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Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion.

A podcast that explores the who, what went of why we were.

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan.

Dress listeners, Cassidy and I are super excited about this week's episodes,

and I say episodes plural, as this will be a two-parter this week,

a very long overdue two-parter, I must say, for one, two, three, four, five seasons now,

I have been promising you all this episode.

And as many of you know, Cassidy took a tiny little break for a bit.

Well, she was on maternity leave, and I, well, I just took a much-needed break.

And well, I was off, I kind of started to feel this itch that I needed to scratch.

I was really dying to dive headfirst into some sort of a research rabbit hole.

And I thought, who better to focus on than one of the most important fashion designers of all time.

And definitely one of the most influential in the history of American fashion.

Hands down.

I mean, April is, of course, speaking of the fashion phenom and iconoclast Claire McCartle.

As fashion historian Valerie still has written, quote,

it is impossible to imagine a Calvin Klein or a Donna Karen or a Mark Jacobs

had their not first been Claire McCartle, unquote.

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