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Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion.

A podcast where we explore the who-what-win of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan.

Dress listeners, we are putting on our Dressed Detective hats today again to do a little bit of time travel.

We're going to jump all the way back to the ancient world before we jump forward in time

and then we're going to jump back again and forward again and bounce around a little bit until we get up into the very present day.

Yes, because today we are going to discuss Egyptomania, aka, quote-unquote, the Western world's long-standing fascination with ancient Egyptian culture and aesthetics.

So from the time of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922,

to museum exhibitions featuring the treasures found in Tut's tomb, which travel the United States in the 1970s,

ways of Egyptomania swept the world during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

And as we all learn today, the craze for all things Egyptian and other cultures actually predates the modern world, Cass.

So today, Darnell Jamal-Lizzi, the assistant curator of fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art,

joins us to discuss their current exhibition, Egyptomania, Fashion's conflicted obsession,

which looks at how fashion design has looked to Egypt for inspiration over the centuries,

pairing ancient Egyptian objects with the museum's own collection of prints, photographs, and decorative art objects,

and of course, fashion, which has been created by non-adgyptian makers, the show interrogates issues of cultural appropriation

and details histories very long and very tangible obsession with ancient Egypt.

We cannot wait to learn more, Darnell, thank you so much for joining us today.

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