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Julia Cohen & Devi Mays, "Global Threads: An Alternative History of Fin-de-Siecle Parisian Fashion"
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The history of European fashion typically focuses on singular, Christian European geniuses who conjured bold designs and created cutting-edge garments. But in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jews from the Middle East and North Africa played important roles in shaping European tastes in fashion. In this episode, Devi Mays, an associate professor of Judaic Studies and history at the University of Michigan, and Julia Phillips Cohen, an associate professor of Jewish Studies and history at Vanderbilt University, tell the story of the rise and fall of the Babanis, an Ottoman Jewish family with origins in Istanbul, Tunis, and Algiers, who built a fashion house that counted scored of prominent celebrities and socialites among its clients
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The history of European fashion typically focuses on singular, Christian European geniuses who conjured bold designs and created cutting-edge garments. But in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jews from the Middle East and North Africa played important roles in shaping European tastes in fashion. In this episode, Devi Mays, an associate professor of Judaic Studies and history at the University of Michigan, and Julia Phillips Cohen, an associate professor of Jewish Studies and history at Vanderbilt University, tell the story of the rise and fall of the Babanis, an Ottoman Jewish family with origins in Istanbul, Tunis, and Algiers, who built a fashion house that counted scored of prominent celebrities and socialites among its clients
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