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

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress, 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 Callahan.

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 V&E's fashion designer who is perhaps best known for being the longtime companion of course

and news 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

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 dire role on

Instagram, we did hear your request when you submitted them so long ago. It just took us a little

bit to gather sufficient information to finally bring you this episode on Emily, the Shwestern

Sloga fashion house, and the Fluga 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 Irman and Barbara Fluga. From his father,

Irman had learned the art of woodturning but later parlayed his skill into crafting fine smoking

pipes, the demand for which afforded the Fluga family and upper middle class lifestyle.

And it seems that destiny ordained the pass of the Fluga and the Klimt families to meet.

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