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With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed. Join Dressed as we explore the social and cultural histories behind the who, what, when of why we wear.
In this two-part episode, we celebrate the avant-garde French designer Paul Poiret, who is the subject of a new retropsective exhibition Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Known as "The King of Fashion," Poiret was an incomparable force of personality, vision, and industry, who was instrumental in not just revolutionizing women’s fashion at the dawn of the twentieth century, but transforming the very concept of fashion itself, effectively laying the groundwork for the modern fashion industry that we are indebted to today.
Further Reading:
Exhibition catalog Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast, preorder in the US here
Poiret's memoir King of Fashion
2007 exhibition catalog Poiret
Further Listening:
Fashion, Race, and Expanding the Narrative of Fashion History with Kimberly Jenkins
Fashioning White Femininity: The Ethnic Masquerade of Modern Fashion with Dr. Victoria Pass
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Dressed: The History of Fashion
With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed. Join Dressed as we explore the social and cultural histories behind the who, what, when of why we wear.
