Our latest edition of "Fashion History Now" is an around the world journey. From Japan to Australia to New York, we shine the spotlight on documentaries, exhibitions, and ethical products that celebrate fashion's past, present and future. 

To enjoy: ⁠Hazel Village's⁠ ethically made woodland animals 

To follow: 

To visit/attend: 

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In this week's two-part episode, we explore the work of the "phantasmagoric couturier" Leigh Bowery, who has been described as "artist and art object, a thing to see, to experience." Primarily using dress and his own body as his medium of expression, Bowery's work was equally at home in contemporary art institutions and in the London club scene during the 1980s and 1990s. Tate Modern curator Fiontán Moran joins us this week to speak about the exhibition ⁠Leigh Bowery!⁠ which is on view now at the Tate through August 31, 2025.

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In this week's two-part episode, we explore the work of the "phantasmagoric couturier" Leigh Bowery, who has been described as "artist and art object, a thing to see, to experience." Primarily using dress and his own body as his medium of expression, Bowery's work was equally at home in contemporary art institutions and in the London club scene during the 1980s and 1990s. Tate Modern curator Fiontán Moran joins us this week to speak about the exhibition Leigh Bowery! which is on view now at the Tate through August 31, 2025.

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This week we hear from some of our very favorite guests: YOU! From your questions about Medieval millinery to Brooke Shield's infamous campaign for Calvin Klein jeans when she was just 15 and a fashion history archive recommendation today we answer and review your listener mail.

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On May 18th, 1908, 3 fashion models were reportedly arrested at Paris's Longchamps racecourse. But just what was so criminal about the clothing they wore? On this first edition of our new "Dressed Diaries" series, we head back in time and straight into the pages of fashion history to investigate this scandalous event.

Find Sue Ralph's blog post on Margaine-Lacroix here. 

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We bring you Part II of our annual coverage of the most anticipated fashion history event of the year: the 2025 Met Gala which accompanies The Costume Institute's sure to be blockbuster exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.

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We bring you Part I of our annual coverage of the most anticipated fashion history event of the year: the 2025 Met Gala which accompanies the Costume Institute's sure to be blockbuster exhibition ⁠Superfine: Tailoring Black Style⁠.

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Fashion curator and organizer Amber-Dawn Bear Robe is back to tell us all about the first ever Native Fashion Week Santa Fe 2025, one of the largest Indigenous Fashion Weeks in America, "where legacy meets the avant-garde."

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The work of internationally renowned fashion designer and traditional Haida artist Dorothy Grant embodies "10,000 years of living Haida culture." She joins us to discuss her groundbreaking, four decade long career in celebration of the first monograph of her life and work Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread.

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In this week's two-part episode, we recap our recent fashion history day tours of NYC and hear from a few of the past Dressed guests who joined us along the way. In Part II, we chat about our “behind the seams” morning tours of two of the oldest, family owned and operated businesses in New York’s legendary Garment District and our fashion history-packed afternoon at the New York Historical Society!

Featured past Dressed guests:

M&S Schmalberg's website and Instagram, Dressed interview

Tom's Sons International Pleating's website and Instagram, Project Golden Bear, Four Empty Walls documentary, Dressed interview

Cheyney McKnight’s website, Instagram, Dressed Interview

Real Clothes Real Lives exhibition, Dressed interview with Keren Ben-Horin and Kiki Smith

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