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Top 100 Fashion Designers of All Time

Punk historian Viv Black torches six decades of festival fashion—from Woodstock's naked rebellion to Coachella's branded influencer costumes—exposing how corporate culture devoured counterculture and turned genuine self-expression into curated Instagram product. Equal parts whiskey-fueled rant and cultural autopsy. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Clothing is never just clothing.Every fibre, every colour, every silhouette is telling you something. About power, politics and whose story got told and whose didn’t. The Culture of Cloth is a podcast about learning to read that story. Starting with the cloth itself and then following it wherever it leads.Most fashion history looks at the outside. This show looks at the inside. The construction, the decisions, the invisible hands that made it, and the world those hands were living in. The women who encoded military intelligence into knitting. The weavers whose binary logic built the first ...

Vv Steele explores how history's most unforgettable figures—from monarchs to muses to rule-breakers—used fashion as power, rebellion, and cultural language. Discover what transforms personal style into iconic influence that defines entire generations. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Maya Chen exposes how appearances have always been humanity's most elaborate con game. From corsets that reshaped bodies to signal impossible virtue, to Beau Brummell's performance of wealth without a penny, each episode reveals who profits when looking the part becomes our most desperate currency. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Exploring four designers who exemplify elegance and high couture, these little books of fashion follow these brands from their creation, moving through their style evolutions, the key looks that define them and their impact on the fashion landscape today.

The dramatic untold story of Eugénie de Montijo, the woman who created haute couture, fought for women’s rights, opened France’s schools to girls and ruled the country as its last empress, yet today remains almost unknown. Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first-century...

Slaves to Fashion is a cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art world. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora.

Little Book of Louis Vuitton is the captivating story of one of the world’s most luxurious fashion houses. Louis Vuitton’s monogrammed bags have been seen on the arms of celebrities and royals alike for over 150 years. From the young Louis seeking his fortune in Paris through to two world wars, the Great Depression, the Jazz Age and the Swinging Sixties, there is no era in which this most opulent of brands hasn’t thrived.

One of the oldest Italian fashion brands in existence today, Gucci was founded in Florence in 1921. Guccio Gucci established his company with the goal of creating opulent luggage for Italy's wealthy and fashionable upper-classes. With the signature Gucci print of dark brown diamonds on a tan background, interlocking G logo and red and green stripe, the brand has gone on to become the last word in Italian luxury.

Through the generations, Hermès have created innovative and exquisite accessories for the most glamorous customers. From their nineteenth-century saddlery workshop to 1960s Paris and beyond, Hermès has graced the arms and wardrobes of style icons from Grace Kelly and Jane Birkin to Victoria Beckham and Kim Kardashian. The Little Book of Hermès tells the story of the evolution of the House of Hermès by fashion historian Karen Homer.

Whether dressed in her finery or disguised as a frump, he wanted her just the same! How can plain Frederica withstand a Season's scrutiny after the five beauties before her have married so magnificently? The only solution is to run away from home... Disguised as a chambermaid, Freddie soon finds...

FULL SEASON COMING IN LATE 2026! Hair is more than strands of protein sprouting from our scalps; it is an identifier of race, gender, interests, health, state of mind, and so much more. This podcast will get to the root of how hair—though perhaps the most universal form of self-expression—is deeply entangled in racist and oppressive systems and thought patterns, and investigates what we can do to dismantle them.

Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt.

Lauren of Fashion Grunge and friends as we talk 90s movies, fashion, music, pop culture, and a dash of reality tv!

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II. This dramatic yet little-known saga, replete with telephone taps, kidnappings, and police surveillance, centres on the furtive escapades of Tyler Kent, a handsome, womanising 28-year-old Ivy League graduate who doubles as a US Embassy code clerk and Soviet agent.

Fashion Stories, hosted by fashion designer and environmentalist Runa Ray, features female fashion changemakers, disruptors, and innovators that are uplifting and championing the global South Asian fashion community. Through the journey of Fashion Stories powered by the Fashion Impact Fund, Runa Ray showcases notable and progressive voices making a difference in their respective fields of fashion and sustainability and the important role they play in impacting change for the future of fashion and women entrepreneurs, echoing the ethos of social and environmental justice. As an innovator, Runa ...

Plongez dans les "Fashion in Paris", le podcast qui explore l'histoire et les tendances de la mode. Découvrez les créateurs innovants, les styles emblématiques et les coulisses fascinantes de l'industrie de la mode. Préparez-vous à être transporté dans un monde où la créativité et le style se rencontrent ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Brought to you by Penguin. The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - told through her unique textile scrapbook. In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments she carefully...

In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text and 10 new star profiles. Film noir was the...