Mayor of Fashion Town, an interview with Fern Mallis

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Fern Mallis joins us today to speak about her career which spans six decades of shaping, supporting and championing first American fashion, and later turning her expertise towards developing fashion weeks around the globe. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠classes⁠⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠⁠bookshelf⁠⁠⁠ with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the ⁠⁠⁠AirWave Media⁠⁠⁠ network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of dress media.
0:42.3	With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
0:44.4	Every day, we all get dressed.
0:50.8	Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what win of why we wear.
0:56.1	We are friends, fashion historians, and your host, Cassie Zachary and April Callahan. Dress listeners as a fashion history podcast. It's an occasion few and far between
1:03.2	when we have contemporary fashion designers, movers, shakers, models, etc. on the show. There are
1:09.6	more than a few podcasts out there that cover the global
1:12.6	contemporary fashion world quite well. So Cass and I's general guideline on this is that we invite
1:20.6	living legends only on the show in terms of contemporary designers. Which means that if we are issuing that caveat for today's episode, you are in for an extra special treat.
1:32.7	The rare exception on dress when our guest has quite literally shaped not only the history of fashion,
1:38.0	but also continues to do so into its present and of course its future.
1:42.7	And I just want to say here that looking in from the outside, fashion can appear to be an
1:47.3	extremely glamorous industry to work in, and sometimes it is, right?
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