Fashion Scandals: Madame X

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For our debut of Season 8 of Dressed, we bring you the first of our new ongoing series: Fashion Scandals. Today we whisk you into the scandal swirling around surrounding one of the most famous paintings in all of art history, John Singer Sargent's Madame X. We will meet the subject, the American-born Parisian It-Girl Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, and learn just how her appearance in Sargent's portrait shocked even the most jaded of Parisians when it was displayed at one of the world's most prestigious art exhibitions, the Salon de Paris, in 1884. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? • Our website and classes • Our Instagram • Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Dan Sousa from America's Test Kitchen.
0:03.0	I'm super excited to let you all know that we're launching a new video podcast that takes you behind the scenes into the messy, imperfect, but riveting day-to-day life right here in our test kitchen.
0:13.0	Not only do I get to talk to my colleagues about the latest taste test they attended.
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0:22.2	so I apologize. Or about a recipe they're developing. The thing about this recipe is it's a secret.
0:27.7	The restaurateur refuses to tell people what her secret ingredients are. We also chat with amazing guests
0:33.2	from the culinary world and beyond. The lameest joke I've ever said, and I said to Marie Bamford.
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1:00.8	With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
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