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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Fashion Oracle: Trend Forecasting to Paper Dolls with David Wolfe

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to David Wolfe about his sixty plus year career in fashion working as a groundbreaking trend forecaster, fashion illustrator, and paper doll artist. David's work: https://davidwolfetrendfutures.com https://paperdollywood.com David's interview on The Decoder Ring podcast: https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/decoder-ring-explores-the-history-and-symbolism-of-the-paper-doll.html Support 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

Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio.

0:22.8

Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

0:26.5

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:28.5

Welcome to Dress the history of fashion.

0:30.9

A podcast where we explore the who, what, when, of why we wear.

0:34.6

We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary.

0:40.3

While dress listeners, today's guest, David Wolfe, has been called,

0:43.9

quote, a true force in the industry, one of the fashion industries,

0:47.9

most authoritative sharpshooters and the oracle on fashion trends.

0:52.9

I love that so much, so great, so charming.

0:58.0

So all of these quotes are referencing the almost five decade long reign of today's guests

1:03.6

as one of the world's leading fashion trend forecasters.

1:07.7

This is actually a profession in April that we have not delved into on the show at all

1:11.6

in all of our seasons.

1:13.2

So we are very excited to talk to David today and learn more about it.

1:17.1

And David is a man of many, many hats, many of what he wore all at the same time.

1:23.6

He was also a magazine editor and an internationally sought after fashion illustrator.

1:29.3

And today he is an acclaimed paper doll artist specializing in recreating that

1:34.0

oat Hollywood glam of our favorite stars from cinematic history.

1:37.8

Needless to say, his career has quite the trajectory.

1:41.7

And we are so pleased to welcome David to the show to discuss his 60 year career in fashion.

1:46.8

David, thank you so much for joining us.

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