Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of I art 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 host, Cassidy Zachary,

and April Callahan. Dress listeners welcome back to part two of our two part episode with

sustainable and ethical fashion designer Mimi Prober. Her work has been worn by Chloe 78,

Misty Copeland, Erica Badu, Rihanna, Billy Porter, I mean, and so many other people.

And it's also currently on view at the Costume Institute's exhibition in America,

Alexa Conniff Fashion, which is up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

And she also concurrently has an exhibition at Carinelle University in upstate New York.

And her ethos of reclaiming, reusing, and reviving is part of what we think the future of fashion

needs to be. So we are so pleased to welcome her back to learn more. Mimi, welcome back to Dress.

I want to touch back on the dye stuff that you use, because some of them are very cool,

not just flowers, but like avocados. Will you talk to us a little bit about this?

Yeah, so basically each season, we try to incorporate a new natural color and technique. So within our

color palettes, we use everything from fresh and discarded flowers. They do not have to be alive.

We work with local flower farms and florists to rescue their discarded flowers. We also work with

farmers for American grown natural indigo. And then going to the avocado, we did a collection,

and then we continue to use this into our color palette where it was garden to plate. So the idea

was to incorporate avocado as well as pomegranate. And avocado creates this beautiful dusty rose color

that has quickly become my favorite color personally. It's just such a soft and deep beauty

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