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

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

Every day we all get dressed.

Welcome to Trust, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who, what, when, and why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Callahan.

Listeners, the subject of this week's two-part episode once remarks the following.

Quote, it's the dogma of the last century that you throw away the past.

It's like telling a scientist to throw his laboratory away.

If you throw it away, you get rid of all the technique.

You have to go back to the past.

And as fashion historians, this quote sets our hearts of pitter-patter,

because this is exactly what we endeavor to do with all of you twice a week here on Dressed.

Yes, we certainly do.

And people ask us all the time when they find out that we're podcasters, what our show is about.

And yes, it's about clothing, but more broadly about how clothing can be a lens to explore all of these other themes

and stories embedded in the human experience.

I mean, that's why we do what we do because of the storytelling aspect of clothing.

And how examining fashion's past can illuminate our shared present.

And this is something that our subject also explored in her work.

And we are, of course, speaking about the recently departed Dame Vivian Westwood.

Today, we continue our exploration of her 50 plus year career in fashion.

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