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How do you come to know someone if all you have is the evidence of their clothes? This is the mystery author Jessamyn Hatcher is trying to solve after the discovery of 21 rare couture gowns in a forgotten storeroom of the heiress Hortense Mitchell Acton. The dresses were made by the innovative and radical Callot Soeurs, one of the Belle Epoque’s most celebrated couture houses. The collection reveals not only a forgotten piece of fashion history, but the story of one woman’s life. Jessamyn detailed the discovery in the March 23 issue of the New Yorker, and in this episode she dives deeper into the tale, revealing along the way how the clothes we wear can tell our story long after we’re gone. 

How do you come to know someone if all you have is the evidence of their clothes? This is the mystery author Jessamyn Hatcher is trying to solve after the discovery of 21 rare couture gowns in a forgotten storeroom of the heiress Hortense Mitchell Acton. The dresses were made by the innovative and radical Callot Soeurs, one of the Belle Epoque’s most celebrated couture houses. The collection reveals not only a forgotten piece of fashion history, but the story of one woman’s life. Jessamyn <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/twenty-one-dresses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">detailed the discovery</a> in the March 23 issue of the New Yorker, and in this episode she dives deeper into the tale, revealing along the way how the clothes we wear can tell our story long after we’re gone.

#35 Imprint of a Life, an interview with Jessamyn Hatcher

This talk investigates the use of fast fashion -- cheap chic pedaled by behemoths such as Zara and H&amp;M -- by a group of undocumented immigrant women who wear the clothes to labor in New York City's nail salons. In the wake of Rana Plaza, how can we move forward with a critique of fast fashion that accounts for the diversity of users and uses? Jessamyn Hatcher teaches fashion studies and the humanities in the Global Liberal Studies program at New York University.  She is working on a book about the politics of fast fashion.  She is the co-editor, with Cathy N. Davidson, of No More Separate Spheres!:  A Next Wave American Studies Reader (Duke University Press).Learn more at http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/phdlab/!

This talk investigates the use of fast fashion -- cheap chic pedaled by behemoths such as Zara and H&amp;M -- by a group of undocumented immigrant women who wear the clothes to labor in New York City's nail salons. In the wake of Rana Plaza, how can we move forward with a critique of fast fashion that accounts for the diversity of users and uses? Jessamyn Hatcher teaches fashion studies and the humanities in the Global Liberal Studies program at New York University. She is working on a book about the politics of fast fashion. She is the co-editor, with Cathy N. Davidson, of No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader (Duke University Press). Learn more at <a href="http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/phdlab/!" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/phdlab/!</a>

Little Freedoms: Immigrant Labor & the Politics of Fast Fashion with Jessamyn Hatcher