Cass to say that you and I are obsessed with collecting fashion history books is of course a bit of an understatement and

Today we want to share with our listeners the very cool Cat Walk series of books by Yale University Press. a very

cat walk series of books by Yale University Press. Yes, and each volume is a comprehensive look

at the catwalk photography from each collection

and every runway show by the designer featured. So we're talking about

more than 1,000 stunningly beautiful photographs in each book.

The series includes books on Chanel, Chloe, Dior, Louis Vuitton,

Eissant Laurent, Prada, Versace, and Vivian Westwood,

which of course we have already had author Alexandra Fury on the show to discuss and we are so

pleased to announce that the newest addition to this series en jivenshi is out now.

Any of the nine Catwalk titles make the perfect holiday get or gift for the fashion lovers on your list and dress listeners can get an exclusive 25% off any of the volumes in the Cat Walk series by going to Yale Books.com and using the code Dreyf. the Just use the code dressed 25 at checkout to get 25% off and free shipping on

orders of any of the catwalk titles. Don't miss out on this limited time offer. With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dressed, The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what when of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your host Cassidy Zachary and April Callahan.

I'd like to start the show off today cast by mentioning a fascinating article that I read about a recent scientific discovery involving 1.1 billion year old marine sedimentary rocks in the Sahara Desert.

Okay, I have so much confidence in you that I know you're going to tie this into

fashion in some clever way. Just bear with me a bit. But these

particular rocks were very interesting to a set of Australian scientists because

within them they contained remnants of ancient ocean

organisms. Oh and that also implies that this region of the Sahara was covered

by water more than a billion years ago. Yes, and when they put them to some rigorous scientific analysis, the rocks revealed molecular fossils of chlorophyll that contained what is now considered the world's oldest pigment,

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