Dressed: The History of Fashion

This week 's Dressed Classic episodes from 2024 revisit a two-part conversation with Waleria Dorogova, co-curator of the exhibition Sonia Delaunay: Living Art. Mounted in 2024 at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, the ground breaking exhibition by Dorogova and co-curator Laura Microulis, explored Delaunay's work beyond painting and revealed her significant creative output as a fashion and textile designer.

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In part II of our 2021 conversation with Laura Beltrán-Rubio on Spain’s ⁠Imperio de la Moda⁠ or Empire of Fashion, we focus on the symbolism and significance of dress in eighteenth century Colombia.
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We revisit our 2021 interview with art and fashion historian Laura Beltrán-Rubio who joined us to share her expertise on the sartorial practices and symbolisms in Spain’s Imperio de la Moda or Empire of Fashion, beginning in the sixteenth century.
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Today's we answer several listeners' requests for an episode on the American womenswear brand Lilli Ann. One of the great runaway success stories of American 20th century fashion, the backstory of the brand takes some twists and turns from its early years in San Francisco's Chinatown, to Lilli Ann's founder's fisticuffs with New York mobsters and his surprising relationship with the French textile industry which garnered Adolph Schuman the prestigious Legion d'Honneur award.

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This week's Dressed Classic episode revisits a 2021 episode with Dr. Eugenia Paulicelli, who joined us to discuss her book Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt which examines how fashion functioned under Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy during the period between WWI and WWII.

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