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Rebecca Arnold & Beatrice Behlen discuss fashion - listen to our personal fashion views in our weekly catch up calls. Rebecca is a fashion historian, Beatrice is curator at the Museum of London.
Latest episodes

May 13, 2018 • 30min
Passing & Performance
We discuss the intricacies of dress as passing and dress as performance.
Passing: Fashion in American Cities (2018): https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/passing-fashion-american-cities
Modes pratiques: https://www.modespratiques.fr/special-issue.html
Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile (2014): http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368101
Jennie Livingston, Paris is Burning (1990): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/

May 5, 2018 • 33min
Fancy Dress & Fashion Photos
We discuss the fascination of fancy dress and the wonders of fashion photography up close.
Weldon's Fancy Dress Catalogue (1920s): https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/536070.html
A Dress for Spring (2015): http://blog.museumoflondon.org.uk/dress-spring/
Screen Archive South East - Fashion: http://screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/portfolio/screen-search-fashion/
V&A Prints & Drawings Study Room: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/study-rooms#prints-drawings-study-room
Martin Munkacsi at ICP: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/martin-munkacsi?all/all/all/all/0

Apr 29, 2018 • 32min
Family History & Jewellery
We discuss interviewing family members (and others) for fashion history, and the wonders of Bonham’s jewellery sales.
Exploring 20th Century London website: http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/
'All about my mother' - article in sisterMag (2012): https://tinyurl.com/y6upplox
Instagram account of Bonhams' jewellery department: @bonhamsjewels
Instagram account of Emily Barber: @gemilybarber

Apr 22, 2018 • 30min
Fashion & Nature
We discuss fashion’s fascination with nature and related ethical issues, prompted by the new V&A exhibition Fashioned From Nature.
V&A exhibition: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/fashioned-from-nature
Centre for Sustainable Fashion at LCF: http://sustainable-fashion.com/
Fashion Revolution: https://www.fashionrevolution.org/
Emily Manning on Katharine Hamnett for i-D.vice: https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/3kqjzn/why-fashions-eco-warrior-katharine-hamnett-is-kanyes-main-muse

Apr 15, 2018 • 35min
Jil Sander & Azzedine Alaïa
We discuss exhibitions that show Jil Sander and Azzedine Alaia’s purity of vision.
Jil Sander exhibition: http://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/museum/exhibitions/jil-sander-present-tense.html
Azzedine Alaïa website: http://www.alaia.fr/en/home.html#
Vogue's review of the show (2018): https://www.vogue.com/article/azzedine-alaia-je-suis-couturier

Apr 7, 2018 • 29min
Rosamond Bernier & Pockets
We discuss Rosamond Bernier’s extraordinary life, and wonder about pockets.
Watch a clip of Rosamond Bernier’s lecturing at The Metropolitan Museum here: http://www.rosamondbernier.com/
Leslie Camhi’s 2011 article on Rosamond Bernier for Vogue:
https://www.vogue.com/article/rosamond-bernier-the-flaming-debutante
Rebecca's article about pockets for Cos: https://www.cosstores.com/gb/Studio/Projects/On_Pockets
The Art of Manliness' take on man's pockets (2017): https://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/05/20/a-mans-pockets/
Danica Ollerova for Pause on men wearing handbags (2017):
http://pausemag.co.uk/2017/04/will-men-start-rocking-womens-bags-this-season/
Jake Woolf for GQ on whether man purses are a thing (2016):
https://www.gq.com/story/mens-shoulder-bag-man-purse-bag
Some 19th century skirts with pockets at the Museum of London:
https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/82094.html
https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/81437.html
https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/81519.html

Apr 1, 2018 • 34min
Barber Shops & Flower Makers
We discuss gender binaries and barbershops, plus the art of flower making.
Lauren Sherman, 'For Women, Hairstyles at the Barbershop', New York Times (11/12/2013): https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/fashion/For-Women-Hairstyles-at-the-Barbershop.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' (1922): https://web.archive.org/web/20050830054426/http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/bernice/
Bassano Studio: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/group/18241.html
Flower Makers Museum: https://www.visit1066country.com/things-to-do/attractions/flower-makers-museum-p411891
The Lost Art of Flower Making (Museum of London blog post 2016): https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/lost-art-flower-making
Thomas Bloor, Last of the Flower Makers (1997): https://archive.org/details/lotfm

Mar 25, 2018 • 30min
Darns & Superheroes
We discuss how Beatrice learnt to darn, and consider Jessica Jones and what superheroes should wear.
Ray-Stitch: https://raystitch.co.uk/
Celia Pym: http://celiapym.com/
Annemor Sundbø: https://annemor.com/english/
Vladimir Arkhipov's Home-Made (2006): http://fuel-design.com/publishing/home-made/
Thérèse de Dillmont, Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20776/20776-h/chapter_2.html#linen_darning
Jessica Jones (2015-): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2357547/
Luke Cage (2016-): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322314/
Wonder Woman (2017): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/

Mar 18, 2018 • 35min
Mermaids & Jazz
We discuss why we think Edwardian women look like mermaids and the influence of jazz on interwar British art and design.
Lucile gown (1911): https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/81608.html
Camille Clifford: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw178842/Camille-Clifford-Camilla-Antoinette-Clifford
Paule Morly: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paule_Morly#/media/File:MORLY,_Paule_%C3%89toile._764-69._Photo_Stebbing.jpg
Annette Kellerman: https://maas.museum/event/million-dollar-mermaid-annette-kellerman/
Edmond (Edmund)Dulac: http://expositions.bnf.fr/contes/grand/091_2.htm
Rhythm & Reaction at Two Temple Place: https://twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/rhythm-and-reaction/
Autograph ABP: http://autograph-abp.co.uk/
Mark Matera, Black London (2015): https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520284302

Mar 11, 2018 • 30min
Grace Jones & Imperfect Garments
We discuss how amazing Grace Jones is and imperfect clothes in museums.
Sophie Fiennes (director), Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami (2017): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6903636/
Francis Ford Coppola (director), Bram Stoker's Dracula(1992): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/
Grace Jones with Paul Morley, 'I Never Write My Memoirs' (2016): http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ill-Never-Write-My-Memoirs/Grace-Jones/9781476765082
Present Imperfect: Disorderly Apparel Reconfigured exhibition (2017): http://www.fashionspacegallery.com/exhibition/present-imperfect/