Dressed: The History of Fashion
Arts:Fashion & Beauty
When fashion designer Salvacion Lim "Slim" Higgins opened her first atelier in Manila in 1947, she ushered in both the golden age of Filipino couture and her own forty-plus year career. Her son Mark Lewis Higgins joins us to discuss her incredible life and legacy.
Recommended additional resources:
Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?
Fashion History Now #46: 21st Century Kilts, an interview with Howie Nicholsby
Alber Elbaz: The Dream Factory, an interview with Ya'ara Keydar
Highland Style: Fashioning Highland Dress, an interview with Rosie Waine, part 2
Highland Style: Fashioning Highland Dress, an interview with Rosie Waine, part 1
Vogue Philippines: Fashion's New Frontier, Part II
Vogue Philippines: Fashion's New Frontier, Part I
Making Lace: Then and Now, an interview with Elena Kanagy-Loux, pt 2
Making Lace: Then and Now, an interview with Elena Kanagy-Loux, pt 1
Batman Returns to Hocus Pocus with Costume Designer Mary Vogt
Tim Gunn's Fashion History
Fashion History Now #45: Fashioning Carbon Emissions, an interview with Nils Altrogge
Generation Paper: Fast Fashion of the 1960s, an interview with Helen Jean
The Gilded Age "Dudes" of Fashion, Part II
The Gilded Age "Dudes" of Fashion, Part I
Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen, part 2, an interview with Michele Majer and Emma Cormack
Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen, part 1, an interview with Michele Majer and Emma Cormack
Invisible Seams with Filmmakers Jia Li and Jodie Chan
Fashion, Race, and Expanding the Narrative of Fashion History with Kimberly Jenkins
The Lady Di Look: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes, part 2, an interview with Eloise Moran
The Lady Di Look: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes, part 1, an interview with Eloise Moran
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Stuff You Should Know
Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Black Beauty
A Tale of Two Cities
Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Stuff To Blow Your Mind