Re-Dressed: Fashionable Filipinas
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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This week we revisit our season one episode where we explored the origins and evolution of the Filipino terno with Gino Gonzales, co-author with Mark Lew Higgins of the book Fashionable Filipinas: An Evolution of the Philippine National Dress in Photographs 1860-1960.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:22.7 | Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:26.6 | Every day, we all get dressed. Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore |
| 0:32.6 | the who, what, when, of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your hosts, April Callahan, |
| 0:38.4 | and Cassidy Zacharyne. Okay, Dress listeners, as promised in this week's Tuesday episode, |
| 0:44.7 | on the groundbreaking Filipino fashion designer Salvash Yomlin Higgins, we are actually |
| 0:51.0 | re-airing a season one episode with Gino Gonzalez on fashionable Filipinas. We hope you enjoy. |
| 1:03.4 | April, I have to say I am particularly excited about today's episode because not only are we |
| 1:09.1 | traveling back in time, but we are traveling across the world because today we are talking about |
| 1:14.6 | the fashion history of the Philippines. And that's right, a country which holds a special place in |
| 1:20.5 | my heart cast because as you know, my boyfriend Ali is a Filipino heritage. You know, I have come |
| 1:26.8 | close. As you know, I've spent a lot of time in Southeast Asia, but I have not yet been to the |
| 1:31.6 | Philippines, which is a country comprised of a collection of islands. Yeah, and this is no small |
| 1:37.4 | collection either. It actually has more than 7,000 islands. Wow. And thanks to the power of the |
| 1:44.0 | internet actually, today's guest Gino Gonzalez is joining us all the way from the country's |
| 1:48.8 | capital of Manila. After receiving his MFA and theater design from NYU, Gino has enjoyed quite |
| 1:55.2 | the successful career he's designed sets and costumes for well over 100 theater productions in Manila, |
| 2:01.0 | Singapore, China, Taiwan, Japan, and New York. And he currently lectures in the fine arts program |
| 2:06.5 | at the University of the Philippines. And we are here today because in 2015, Gino co-wrote the beautiful |
| 2:13.6 | book, Fashionable Filipinas, an evolution of the Philippine National Dress in Photographs, |
| 2:19.2 | 1860 to 1960. And he wrote this with Mark Lewis Higgins. And the book traces the evolution of the |
| 2:25.8 | Philippine National Dress from its beginnings as they trahetized mestiza to the turno over the course |
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