L’enfant prodige de la mode (The Fashion Prodigy)

Duolingo French Podcast

Duolingo

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Alphonse Maitrepierre is a talented young designer who worked his way up to many established fashion houses in Paris. After learning from the best, he wanted to design clothes that reflected his vision and commitment to sustainability. But would the fashion world embrace him?

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0:00.0	Language supposedly has all these rules.
0:06.0	Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides
0:09.8	nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,
0:15.4	confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.
0:19.3	In Radio Lingo, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and Crooked Media, we explore how language
0:24.8	shapes our world and how our world shapes language.
0:28.4	I'm Amadella Yuckburt.
0:30.1	I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award-winning writer.
0:33.1	I am an AWV language, its complexity, and its simplicity.
0:37.3	The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.
0:40.8	I'm going to be your guide.
0:42.6	Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.
0:45.9	From Crooked Media in Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo, starting November 15th on your favorite
0:51.8	podcast apps.
0:58.1	He was July 6th, 2016, and Alphonse Metropière couldn't believe his luck.
1:05.8	He was barely 21, and he just got no job working for the iconic French designer Jean-Bulle
1:12.9	Goutier.
1:15.1	And now, Alphonse was about to attend one of the biggest fashion shows, or defile in
1:23.4	the world.
1:24.9	Paris Fashion Week.
1:29.5	Fashion Week is an incredible event.
1:33.8	Sometimes, during a week, the biggest fashion creators, such as Christian Dior, Balance
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