Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of I Heart Radio.

With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed. Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores

the who, what, when, of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary,

and April Callian. So, dress listeners, this week's two episodes are what we hope is an introduction

to many of you as to what we think the future of fashion should probably look like. And fashion

designer Mimi Prober is going to join us to speak about her incredible work that basically

encompasses the history, the present, and the future of fashion. Yes, April. And this week's topic is

a bit of a continuation from last week's for our regular listeners. Last week, Asha Barber joined

us for a super enlightening conversation about the intersections of fashion, sustainability,

human rights, and the health of our planet. April, you and Asha chatted about what we as consumers

can do to adjust our buying habits to, of course, correct, you know, the damage that fashion has

really wreaked on our globe. Yeah. And this is exactly why I wanted to pair last week's episodes

with this week's episodes with Mimi because she is actually implementing all of these ideologies

into her own personal practices and her company in really incredibly important ways. And her work

is actually currently on view with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, exhibition in America,

Alexa Kona Fashion, which is, of course, at the costume institute, and also in an exhibition at

Cornell University, which is in upstate New York, because recently she's been the designer in

residency there. So we have so much to learn from Mimi's slow ways of making garments.

Mimi, a way overdue welcome to dress. We are big fans.

Mimi, thank you so much for joining us today. Like I was saying earlier, we have been

meeting to have you on the show for a minute. And so because so many things are happening

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