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Nov 2019
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Fashion History Mystery #37: Fashion as ...

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Artist. Fashion Designer. Activist. Korina Emmerich joins us to talk about her fashion brand Emme and the ways in which her indigenous heritage and commitment to the Fashion Revolution movement inform her work.

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