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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Remaking Fashion History: an Interview with John Bright

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, History

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week we sit down with Oscar-winning costume designer John Bright to discuss his prolific career in film and TV that spans five decades. A collector of historic fashion, John is the founder and owner of the world's leading costume house, Cosprop. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

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

0:15.0

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

0:18.0

at the catwalk photography from each collection

0:21.0

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

0:25.6

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

0:30.0

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

0:35.0

Eissant Laurent, Prada, Versace, and Vivian Westwood,

0:39.4

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

0:45.6

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

0:49.8

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

1:16.7

orders of any of the catwalk titles. Don't miss out on this limited time offer. Over 7 billion people in the world we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed.

1:48.0

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

1:54.2

fashion historians and your host April Callahan and

1:57.4

Cassidy Zachary. April, I am very excited for today's guests. So dress listeners, if you tuned into last week's episode,

2:05.2

then you know that I recently had the pleasure

2:07.7

of attending an exhibit at Biltmore,

2:09.9

the sprawling estate that was built by George Vanderbilt in Asheville,

2:13.3

North Carolina in the 1890s, and I was there to see their current exhibition

2:17.3

at Vanderbilt House Party, The Gilded Age, which is on view until May 27th.

2:21.5

Yeah, and last week we were joined by Bill Muir's curator of interpretation, Leslie

2:25.6

Klingner, who worked closely with today's guest, the Academy Award-winning designer

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