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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 focus on urban planning, art, and design. The first season covered topics from artist Hilma af Klint to the significance of roller rinks within the US Civil Rights movement. We're taking you through episode by episode bc if we're being honest a lot of you haven't switched over and we think you'll really like it over there! Check out Avant Gossip on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts! We're socialists! Follow us on our socials: @avantgossip on tiktok and instagram

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 involved.) Oh and we finally spent enough money that our sound quality is good. Please join us over on Avant Gossip!!! Apple Podcast is slow af but you can def find it on Spotify and more to come soon!! Click here to listen on Spotify

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. Stay tuned! xoxo- Hope and Jackie

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 sure to follow us and tune in for Season 2 coming in September. @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 modern art" Resource: Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to the US by Hugh Eakin

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 Scotland where a bunch of hunks are weaving fabric and chanting affirmations? Delta pls sponsor us! We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 stuff that they know about Vivienne Westwood. xoxo Main Sources: Vivienne Westwood - Ian Kelly and Vivienne Westwood An Unfashionable Life - Jane Mulvagh We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 with other designers we are drawn to asking questions about her ideologies - how did they develop, and to some degree, how genuinely are they reflected in her work? If you think you have deja vu, you don't. We did do a Vivienne Westwood series last year but we are back with a bigger, better (more researched) series that explores her design ideologies and design craft. This episode focuses on her working class roots, her influence on the punk scene, and how her views were impacted by Malcolm McClaren and The Situationists. Main Sources: Vivienne Westwood - Ian Kelly and Vivienne Westwood An Unfashionable Life - Jane Mulvagh We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 find out all of fashion's dirty lil secrets. xxxx We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 immigrant tailors, before country music turned its back on camp. The story of country music and its dress is one of working class branding, evolving masculine identities, and yes, Orville Peck (though we ALMOST forgot to bring him up.) Go on, get to listenin'! Source: Music: We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 frenemy relationship to Dayglo could be. So we dove into the world of Dayglo and asked the important questions, like wtf is Dayglo anyway? Well we get into it and it isn't what you think it is. Tune in to find out! Some resources for this episode: Punk Legend Poly Styrene’s Untold Fashion Influence by Scarlett Newman Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche Documentary Poly Styrene wikipedia https://rbkclibraries.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/fade-to-grey-fashion-and-music-from-the-1980s/ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82792/brief-history-day-glo https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-03/la-me-col1-day-glo-art-fading-lacma-saturn-yellow We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 austere. Sources: Chromophobia by David Batchelor Science Museum Group Digital Lab study We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 for those who got this episode with the not so good sound quality from before. Would it be a fashism epsiode tho with out some technical difficulties?! Sources: The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose Lee Miller in Fashion by Becky Conekin We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 did she sneak breast tissue out of a surgery and why did she take a picture of it on plate? These are all topics up for discussion. Sources: The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose Lee Miller in Fashion by Becky Conekin We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 WGSN 2023 consumer white page reports, the free ones essentially. We also took from The Daily podcast, and discussed their episode on unions. Lesbian Knitting: From Self-Sufficiency to Self-Representation by Eleanor Medhurst I can't cite every tangent, but you get the idea. We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 melds their thoughts on The Stranger piece by Charles Mudede, the history of antifashion as told by documentarian Olivier Nicklaus, as well as a collection of tangents that for whatever reason you keep coming back for. References: Seattle is the Antifashion Capital of the World by Charles Mudede It's Time to Admit that Seattle is a Style Capital by Andrew Matson Antifashion documentary We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 fashismpod@gmail.com

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 fashismpod@gmail.com

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 even Plato! Please hold their hands as they wade through this delightfully jam-packed text. We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

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 the biggest issue of the year. Instead of watching for funzies, they watch through the lens of Michel Foucault's theory of Panopticism, thinking about the power that Vogue has over our ideas of norms. Enjoy! We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com