Episodes
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Koolhaus' and his Kool Library: the Heterotopia of it All
Seattle Central Public Library welcomes you into what feels like a physical manifestation of a building in your dreams. The contradictions and programing create a space that is so unique that it's indescribable, Hope and Jackie try anyways. Come with us to find the strange world of heterotopia,...
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What We've Been Up To
Hope and Jackie are here with some updates and they def recorded this after a night of country dancing so you've been warned. After providing some personal updates, they reminisce about the first season of Avant Gossip, which is basically the same podcast but with better sound quality and a wider...
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Introducing: Avant Gossip!!!!!
Hope and Jackie have a new podcast called Avant Gossip. It's basically the same thing, but we wanted a fresh start and a name that encompasses what we do: read about art, fashion, design, and culture and talk about it (ie discuss meaning, dish hot takes, and look up the sun sign of everyone...
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We Back!
Hope and Jackie are back and recording, but this is just a taste. We are in transition faze and so very exhausted. We have been working hard for season two, while also somehow not doing much at all. So give us a break, ok! :) We will be rebranding as Avant Gossip and giving more details soon.…
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The MOMA Genesis
What did it take to bring modern art to the US? A guy named Alfred Barr Jr., some rich broads, and Picasso finally realizing he hated war. Thus, the Museum of Modern Art was born. Also, we are switching to a seasonal schedule to check out our socials for our Summer Reading List (soon!) and make...
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Invasion of Modern Art: The John Quinn Story
Jackie and Hope gossip about modern art coming to the US. First off, some hot piece of turn of the century New York lawyer fuck boi ass got really into modern art. Second off, he almost pulled it off. This is our retelling of how he tried to make Modern art cool in the US. "We had cars, but no...
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Vivienne Westwood: Pirates, Harris Tweed, and Portrait
Vivienne Westwood's runway collections in the 80s and 90s erupted from her research into and obsession with British and French aristocracy. Her belief that culture has waned since the revolutionary era leaps off the runway once you're looking for it. Also did you know there's an island in…
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Vivienne Westwood: Anglomania and Saving the World
Buckle up cause this is a jam packed trip. Jackie and Hope cover tid bits of her blossoming into the fashion designer that shaped her career and legacy. From the break up with Malcolm to her environmentalist protesting days, we got it covered. Listen in to your friends chatting about all the…
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Vivienne Westwood and the Roots of Punk
Vivienne Westwood is a fashion designer who was known for drawing from historical influences and sending messages with her designs. She got her start within the punk scene, brought parody of British royalty into her runways designs, and later became focused on climate issues. And so more so than...
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Slut Fashion
Hope and Jackie get into bed with fashion history. This episode got it's interesting points on how sex work has impacted the fashion world over time. *Spoiler alert* Sex workers were typically the ones with the cutting edge trends, now and in Ancient Roman times. You will have to just listen to...
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Rhinestone Nudie Suits and the Queering of Country Music
They're sparkly, they're colorful, they bear images of palm trees and wagon wheels - so why were they worn by dudes who claim to be more interested in race cars than music? Hope and Jackie dissect the meaning of Nudie Suits, sewn for country music stars in the 1940s by Southern California…
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Poly Styrene and Dayglow: Energy turned to Screaming Color
Hope and Jackie are back at it again, returning with some ear hole goodness. This time we discuss fashion icon, punk musician, and writer Poly Styrene. She wore a highlighter color scheme that interlaced with her sound, poetry, and art. Her fashion shouted out to the world how scrupulous her...
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Chromophobia and the Truth about Plato
Hope and Jackie are back with a full spectrum take on David Batchelor's book Chromophobia and the conversation around the disappearance of color from our world. It's a topic that touches everything from minimalism to Bauhaus, Beige Moms to the Kardashians, Aristotle to... Jesus? Be there or be...
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Lee Miller: WWII, Farming, and Norwegian Cooking (Pt 2)
First off, her son who wrote her biography, knows way too much about her sex life. Or are we being to judgey? Second off, Lee Miller is known not only to be war correspondent for Vogue during WWII, she also was the world renown chef for some of the worst food. She really can do it all. Apologize...
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Surrealist Muse, Vogue Photographer, and Tortured Taurus: Lee Miller (Pt 1)
Hope and Jackie have fallen for Lee Miller (1907-1977), an iconic 1920s Vogue model, surrealist photographer, and champion of the sad girl aesthetic. Did she meet Conde Nast on the street after almost running into traffic? Was her relationship with her dad creepy by any decade's standards? How…
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Marxist Fashion Predictions 2023 *updated*
Jackie got off her meds for a few weeks, and while high on a slight tinge of manic, got to writing on this episode. It's a jam packed episode - we go over last year trends, including indie sleaze and cottage core and then take a peak forward to see what to expect for the year of 2023. We used…
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Seattle and the Antifashion of it All
It started with some click bait from The Stranger, touting Seattle as the antifashion capital of the world. Hope and Jackie, famously unenthused by Seattle's relentless dependence on outdoor wear, nevertheless had to set the record straight about what exactly antifashion is. The resulting episode...
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Edward Enninful Part 2: Rising through the Ranks of the 90s Fashion World
Hope and Jackie continue to recap A Visible Man by Edward Enninful, featuring anecdotes about Kate Moss and very sad attempts at Italian accents. We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at [email protected]
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Edward Enninful Part 1: The Younger Years, From Ghana to London to i-D
We are starting our Edward Enninful deep dive! We read A Visible Man by Edward Enninful, hot off the press. Then we discuss are parties still happening? Jackie says no, Hope disagrees. Listen in!! We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at...
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Harajuku, According to Some French Philoshophers
Jackie and Hope are dissecting Power Play and Performance in Harajuku, an article by writer, art historian, and baby bangs icon Amelia Groom. It's basically a who's who of fashion theory and philosophy so get ready to chew on some ideas from Roland Bartes, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, and...
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The Panopticon and the September Issue
They're back, with more vocal fry than ever! If you thought the title was something clever, it's not, it's exactly what the episode is about! Hope and Jackie watch the 2009 documentary The September Issue, which features Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, and the whole Vogue #family as they work on...
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Anna Wintour Part III
In our third installation on the colonial broad herself, Anna Wintour, we discuss the more recent pop culture aspect of her life. Listen in for some piping, hot tea on New York socialites. We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at...
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Anna Wintour Part II
In this installment of our recap of Amy Odell's biography of Anna Wintour, we talk about her chess-like moves to become editor in chief of Vogue and all the poor pawns she steps on on the way to the top. We talk affairs, lawsuits, PETA, Harvey Weinstein, even 9/11. It's juicy, it's ripe, just…
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Anna Wintour Part I
Who da fuq is Anna Wintour? Well, for those that live under a rock, she basically runs Vogue magazine and one of the last powerful media heads to exist. We dive into Anna Wintour, the Biography by Amy Odell We highly suggest the read, it really gives you a deep look behind those iconic…
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André Leon Talley Brings the Hot Goss
The death of an icon inspires Hope and Jackie to read André Leon Talley's memoir Chiffon Trenches. From dancing at Studio 54 with Diana Ross to eating breakfast in bed at his buddy Karl Lagerfeld's house to coming clean about Anna Wintour's one redeeming quality, Talley tells a story of paving…
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Are You Surreal?
Their self-proclaimed Best Sounding Episode Yet, this week Hope and Jackie are bringing you hard hitting journalism as they talk to a worker from a Crossroads Trading location that is in the process of unionizing (and getting busted.) Next, Hope talks about the connection between fashion and...
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To Twee or Not to Twee
You guessed it, we're hopping in on the convo about twee, but we're taking you back to the 1990s with the record label that started it all! Skip the first 20 minutes if you want to get right to it (but you'll miss Jackie's psychic love prediction and Hope's strange reason for wanting to get...
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