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Dressed: The History of Fashion

A Vanderbilt House Party--The Gilded Age, an Interview with Leslie Klingner

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week we go behind the scenes of Biltmore Estate's latest exhibition A Vanderbilt House Party--The Gilded Age with the estate's Curator of Interpretation Leslie Klingner. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Cass to say that you and I are obsessed with collecting fashion history books is of course a bit of an understatement and

0:07.0

Today we want to share with our listeners the very cool Cat Walk series of books by Yale University Press. a very

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cat walk series of books by Yale University Press. Yes, and each volume is a comprehensive look

0:18.0

at the catwalk photography from each collection

0:21.0

and every runway show by the designer featured. So we're talking about

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more than 1,000 stunningly beautiful photographs in each book.

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The series includes books on Chanel, Chloe, Dior, Louis Vuitton,

0:35.0

Eissant Laurent, Prada, Versace, and Vivian Westwood,

0:39.4

which of course we have already had author Alexandra Fury on the show to discuss and we are so

0:45.6

pleased to announce that the newest addition to this series en jivenshi is out now.

0:49.8

Any of the nine Catwalk titles make the perfect holiday get or gift for the fashion lovers on your list and dress listeners can get an exclusive 25% off any of the volumes in the Cat Walk series by going to Yale Books.com and using the code Dreyf. the Just use the code dressed 25 at checkout to get 25% off and free shipping on

1:16.7

orders of any of the catwalk titles. Don't miss out on this limited time offer. With over 7 billion people in the world world we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed.

1:48.0

Welcome to Dressed The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what when of why we wear.

1:54.0

We are fashion historians and your host April Callahan

1:57.0

and Cassidy Zachary.

1:59.0

So April, I am curious, when you think of a house party what comes to mind?

2:04.7

Well I think that would lead me back to the good old days of college, you know,

2:10.9

way too many people crowded into your friends like crappy rundown house. There's definitely a keg somewhere.

2:18.0

Everyone is smoking so when you wake up you in the next morning your hair smells like smoke and usually at the end of the night

2:25.8

you're searching for your bag perhaps a little intoxicated under everyone's

2:29.5

giant pile of coats so that's my concept of half the party. Yeah and being from

2:36.0

New Mexico at my house party standards are quite relaxed as well so if somebody

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