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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Fashioned from Nature in China: An Interview with Edith Cheung, Part I

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On view now at Design Society, Shenzhen, the V&A's exhibition Fashioned from Nature traces the complex relationship between fashion and nature over a 2,300 year period. Guest curator Edith Cheung joins us to discuss the Chinese fashions and textiles featured in the exhibition’s new section Fashioned from Nature in China: Then and Now. Exhibition details: http://www.designsociety.cn/en/category/event-list/detail!fashioned-from-nature Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport 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

Just the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio.

0:22.7

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

0:26.3

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:28.4

Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion.

0:30.8

A podcast that explores the who, what, when, why we wear.

0:34.6

We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan.

0:38.0

And Cassidy Zachary.

0:40.2

So this past December, Shenzhen's design society teamed up with the China National Silk

0:45.3

Museum, which I just want to say is the largest silk museum in the world.

0:49.5

And they also teamed up with London's V&A, the Victorian Albert Museum,

0:53.2

to bring the V&A's 2018 exhibition, Fashioned from Nature to China.

0:58.5

And they added an incredible new section,

1:01.0

entitled Fashioned from Nature in China, then and now,

1:04.3

which really celebrates the incredible innovations of Chinese fashion and textiles,

1:08.5

historically and today.

1:10.2

And Fashioned from Nature is the first dress and textile exhibition at the design

1:14.8

society, whose deputy director, Jo Rong, recently commented,

1:20.1

Designed Society has endeavored to drive cross-cultural dialogues and critical thinking

1:24.9

around design. The V&A and China National Silk Museum hold the most important collections

1:30.9

of fashion worldwide.

1:32.8

To present this exhibition in the pandemic,

1:35.2

we hope to see these treasured objects in a new light,

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