50 Years of the Ebony Fashion Fair, an interview with Joy Bivins
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed Media
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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For fifty years, Ebony magazine's groundbreaking Fashion Fair brought the crème de la crème of high fashion to audiences across the USA and around the globe.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress The History of Fashion is a production of I Heart Radio. For over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:27.0 | Every day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to Dressed, The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what when of why we wear. |
| 0:34.8 | We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary. |
| 0:40.2 | April, I have to say that I have had today's guest on my radar since day one of this |
| 0:46.0 | podcast. |
| 0:47.4 | I am very pleased to announce today's guest is Joy Bivens, one of the curators behind the Landmark Exhibition Inspiring Beauty, |
| 0:55.6 | 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair. |
| 0:58.4 | Co-curated by Virginia Heavens, the exhibition is the first ever to celebrate the pioneering traveling |
| 1:04.3 | fashion show and debuted at the Chicago History Museum in 2013 before traveling |
| 1:09.4 | on to several other locations just as the fashion fair did for over 50 years. |
| 1:15.4 | And while the exhibition may have only traveled to a few different locations, at its height |
| 1:19.7 | the fashion fair with 200 pieces of the most extravagant, exciting pieces of high fashion in tow |
| 1:26.4 | traveled to over 180 cities and this is just in one season. |
| 1:32.3 | So just what is the fashion fair, you might ask, |
| 1:35.2 | and why is it arguably one of the most important contributions |
| 1:38.8 | to fashion in the 20th century? |
| 1:40.9 | To answer all things fashion fair, we are pleased to welcome Joy Bivens to the show today. |
| 1:45.6 | Welcome Joy. |
| 1:46.6 | Joy, welcome to the show today. |
| 1:48.0 | It is such a pleasure to have you here with us. |
| 1:50.3 | It's really awesome to be talking with you today. |
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