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My Fashion Stories Box Podcast

By: Catherine Trotin
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  • A podcast about stories in fashion history powered by Catherine Trotin, a bookovore, history nerd and fashion passionate. Music credits: Patara (feat. İlhan Erşahin) by Cagan Tunali, Noiseist Records.
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Episodes
  • EPISODE #36: Fashion Stories and the regulation of fashion throughout the ages (English version)
    Apr 22 2024

    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 past to see if this process of consumption control was specific to our modern society or if, on the contrary, there have already been examples of laws, edicts supervising the access as well as the consumption of goods linked with looks and appearance.

    In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast :

    • We will travel back in time to the first antique civilisations in the look for the first occurrences of sumptuary laws ;
    • We will take a look at the practices in Europe during the Middle Ages on that matter and their impacts on the social hierarchy of these times ;
    • We will then go on our time travel to the Renaissance, the 17th century and the 18th century ;
    • We will go in Imperial China to see if Sumptuary laws were more universal and not just a European particularity;
    • We will study to which extend the Industrial Revolution and the 19th century society changed the rules;
    • We will come closer to our modern times and analyze how the two world conflits of the 20th century regulated clothing access for economic purposes;
    • And, to conclude this episode, we will debate on the actual effectiveness of these kind of laws and other consumption restrictions.

    Follow me in this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast to learn more on how appearance, fashion and luxury have been perceived and their access regulated over the centuries.

    Links to the sources mentioned in this episode:

    • Documentary The True Cost
    • Documentary Inside the Shein Machine
    • BBC documentary Guilty Pleasures

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    36 mins
  • EPISODE #35: Les histoires de mode et la régulation de l’accès à la mode au fils des siècles (version française)
    Apr 22 2024

    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 regarder dans le passé pour voir si ce processus de contrôle de la consommation était particulier aux défis de notre société moderne ou si, au contraire, il y a déjà eu des cas de lois, d’édits encadrant l’accès et la consommation de biens liés à l’apparence.

    Dans ce nouvel épisode de My Fashion Stories Box Podcast :

    • Nous remontrons le temps jusqu’aux premières civilisations antiques, Mésopotamie, Egypte antique, Grèce antique et Rome à la recherche de premiers cas de lois somptuaires ;
    • Nous regarderons les pratiques mises en place au Moyen Age en Europe et leurs impacts de la hiérarchie sociétale de l’époque ;
    • Nous continuerons notre voyage dans le temps avec la période de la Renaissance, du 17ème siècle et du 18ème siècle ;
    • Nous irons du côté de la Chine impériale ;
    • Nous étudierons comment la Révolution industrielle et la société du 19ème siècle ont changé les règles du jeu ;
    • Nous verrons de quelle manière les deux conflits mondiaux ont mis en place des régulations vestimentaires dans un but économique ;
    • Et, pour conclure, nous nous interrogerons sur l’efficacité réelle de ces lois et autres restrictions.

    Suivez-moi dans ce nouvel épisode de My Fashion Stories Box Podcast pour en apprendre plus sur la manière dont l’apparence, la mode et le luxe ont été perçus et leur accès réglementés au fil des siècles.

    Liens vers les sources mentionnées dans cet épisode:

    • Documentaire The True Cost
    • Documentaire Inside the Shein Machine
    • Documentaire de la BBC Guilty Pleasures

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    35 mins
  • EPISODE #34: Fashion Stories and Jeanne Toussaint, a life under the Sign of the Panther (English version)
    Mar 26 2024

    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 contributions ?

    These are some of the main questions we will cover together on the woman who counted as her friends the unmissable Coco Chanel and who lived a passionated love story with Louis Cartier.

    Follow me in this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast to learn more on the enigmatic though unavoidable Jeanne Toussaint.

    Links to the 2 books mentioned in this episode:

    • The Cartiers, The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell
    • La Panthère by Stéphanie des Horts, only in French

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    28 mins

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