Fashion luminary and trailblazing model, agent and activist Bethann Hardison joins us to discuss her life and legacy as explored in the new documentary Invisible Beauty. More on the documentary Invisible Beauty Bethann's websiteOur Battle of Versailles interview with Robin GivanWant more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our websiteOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 100 of our favorite fashion history titles!


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Invisible Beauty: An Interview with Bethann Hardison

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common: everyday, we all get dressed. Join fashion historians April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary in celebrating the who, what, when of why we wear throughout history and around the world. 

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Recorded live at the recent Project Threadways symposium hosted by the ethical brand Alabama Chanin, we explore four past Dressed topics to underscore the importance of understanding the materials to go into our clothes and valuing the people that make them. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 140 of our favorite fashion history titles

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Why Fashion History Matters:  Lessons From Our Past to Save Our Future

The 2024 Met Gala might go down as the most controversial and most expensive in the event's 75 year+ history. Today we unpack the broader implications of the Gala's The Garden of Time theme while we also explore the exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, which puts on display 220 masterpieces from The Costume Institute's permanent collection.  Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 140 of our favorite fashion history titles

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Fashion History Now 61: The 2024 Met Gala

Today we tease our Fall 2024 fashion history tour of Paris and detail all of the sartorial delights on our itinerary for the City of Lights. From tours of the most important fashion museums in the world, to private visits to the ateliers of both historic and contemporary makers, this year's tour might just be our best yet! We will visit the Paris Opera and ballet costume workshops after hours on an exceptionally exclusive tour and will wander the 'closed to the public' spectacular home of one of the 19th centuries great (and most fashionable) courtesans, La Paiva. Tune in to see what's in store for you if you join us à Paris September 28-October 5 2024. More information and detailed itinerary are here. Space is limited and we expect this to sell out quickly. (Once the initial offering fills, we will start a waitlist to assess interest in a second weeklong offering.) Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 130 of our favorite fashion history titles

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Dressed's Upcoming 2024 Fashion History Tour of Paris

This week we are joined by Rachel Slade to discuss her book Making It In America which examines the story of the company American Roots which has undertaken the nearly impossible task of manufacturing garments 100% made in the U.S.A.  Recorded live at the recent 18th Annual Sustainability Business and Design Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology, our discussion centers around the challenges faced by American makers. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? More information on our 2024 Fashion History tour of ParisOur website and classesOur InstagramOur bookshelf with over 130 of our favorite fashion history titles


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Making It In America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (and How It Got That Way), an interview with Rachel Slade

Books are some of the first ways that children are introduced to the fantastical, wonderful, and historical world of fashion. On today's episode, we share some children's books that sparked our own love for fashion history, as well as some more recent publications.  Books discussed in today's episode (some with links to purchase):A Treasury of the World’s Greatest Fairy TalesRumplestiltskin by Paul O. ZelinskyThe Lady with the Ship on her Head by Deborah Nourse LattimoreBaba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave by Marianna MayerMufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John SteptoeMy Dadima Wears a Sari by Kashmira ShethLittle People/Big Dreams: Vivienne WestwoodLittle People/Big Dreams: Iris ApfelLittle People/Big Dreams: Frida KahloThe Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe by Deborah BlumenthalOnly the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashions of Ann Lowe by Kate Messner and Margaret PowellBloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli by Kyo MaclearThe Little Red Dress: A Kids Book about Fashion by Jonathan JosephHistory is Worn: A Story of Fashion by Christine Na-Eun Millar
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Invisible Beauty: An Interview with Bethann Hardison

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