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🇬🇧 A podcast about stories in fashion history hosted by Catherine Trotin, a bookovore, history nerd and fashion passionate. Now available in English and in French Music credits: Patara (feat. İlhan Erşahin) by Cagan Tunali, Noiseist Records. 🇫🇷 Un podcast sur les petites histoires de la grande histoire de la mode présenté par Catherine Trotin, une passionnée d’histoire et de mode. Maintenant disponible en français et en anglais Crédits musique : (feat. İlhan Erşahin) by Cagan Tunali, Noi ...
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EPISODE #41: Les histoires de mode & L'origine de l'identification des genres à travers les vêtements (Version française)
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Send us a Text Message. Les hommes ont-ils toujours porté des pantalons et les femmes des jupes ? Le rose a-t-il toujours été la couleur des filles et le bleu celle des garçons ? Comment faisaient les gens pour savoir si la personne en face d’eux était un homme ou une femme ? Et l’identification du genre à travers les vêtements a-t-elle toujours ét…
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EPISODE #42: Fashion Stories & The origins of gender identification through clothes (English version)
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Send us a Text Message. Have men always wear pants and women skirts? Has rose always been the color for girls and blue the color for boys? How did people do to know if the person in front of them was a man or a woman? And has gender identification through clothing been always there and important? These are some of the main questions we will try to …
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EPISODE #39: Les histoires de mode & Christian Dior, l’homme qui dessinait des femmes-fleurs (Version française)
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Send us a Text Message. Il n’est plus nécessaire de présenter Christian Dior et la maison qu'il a créée. Et cet épisode n’est pas une autre biographie du couturier français et de son héritage. Je voulais me concentrer sur un aspect particulier des inspirations de Christian Dior : les fleurs et la manière dont elles ont influencé sa perception de la…
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EPISODE #40: Fashion Stories & Christian Dior, the man who drew women-flowers (English version)
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Send us a Text Message. There is no need to introduce Christian Dior and the House he created anymore. And this episode is not another biography of the French designer and his legacy. I wanted to focus on one particular aspect of Christian Dior’s inspirations: the flowers and how they influenced his perception of fashion, femininity and silhouettes…
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EPISODE #37: Les histoires de mode au MET Gala 2024 - A la recherche d'inspirations historiques (Version française)
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Send us a Text Message. C'est désormais une institution, non seulement dans l'industrie de la mode, mais aussi sur la scène culturelle : le premier lundi de mai a lieu le MET Gala. Et il est temps pour My Fashion Stories Box Podcast de mettre sa pierre à l’édifice dans l’analyse et l’interprétation de cet événement incontournable! Dans ce nouvel ép…
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EPISODE #38: Fashion Stories at the MET Gala 2024 – In the look for historical inspiration (English version)
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Send us a Text Message. It is now an institution, not only in the fashion industry, but in the cultural scene: the first Monday in May takes places the MET Gala. And it is time for My Fashion Stories Box Podcast to put its 50 cents in the analysis and interpretation of this unavoidable event. In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast : …
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EPISODE #36: Fashion Stories and the regulation of fashion throughout the ages (English version)
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Send us a Text Message. These past months news have been filled with articles on projects of laws, regulations aiming at limiting the consumption of fast fashion items, in the objective to counterbalance their negative impacts on the environment and the acceleration of the climate change crisis. This tendency gave me the will to investigate the pas…
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EPISODE #35: Les histoires de mode et la régulation de l’accès à la mode au fils des siècles (version française)
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Send us a Text Message. Ces derniers mois, l’actualité regorge d’articles sur des projets de lois, des réglementations visant à limiter la consommation de produits issus de l’industrie de la fast fashion afin de contrecarrer leurs impacts négatifs sur l’environnement et l’accélération de la crise climatique. Cette tendance m’a donné envie de regard…
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EPISODE #34: Fashion Stories and Jeanne Toussaint, a life under the Sign of the Panther (English version)
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Send us a Text Message. I decided to dedicate this new episode to a personality from the jewelry world whose life could have inspired a novel: Jeanne Toussaint, also known as the Panther of Cartier. Who is Jeanne Toussaint ? Where does she come from ? And her unhappy love stories… How did she start working for Cartier ? What are her main contributi…
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EPISODE #33: Les histoires de mode et Jeanne Toussaint, une vie sous le signe de la Panthère (version française)
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Send us a Text Message. Pour ce nouvel épisode de My Fashion Stories Box Podcast, j’ai choisi une personnalité du monde de la joaillerie à la vie digne d’un roman : Jeanne Toussaint, surnommée la Panthère de Cartier. Qui est Jeanne Toussaint ? D’où vient-elle ? Ses histoires d’amour malheureuses. Comment a-t-elle commencé à travailler pour Cartier …
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EPISODE #32: Fashion Stories and the Touraine headdress (English version)
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to My Fashion Stories Box Podcast’s Season 4! Starting from now on, the episodes will be available in English and in French. To start this new cycle, we will talk about the local Touraine headdress. I, myself, was born in the city of Tours and my family has been living in the Touraine region for some generations, and…
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EPISODE #31: Les histoires de mode et la coiffe tourangelle (version française)
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Send us a Text Message. Bienvenus dans le premier épisode en français de My Fashion Stories Box Podcast! Dorénavant, les épisodes seront disponibles en français et en anglaise. Pour inaugurer ce nouveau cycle, les histoires de mode parleront de la coiffe tourangelle. Originaire de la Touraine, j’ai organisé le 24 novembre 2023 une conférence-exposi…
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EPISODE #30: Fashion Stories & Coco Chanel, a free spirit in the fashion industry
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Send us a Text Message. In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast, we will talk about Gabrielle Chanel, the woman who didn’t want to dress as the others. We will talk about: Her personality Her time And, how all these influenced the fashion she created. Follow me in this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast to understand the be…
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EPISODE #29: Fashion Stories & the Middle Ages, fashion at the time of the fin'amor
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Send us a Text Message. In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast, we will travel back in time to the Middle Ages and, more precisely, to the 12th century. Why this century more than another? Well, because, this is the century of the “fin’amor”, l’amour courtois or courtly love. What is the fin’amor, or courtly love? How did the 12th ce…
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EPISODE #28: Fashion Stories & Make love not war, A Story of Hippie Fashion
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode will be dedicated to the 70s fashion, the Flower Power, the Hippies and their influence on the fashion styles of this decade not like any other. In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast, we will try to answer the following questions about the Hippies: Who were the Hippies? What were their demands…
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EPISODE #27: Fashion Stories & Les Incroyables et les Merveilleuses, the post French Revolution fashion influencers
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Send us a Text Message. Did you know the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses? No? They were the post French Revolution fashion influencers, men and women with a certain fashion style, but not only… In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast, we will discover more about them. Together, we will: Understand the historical and political contex…
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EPISODE #26: Fashion Stories & Marie Antoinette: a 18th century fashion icon
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Send us a Text Message. 2023 is off a flying start with this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box podcast dedicated to the very controversial but so interesting Marie-Antoinette. In this episode, we will: Learn a bit more about Marie-Antoinette, her family, her life before moving to Versailles and becoming the future last Queen of France. See how …
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EPISODE #25: Fashion Stories & Catherine of Medici: a Renaissance fashion icon
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Send us a Text Message. The heroin of this episode is Catherine of Medici and her inputs to the fashion of her time. Together, we will: Learn a bit more about her, not so easy, life as Queen of France and the black legend around her. Discover a bit more about the Renaissance fashion for women. Go through the main inputs of Catherine of Medici into …
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EPISODE #24: Fashion Stories & the Fashion Weeks: some historical inspirations?
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Send us a Text Message. In today’s episode, I will analyse the last Paris Fashion Week which took place from September 26 to October 4 2022, showcasing the Women’s Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2023 collections. In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast: I will axe my analysis to the potential historical inspirations fashion brands and th…
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EPISODE #23: Fashion Stories & Elsa Schiaparelli – A life in Shocking Pink
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Send us a Text Message. Today, we will be all Shocking Pink with an episode dedicated to the surrealist Elsa Schiaparelli. In this episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast: we will try to understand what made Elsa Schiaparelli, the fashion phenomenon of the 30s. We will try to know who was Schiap, as she liked to nickname herself, how she ended up…
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EPISODE #22: Fashion Stories – Showcasing fashion, from the Pandora dolls to the first fashion shows, the Théâtre de la Mode and the Fashion Weeks
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Send us a Text Message. In today’s episode, we will talk about different ways that used to be used in the past to showcase new creations by tailors and designers. Showcasing fashion has always been seen as a priority by fashion creators since the development of a fashion consciousness. Indeed, it was paramount for them to make their outfits reached…
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EPISODE #21: Fashion Stories – The Story of school uniforms
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Send us a Text Message. In today’s episode, we will talk about the school uniforms, in time for the Back to School period, right? September is usually associated with going back to school for students around the world, after a long summer break. And the clothes they are going to put on for this event is a source of intensive researches in style for…
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EPISODE #20: Fashion Stories – A little story of the lace
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode will be dedicated to the lace, how it appeared and what made it a luxury. After an intensive course I took this Summer on lace, I got curious about it and decided to dig in a bit deeper. What is lace? What are the different types of laces you can find? From where does it come? What were the first usages of la…
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A new season of the Overwatch League is almost upon us. It's time to talk about the Outlaws new roster and our predictions for the season. Join us, for an all-new episode!By The Surly Nerd
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EPISODE #19: Fashion Stories, Pants and Women: a Symbol of Emancipation
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode will be dedicated to pants and women: a symbol of emancipation. Together, we will discover the backstory of pants, how they became political as a way to break with old regimes and ways of thoughts and the battles women had to fight in order to be allowed to wear them. At the end of this episode, pants won’t h…
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EPISODE #18: Fashion Stories and Paul Poiret, the designer who freed women from their corsets
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode will be dedicated to the French designer Paul Poiret, the man who freed women from their corsets. Together, we will discover who was Paul Poiret, the King of Fashion, his many sources of inspirations, how he changed the Parisian artistic life before the First World War, the woman behind his conception of woma…
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EPISODE #17: Fashion stories and The Story of the underwears - Why they became sexy
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode will be dedicated to the story of underwears and their journey to become a sexy item. Together, we will look at their origins, when and why people started to wear underwears, the first functions of underwears and the conception of hygiene people had when it came to underwears and why they became sexy. Be read…
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EPISODE #16: Fashion stories and The Story of the corset: from an instrument of torture and repression to a symbol of erotism
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode will be dedicated to the story of the corset and how this clothing element’s signification went from being an instrument of physical torture and psychological repression to a symbol of erotism. Together, we will dive into the origins of corsets, from outerwear to underwear, the symbolism linked with it, how t…
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EPISODE #15: Fashion stories and Love Brings Love
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode will be dedicated to a beautiful love declaration in the fashion world: the “Love Brings Love” show which took place on October 2021 at the end of the Paris Fashion Week. 46 designers took part in this tribute show to the late Alber Elbaz. Who was Alber Elbaz and what was his project, the AZ Factory? What was…
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EPISODE #14: Fashion stories and the Story of the Wedding Dress
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Send us a Text Message. In today’s episode, I will speak about what is considered as the most beautiful day in the life of a woman: her wedding. And I will particularly focus on the wedding dress and its history. When did we start wearing a special dress to celebrate a wedding? Has the wedding dress always been white? Are there any symbols linked w…
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EPISODE #13: Fashion stories review books: Miss Dior, A Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie
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Send us a Text Message. In today’s episode, I will review the book “Miss Dior: A story of Courage and Couture” by Justine Picardie, which was published end of 2021 and is available in French and English. Through the story of Catherine Dior, the sister of the famous designer Christian Dior, the author paints the picture of the French society just be…
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EPISODE #12: Fashion Stories and Art Deco – The Magnificent Roaring 20s
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Send us a Text Message. In today’s episode I will speak about a period in time that is particularly dear to me for many reasons: the Roaring 20s. The Magnificent Roaring 20s, the decadent decade which followed the 1st World War and the “Der des Der” (the Last of the Last) as we used to say in French. In this episode I will cover a movement, the Art…
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EPISODE #11: Fashion Stories and the striped Breton mariniere
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Send us a Text Message. In today’s episode I will speak about one of my favorite fashion items, as well as one of my favorite pattern: the mariniere and the stripes. What are the origins and meaning behind the stripes and how the striped top came from the sailors’ uniform to a basic part of our wardrobe? Listen to this new My Fashion Stories Box Po…
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This week we sat down with Robbie Landis of CheckPointXP, and discussed everything from the OWL to Final Fantasy Online. Join us heroes, for an all-new episode!By The Surly Nerd
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In this episode we speak with Lorenzo "Lordenzo" Rodriguez. Winner of the Outlaws most wanted contest and content creator for the Houston Outlaws.By The Surly Nerd
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EPISODE #10: Fashion Stories at the AW 2021/22 Istanbul Fashion Week
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode is dedicated to the AW 2021/22 Istanbul Fashion Week. A great occasion to discover very talented Turkish designers. Due to the pandemic situation, the Fashion Week took place online from April 13-16 2021. Designers became very creative in the way they presented their collections, inviting us to a journey in s…
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Did you miss our live interview with JAG, the social media manager for the Outlaws? Catch up here now!By The Surly Nerd
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EPISODE #9: Fashion stories – A short story of fast fashion (from the Industrial Revolution to the 60s, 80s and 90s onwards)
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Send us a Text Message. In our today’s episode, I will talk about fast fashion, its definition and its origins from the Industrial Revolution to nowadays. Fashion is the second most polluted industry after oil and gas and is at the origins of many social and environmental issues. By understanding how fast fashion was born and evolved over time, we …
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After an insane weekend of OWL, the gang gets together to discuss what the heck happened!By The Surly Nerd
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EPISODE #8: Fashion stories review books: Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews David
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Send us a Text Message. Books are an inherent part of my life. I literally eat books. And when I can find books mixing fashion and history, I am the happiest on Earth! Especially if the book features quality content and beautiful imagery. Fashion Victims, the dangers of dress past and present by Alison Matthews David is one of these books I had to …
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EPISODE #7: Fashion stories – Sustainable fashion practices through history
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Send us a Text Message. Hi there! And welcome to My Fashion Stories Box podcast! A podcast about stories in fashion history. I’m Catherine and I am so glad to welcome you here! Let’s discover together interesting facts about fashion and history and fashion history. In our today’s episode, I will talk about some practices people have been using thro…
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This week on the show, we get into what we could expect from the upcoming season of OWL.By The Surly Nerd
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EPISODE #6: Fashion stories – The first fashion designer in history was a woman
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Send us a Text Message. When you read about fashion history and the birth of the designers, you learn that the first tailor to be recognized as such was Charles Frederick Worth during the 19th century. But, allow me to disagree here and to introduce you to the woman who put the foundations for fashion designers and Parisian Haute Couture, Rose Bert…
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EPISODE 5: Fashion stories – The Summer of Love
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Send us a Text Message. Love & Peace or maybe more Peace & Love and Make love not war. Thus were the slogans of the Hippies in the 70s. But do you know how everything started and the influence it had on fashion? In our today’s podcast, we will travel in time during Summer 1967 also known as The Summer of Love. Follow My Fashion Stories Box Podcast …
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EPISODE #4: Fashion stories – Behind the meaning of the diamond engagement ring
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Send us a Text Message. When we say love, we think rings: the wedding ring, the engagement ring. But, what is the meaning of these rings? When did it start and why do we have diamond rings as the supreme proof of love in our modern society? This is what we will be talking about in My Fashion Stories Box Podcast, a podcast about stories in fashion h…
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EPISODE #3: Fashion stories – Love tokens in the Antiquity and Medieval times
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Send us a Text Message. Hi there! And welcome to My Fashion Stories Box podcast! A podcast about stories in fashion history. I’m Catherine and I am so glad to welcome you here! To celebrate February and the month of love, let’s discover together what people used to offer to each other as a token for their love and affection during the Antiquity and…
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EPISODE #2: Fashion stories – In Ancient Greece
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Send us a Text Message. Hi there! And welcome to My Fashion Stories Box podcast! A podcast about stories in fashion history. I’m Catherine and I am so glad to welcome you here! Follow me in the life of Leonidas and Calliope, two young people living in the powerful state-city of Athens, the city of the great goddess Athena, and discover their outfit…
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EPISODE #0: Fashion stories - Who I am and what is the podcast about
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Send us a Text Message. I am Catherine and this is My Fashion Stories Box podcast! A podcast about stories in fashion history. Follow My Fashion Stories Box Podcast on Instagram for visual diaries going along with the episodes.By Catherine Trotin
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EPISODE #1: Fashion stories – In Ancient Egypt
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Send us a Text Message. Hi! This is Catherine and My Fashion Stories Box Podcast, a podcast about stories in fashion history. Follow me in the life of Amenhotep and Anipe, two young people living during the reign of Ramses the 2nd and discover their outfits habits. Follow My Fashion Stories Box Podcast on Instagram for visual diaries going along wi…
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