The With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

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 April Callahan and

Cassidy Zachary. April I would be curious to know how many of our listeners like

myself and I'm sure you wait every year with bated breath for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to announce their summer fashion exhibition.

Paired with the highly anticipated Met Gala which marks the exhibition's debut,

it is guaranteed to be a blockbuster hit and this year's

exhibition is no exception.

And cast says is because if you have not already seen the show, you still have time to see heavenly bodies,

fashion and the Catholic imagination, which is on view until October 8th.

And Cassidy and I have both had the pleasure of seeing it together and it is stunning.

Absolutely stunning and it's curated by Andrew Bolton and the exhibition explores the myriad of ways

that Catholicism specifically has influenced

fashion over the years.

And be it a quite literal interpretation or one of the more symbolic variety, this exhibition

makes very clear that this is an influence that has had a far-reaching

effect on fashion designers for decades.

Yeah, and the many ways in which fashion has engaged with the Catholic faith is evident in more than 150 ensembles

dating from the early 20th century to today.

And in an incredibly rare collaboration, the Vatican itself loaned 40 ecclesiastical pieces from the Sistine Chapel Sakestry,

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