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fashismfashismThe MOMA GenesisWhat did it take to bring modern art to the US? A guy named Alfred Barr Jr., some rich broads, and Picasso finally realizing he hated war. Thus, the Museum of Modern Art was born.   Also, we are switching to a seasonal schedule to check out our socials for our Summer Reading List (soon!) and make sure to follow us and tune in for Season 2 coming in September. @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2023-06-241h 32fashismfashismVivienne Westwood: Pirates, Harris Tweed, and PortraitVivienne Westwood's runway collections in the 80s and 90s erupted from her research into and obsession with British and French aristocracy. Her belief that culture has waned since the revolutionary era leaps off the runway once you're looking for it. Also did you know there's an island in Scotland where a bunch of hunks are weaving fabric and chanting affirmations? Delta pls sponsor us!   We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2023-05-251h 04fashismfashismVivienne Westwood: Anglomania and Saving the WorldBuckle up cause this is a jam packed trip. Jackie and Hope cover tid bits of her blossoming into the fashion designer that shaped her career and legacy. From the break up with Malcolm to her environmentalist protesting days, we got it covered.  Listen in to your friends chatting about all the stuff that they know about Vivienne Westwood. xoxo   Main Sources: Vivienne Westwood - Ian Kelly and Vivienne Westwood An Unfashionable Life - Jane Mulvagh   We're socialists, so follow us on our soc...2023-05-121h 33fashismfashismVivienne Westwood and the Roots of PunkVivienne Westwood is a fashion designer who was known for drawing from historical influences and sending messages with her designs. She got her start within the punk scene, brought parody of British royalty into her runways designs, and later became focused on climate issues. And so more so than with other designers we are drawn to asking questions about her ideologies - how did they develop, and to some degree, how genuinely are they reflected in her work?   If you think you have deja vu, you don't. We did do a Vivienne Westwood series last y...2023-04-271h 06fashismfashismWelp, This Had to Happen at Some PointHope and Jackie check in with a quick What's Trending and a plea for some feedback to keep them going down this long winding road called having a podcast. We have been busy toiling away preparing for our new and improved Vivienne Westwood series and also dancing and having existential crises so now would be a good time to tell us we're doing a good job by giving us 5 stars or telling your friends to listen. Or don't! See you in two weeks with the first of two new episodes about Vivienne Westwood. Also sorry about the...2023-04-1420 minfashismfashismSlut FashionHope and Jackie get into bed with fashion history. This episode got it's interesting points on how sex work has impacted the fashion world over time. *Spoiler alert* Sex workers were typically the ones with the cutting edge trends, now and in Ancient Roman times. You will have to just listen to find out all of fashion's dirty lil secrets. xxxx     We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2023-03-311h 03fashismfashismRhinestone Nudie Suits and the Queering of Country MusicThey're sparkly, they're colorful, they bear images of palm trees and wagon wheels - so why were they worn by dudes who claim to be more interested in race cars than music? Hope and Jackie dissect the meaning of Nudie Suits, sewn for country music stars in the 1940s by Southern California immigrant tailors, before country music turned its back on camp. The story of country music and its dress is one of working class branding, evolving masculine identities, and yes, Orville Peck (though we ALMOST forgot to bring him up.) Go on, get to listenin'!   2023-03-161h 11fashismfashismPoly Styrene and Dayglow: Energy turned to Screaming ColorHope and Jackie are back at it again, returning with some ear hole goodness. This time we discuss fashion icon, punk musician, and writer Poly Styrene. She wore a highlighter color scheme that interlaced with her sound, poetry, and art. Her fashion shouted out to the world how scrupulous her frenemy relationship to Dayglo could be. So we dove into the world of Dayglo and asked the important questions, like wtf is Dayglo anyway? Well we get into it and it isn't what you think it is. Tune in to find out!   Some r...2023-03-021h 05fashismfashismChromophobia and the Truth about PlatoHope and Jackie are back with a full spectrum take on David Batchelor's book Chromophobia and the conversation around the disappearance of color from our world. It's a topic that touches everything from minimalism to Bauhaus, Beige Moms to the Kardashians, Aristotle to... Jesus? Be there or be austere.   Sources: Chromophobia by David Batchelor Science Museum Group Digital Lab study   We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2023-02-181h 21fashismfashismLee Miller: WWII, Farming, and Norwegian Cooking (Pt 2)First off, her son who wrote her biography, knows way too much about her sex life. Or are we being to judgey? Second off, Lee Miller is known not only to be war correspondent for Vogue during WWII, she also was the world renown chef for some of the worst food. She really can do it all.  Apologize for those who got this episode with the not so good sound quality from before. Would it be a fashism epsiode tho with out some technical difficulties?!   Sources: The Lives of Lee Miller by...2023-02-031h 10fashismfashismSurrealist Muse, Vogue Photographer, and Tortured Taurus: Lee Miller (Pt 1)Hope and Jackie have fallen for Lee Miller (1907-1977), an iconic 1920s Vogue model, surrealist photographer, and champion of the sad girl aesthetic. Did she meet Conde Nast on the street after almost running into traffic? Was her relationship with her dad creepy by any decade's standards? How did she sneak breast tissue out of a surgery and why did she take a picture of it on plate? These are all topics up for discussion. Sources: The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose Lee Miller in Fashion by Becky Conekin  2023-01-201h 01fashismfashismMarxist Fashion Predictions 2023 *updated*Jackie got off her meds for a few weeks, and while high on a slight tinge of manic, got to writing on this episode. It's a jam packed episode - we go over last year trends, including indie sleaze and cottage core and then take a peak forward to see what to expect for the year of 2023.  We used WGSN 2023 consumer white page reports, the free ones essentially. We also took from The Daily podcast, and discussed their episode on unions.  Lesbian Knitting: From Self-Sufficiency to Self-Representation by Eleanor Medhurst I can't cite ev...2023-01-071h 26fashismfashismSeattle and the Antifashion of it AllIt started with some click bait from The Stranger, touting Seattle as the antifashion capital of the world. Hope and Jackie, famously unenthused by Seattle's relentless dependence on outdoor wear, nevertheless had to set the record straight about what exactly antifashion is. The resulting episode melds their thoughts on The Stranger piece by Charles Mudede, the history of antifashion as told by documentarian Olivier Nicklaus, as well as a collection of tangents that for whatever reason you keep coming back for.   References: Seattle is the Antifashion Capital of the World by Charles Mudede2022-12-211h 11fashismfashismEdward Enninful Part 3: the Vogue eraHope and Jackie cover the final episode on Edward Enninful's A Visible Man and it's a doozy. More bad Italian accents and Kate Moss anecdotes.  There is even a part where Kate Moss sings to him in front of a bunch of people, then give's Edward Enninful's mother-in-law a kabuki "make-over", which I don't know, sounds bizarre. Especially considering this is at Edward's big, fancy award party in London. Like how does she have that kind of make up on hand like that? Is she just carrying around a bag of make up with the hopes of g...2022-12-081h 10fashismfashismEdward Enninful Part 2: Rising through the Ranks of the 90s Fashion WorldHope and Jackie continue to recap A Visible Man by Edward Enninful, featuring anecdotes about Kate Moss and very sad attempts at Italian accents.   We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2022-11-251h 21fashismfashismEdward Enninful Part 1: The Younger Years, From Ghana to London to i-DWe are starting our Edward Enninful deep dive! We read A Visible Man by Edward Enninful, hot off the press. Then we discuss are parties still happening? Jackie says no, Hope disagrees. Listen in!!   We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2022-11-111h 10fashismfashismHarajuku, According to Some French PhiloshophersJackie and Hope are dissecting Power Play and Performance in Harajuku, an article by writer, art historian, and baby bangs icon Amelia Groom. It's basically a who's who of fashion theory and philosophy so get ready to chew on some ideas from Roland Bartes, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, and even Plato! Please hold their hands as they wade through this delightfully jam-packed text. We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2022-10-281h 55fashismfashismWhy We’re Corset ApologistsHello, we’re getting into the corset and all it's makings. Listen in for how children are like trees and how quotes have been on underwear for a very long time.  The Corset; the Cultural History by Valerie Steele is who we referenced.  We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2022-10-141h 21fashismfashismThe Panopticon and the September IssueThey're back, with more vocal fry than ever! If you thought the title was something clever, it's not, it's exactly what the episode is about! Hope and Jackie watch the 2009 documentary The September Issue, which features Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, and the whole Vogue #family as they work on the biggest issue of the year. Instead of watching for funzies, they watch through the lens of Michel Foucault's theory of Panopticism, thinking about the power that Vogue has over our ideas of norms. Enjoy! We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok2022-09-291h 25fashismfashismSusan Sontag’s Notes on CampWe are getting into the camp of it all. Hope did some reading on Susan Sontag's Notes on Camp and Jackie tried her hardest not to interrupt. What is camp anyways? Well we dive right into the red, heart shaped pool of camp and swim around the bedazzled remains of our rotting brains for the answers. For the sound bit, Jackie's computer crashed, and she doesn't want to hear about how you’re suppose to back up everything every day. She didn't ok! They recorded and the next day gone. So our solution is to amplify her vo...2022-09-151h 11fashismfashismChris Smalls, Bama Rush, and Ebony Mag’s Fashion FairIt's a media haul episode, so Hope and Jackie are dining on a cornucopia of juicy topics. They discuss the recent Wall Street Journal article that contemplated the fashion choices of Chris Smalls and other labor organizers. Jackie talks about 3 takeaways she has after a rigorous review of Bama Rush Tiktok. Hope explains an event called Prada Frames where idol-of-the-pod Anna Tsing gave a talk. And finally, they talk about The Beauty of Blackness, a documentary on the revamp of former Ebony Magazine makeup brand Fashion Fair. Come and feast with them and they promise to never use this...2022-09-011h 02fashismfashismVivienne Westwood Part II: Pirates, corsets, and Emily StochlJackie and Hope still need to work on their intro. They discuss bleeding out and where animals went to hide before modern architecture. Then to the meat of it: they discuss Vivienne Westwood's break out collection, Pirates, and the rest is history. Emily Stochl joins at the end to talk about Vivienne's activism and what it means to be an activist within the fashion world. Check out the Fabric Act and sign the petition! instagram: @emilymstochl and tiktok: @emilymstochl We discuss the book The Unfashionable Life of Vivienne Westwood by Jane Muvalgh 2022-08-181h 48fashismfashismVivienne Westwood Part I: Teddy Boys, Punk, and the SituationistsHope and Jackie talk about the British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, whose working class roots and punk rock path to fashion make for a truly juicy story. This episode focuses on these earlier years, including her relationship with Malcolm McLaren, who was involved with The Situationists and later formed the band The Sex Pistols. They definitely fudge the story of Sid and Nancy but please forgive them.   Episode based on An Unfashionable Life by Jane Mulvagh, Threaducation, and other sources.   We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.2022-08-051h 17fashismfashismAnna Wintour Part IIIIn our third installation on the colonial broad herself, Anna Wintour, we discuss the more recent pop culture aspect of her life. Listen in for some piping, hot tea on New York socialites.    We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2022-07-211h 28fashismfashismAnna Wintour Part IWho da fuq is Anna Wintour? Well, for those that live under a rock, she basically runs Vogue magazine and one of the last powerful media heads to exist.  We dive into Anna Wintour, the Biography by Amy Odell We highly suggest the read, it really gives you a deep look behind those iconic sunglasses.    We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com 2022-06-241h 22fashismfashismThe Barefoot Canne-tessasIt's a media haul, bimbos! Hope and Jackie are talking about the class action lawsuit brought against the Salvation Army for abusing the criminal justice system. To wash that down, they chat about the Canne film festival dress code and all the brave elites who have dared break it. Still itching for more content? Last on the docket is the Trends are Dead piece - they have opinions. Trends are Dead by Terry Nguyen   We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@g...2022-06-091h 21fashismfashismIs She an Androgynous Fashion Icon or is She Just Wearing Pants?This week, Hope and Jackie manage to talk about basketball while also referencing Toward an Anthropology of Women and asking tough questions like "why won't our therapists help us party?" But the main dish is androgyny : what does it mean to dress androgynous now and what has it meant throughout the 20th century? We can't reeeaaally answer that question, but we can bring you a discussion about actress Marlene Dietrich, former NBA player Dennis Rodman, professional layabout Betty Catroux, and much beloved David Bowie. Enjoy!   Correction: Jackie meant Rebel Wilson when she said Busy Phillips. P...2022-05-251h 23fashismfashismEtsy Strike, Met Gala, and the Coastal Grandma AestheticWe got it all here folx! It's a media haul episode and we are chatting about all the important stuff: the Etsy strike, our Met Gala roundup, and the recently coined "coastal grandma" aesthetic. We bleep out the Kardashians names which is funny? Or edgy? Maybe it's just annoying. Basically the title of our episode is what we discuss, but it's a juicy one so listen in!!   Also we are socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok 2022-05-121h 16fashismfashismThe Euphoria EpisodeHope and Jackie couldn't let the Euphoria craze pass without putting their two cents in (spoiler level 1/5). With surprisingly spare Sam Levinson ranting but a healthy dose of Heidi Bivens stanning, they bring you behind the scenes tidbits on the most tweeted-about show to date -- the offscreen drama, the common critiques, and yes, the costuming (but TBH that doesn't come until 30ish minutes in.) Join them as they dive into the outfits that made this show worth watching and let them know which character you're sartorially channeling this year! We're socialists! Follow us on the socials...2022-04-131h 26fashismfashismAre You Surreal?Their self-proclaimed Best Sounding Episode Yet, this week Hope and Jackie are bringing you hard hitting journalism as they talk to a worker from a Crossroads Trading location that is in the process of unionizing (and getting busted.) Next, Hope talks about the connection between fashion and surrealism in the early 20th century, featuring scuffles between art bros, furry teacups, and of course, Elsa Schiaparelli. Call to action: Tell Crossroads: Don't Union Bust bit.ly/crossroadsworkers Main surrealism reference: The Surreal Body: Fetish and Fashion by Ghislaine Wood We're socialists! Follow us on...2022-03-281h 44