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Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what win of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callaghan. Dress listeners today, we are finally making good on a promise for a very much requested episode.

Yes, we are so excited for today's episode, and that is because we are finally fulfilling

more than a few listener requests that have come to us over the years for an episode on

Emily Fluga, the Viennese fashion designer who is perhaps best known for being the longtime

companion, of course, and muse to the painter Gustav Klimt. Their unique relationship often

overshadows discussion of Emily's own

design career. And as we certainly discovered, the art historical canon has enshrined Klimt into its

pantheon with countless scholarly articles, books, exhibitions, we all know and love him. But Emily's

career has really been subject to far less scholarly inquiry.

Which, of course, makes her harder to research.

So listeners, Felicia Gutierrez and Lauren, who goes by the Dyerolf on Instagram,

we did hear your request when you submitted them oh so long ago.

It just took us a little bit to gather sufficient information

to finally bring you this episode on Emily, the Schwester and Floga Fashion House, and

the Floga sisters' personal ties and professional collaborations with arguably one of the most

famous modern painters of all time, Gustav Klimt. So born in Vienna on August 30th, 1874,

Emily was the fourth and youngest child of Erman and Barbara Floga. From his father, Ermin had

learned the art of wood turning, but later parlayed his skill into crafting fine smoking pipes,

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