns to what it means to build a career outside expectation. In the archive, they revisit Fan Bingbing, Juliette Lewis, Milla Jovovich, and Paris Hilton — each of them, in very different ways, reshaping the culture around them before the world had language for what they were doing.Episode six is about icons, outliers, and the people who changed the conversation simply by refusing to stay in one category. Schön! Conversations is the official podcast of Schön! Magazine.

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 for what is in front of you, or somewhere else entirely?From a falconer in Tuscany whose hawk teaches presence better than any retreat programme, to Raymond Blanc learning attention in a field long before he entered a kitchen. From Ruinart, the world’s oldest champagne house, asking what a three hundred year old institution owes the planet, to Bonaire, where a marine biologist has spent twenty five years underwater and still says no day ever disappoints.Plus The Root: one story, one source. A team, BMW Motorrad, forty days, Europe to Namibia, and what happens when movement lasts long enough for the ordinary mind to run out of things to plan.And The Practice: Jana walks into a ceramics studio she has passed a hundred times. Kai eats a meal alone and lasts four minutes.Schön! alive conversations is a podcast by Schön! Magazine.

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 the world alive moves through: travel, food and wine, living spaces, wellness, art, mobility, and the philosophy behind it all. Not simply a list of beautiful things, but a guide to the stories behind them.They open the door to a handful of stories still to come: a resort on the Croatian island of Hvar built entirely around the idea of attention. A building in Tulum that changes your state of mind the moment you step inside. A chef who, if you ask the right question, will tell you she is not cooking food, she is cooking emotion. An electric car conversion projectmaking the case that the things you love do not have to become obsolete. And an artist asking who owns geometry.They also introduce The Practice, one real thing each host is genuinely doing right now. Not advice. Not aspiration. Just something honest.Next episode: the first issue of Schön! alive. Its theme was mindfulness. Jana has thoughts about that word. Several thoughts.A sister podcast to Schön! conversations.Schön! alive conversations is a podcast by Schön! Magazine

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 at magazine level.The editorial models who helped shape the visual language of the magazine over sixteen years: Bregje Heinen, Meghan Collison, Isabeli Fontana, Coco Rocha.The male models the magazine kept returning to: Tony Ward, David Gandy, Sam Webb, Fernando Cabral.Iman choosing an independent magazine.Gigi Hadid, before the machine arrived.And the South Sudanese thread running from Ajak Deng to Aweng Chuol, to Ellie Goldstein and Calum Harper right now.And in Schön! Origins: Issue 18, 2012.Naomi Campbell.One cover.Two hundred and thirty-two pages.The issue that quietly said everything about what this magazine was going to be.Schön! Conversations is the official podcast of Schön! Magazine.

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 a photographer — shot in CHANEL. No celebrities. No framing. Just four serious people doing serious work.They explore why that edit could only have come from a magazine that had learned to think like its adopted city.Plus: the Brexit context nobody talks about, why an address can be an editorial statement, and what it means to stop over-explaining yourself.Schön! conversations is the official podcast of Schön! Magazine.

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 her bedroom and never changing a thing about herself.H.E.R. winning two Grammys without ever showing her face.Rina Sawayama walking away from Cambridge.Kali Uchis writing songs from the back seat of a car.Dove Cameron finding a way out of Disney on her own terms.Then: the artists who are still in those early chapters now — Artemas, Zeyne, Mahalia and a band from Nashville that formed because of a snowstorm.And in Schön! Origins: Olivia Rodrigo.Before SOUR. Before drivers license. Before the world changed.Schön! conversations is the official podcast of Schön! Magazine.

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 Debicki 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 looks like in practice.Then: the current wave.Aggy K. Adams, Jess Alexander, Sarah Yarkin, Charlie Bushnell and Dior Goodjohn — names that aren’t everywhere yet, but soon will be.And in Schön! Origins: Letitia Wright, Issue 39.Before Black Panther. Before Wakanda. Before the world knew her name.Schön! conversations is the official podcast of Schön! Magazine.

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, Schön! has a habit of placing people on its pages right at the edge of something extraordinary. Not after the fame. Before it.In the first Schön Origins segment, they return to Issue 35 and the cover that still stops people mid-scroll: Rosalía, photographed in Los Angeles, before the stadium tours, before the Grammys, before the world caught up.A conversation about instinct, independence, and what a magazine archive really is.