Fashion is both your desire to project yourself as an individual within a group, but also say that you are part of a group to outsiders. Rich people might want to dress like artists, and artists might take inspiration from the working class. So I think class plays a role that's not as simple as who owns money. It's more like who has social capital.
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear. Host and producer Avery Trufelman investigates our collectively held beliefs about fashion and explores topics like the intellectual property law behind knockoffs, creation of tartan and the history of plaid, and how a dolls in a rural museum in Washington state saved French haute couture. This new season investigates a style that keeps coming back again and again and again.
Previously part of 99% Invisible, the show is now an independent production and a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.