Fashion History Now #20: The Future of F...

Recorded live at the Chicago History Museum, “librarian of clothing” Jessica Pushor takes us behind the seams of her exhibition Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective. On view at the museum until July 27th, 2025, the exhibition celebrates the museum’s incredible 5 ... Show More

The Dressed Bookshelf has over 150 fashion history titles and counting! This week, we highlight some our favorite recent additions. Books discussed in the episode: Azzedine Alaia: A Couturier’s Collection Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free by Elizabeth Evitts Dicke ... Show More

Is it pink for girls and blue for boys OR is it pink for boys and blue for girls?!! Professor Jo B. Paoletti, author of Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys From the Girls in America, joins us to discuss the history of childrenswear and the role clothing plays in children's developing ... Show More

In season 2 of In Vogue: The 2000s, we explore how fashion fused with every aspect of pop culture to become a global entertainment engine ubiquitous in culture--impinging on the global consciousness like never before. From Nicholas Ghesquière awakening the sleeping fashion house ... Show More

How can we cultivate our authentic personal style in a trend-focused, overconsumption-driven world? What would it mean to truly democratize fashion — as in not the fast fashion co-opted use of the term, but genuine style democracy? And how can fashion move beyond using diversity ... Show More

Welcome to a new season of The Glam Observer Podcast. Fashion week is just around the corner so I thought it would be interesting to learn about the history of fashion week(s). In this episode we will talk about:the first fashion showthe history of New York, Milan, Paris and Lond ... Show More

Dreaming big about working at Vogue one day? In this episode, I'm sharing my the very best tips that will get you one step closer to your dream job at the top fashion magazine. We will talk about:  what to study to work at Voguewhere to find jobs/internships at Vogueresume a ... Show More

The attacks on 9/11 disrupted the entire American cultural and economic landscape. With the fashion industry in a period of instability, the next wave of fashion talent would need help to stay afloat. Vogue recognized the need to support emerging designers and in partnership with ... Show More

Vogue’s Jose Criales-Unzueta and Laia Garcia-Furtado discuss their favorite fashion at the resort shows. Also, actor Greta Lee talks to Chloe and Chioma about her new film “Past Lives” which is being called one of the best films of the year. The actor is the best kind of fashionp ... Show More

We see fashion collections, runways, and magazines... but the output of the fashion industry is not a result of creative decisions only. Before the creative work, there is something else. At the end of the day, fashion companies are a business and they need to generate profits. I ... Show More

Zanna Roberts Rassi is a fashion journalist, a television host and producer, and the co-founder of Milk Makeup. She cut her teeth in the beauty industry in London, working at magazines such as Glamour and Marie Claire UK before becoming a fashion editor at Marie Claire US. In 201 ... Show More

Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz was drawn to fashion from a young age, devouring issues of Vogue and Tatler. This led her to set up D’NA, a members-only boutique based in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. 10 years later when she closed her boutique, she became the founding editor in chief of Vogu ... Show More

Do you know what's in your closet? How many pieces of clothing have you bought from SHEIN, Zara, Fashion Nova, Uniqlo, or H&M? Patrick Bet-David discusses the horrors of the industry called Fast Fashion. It represents a massive amount of global pollution. Unveiling the Dark S ... Show More