Dress listeners, Bonjour from Paris.

Yes, we are currently on our annual summer hiatus from the show as we conduct our summer fashion

history tours of the City of Lights.

But worry not, we will be back in August with brand new content dedicated to all of the

exciting fashion history exhibitions and other behind-the-scenes experiences we have encountered

well here.

Until then, please enjoy this episode from the Dressed Archive of over 500 past shows.

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Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what win of why we wear.

We are friends, fashion historians, and your host, Cassie Zachary, and April Callahan.

Yeah. your host, Cassie 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, Cass and I took a tiny little break for a bit while 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 fill 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,

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