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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Rébé: Haute Couture Embroidery, an interview with Nadia Albertini

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today we are podcasting LIVE from Paris! Haute couture embroidery designer, archivist and author Nadia Albertini joins us to discuss her 3-year project (and book!) uncovering the forgotten history of the French embroidery house of Rébé, who created some of the most spectacular embroideries used by Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy and Cristóbal Balenciaga. RECOMMENDED READING: Albertini, Nadia. Rébé: broderies haute couture. Montreuil, France: Gourcuff Graden, 2021. Support this podcast or sign up to listen AD-FREE Advertising Inquiries Privacy & Opt-Out Support 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

Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of Dressed Media.

0:21.5

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

0:25.6

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:27.8

Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion.

0:30.1

The podcast are we explore that who went of why we were.

0:34.0

We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan.

0:37.5

And Cassidy Zachary.

0:40.2

Dress listeners, I have to say April, this is a first for us because we are recording live in

0:46.3

Paris. Yes, this is, we've actually recorded live a few times, but this is our first

0:50.5

international live recording. So everyone in the audience, you want to give a little cheer and say,

0:56.4

hello.

1:00.0

Yes, because of course, we are on our Dressed Fashion History Tour of Paris.

1:03.8

And we have so many of our beloved listeners here with us.

1:06.7

And this is such a special treat to be joined here by you all.

1:10.0

And of course, by today's guest, Nadia Avertini.

1:14.1

Welcome to Dressed.

1:15.9

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm thrilled to be here.

1:19.2

And it's a joy to have you all here in Paris today.

1:22.4

Yeah, and Dress listeners, if Nadia's name and voice sounds familiar,

1:26.0

it's because she has already joined us on the show back in 2019 for a two-part episode on the

1:32.0

history of embroidery. And Nadia, I would love if you would maybe reintroduce yourself to us

1:39.1

and tell us a little bit about your background, how you ended up in Paris and what you do here.

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