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It is now an institution, not only in the fashion industry, but in the cultural scene: the first Monday in May takes places the MET Gala. And it is time for My Fashion Stories Box Podcast to put its 50 cents in the analysis and interpretation of this unavoidable event.

In this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast :

• We will go back to the origins of the MET Gala, its first purposes, its relationships with the Costume Institute and the way it is organised.
• We will see how 3 women left their marks on this event: Eleanor Lambert, Diana Vreeland and Anna Wintour.
• We will look at the social and cultural impacts of the MET Gala, the historical inspirations, the celebrity system behind it and the fashion statements.
• We will see how this event of the fashion industry became controversial and why.

Follow me in this new episode of My Fashion Stories Box Podcast to learn more on the behind the scenes of one of the most iconic events in the fashion world.

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C'est désormais une institution, non seulement dans l'industrie de la mode, mais aussi sur la scène culturelle : le premier lundi de mai a lieu le MET Gala. Et il est temps pour My Fashion Stories Box Podcast de mettre sa pierre à l’édifice dans l’analyse et l’interprétation de cet événement incontournable!

Dans ce nouvel épisode du Podcast My Fashion Stories Box :

• Nous reviendrons sur les origines du MET Gala, ses objectifs premiers, ses relations avec le Costume Institute et la manière dont il est organisé.
• Nous verrons comment 3 femmes ont marqué cet événement : Eleanor Lambert, Diana Vreeland et Anna Wintour.
• Nous examinerons les impacts sociaux et culturels du MET Gala, les inspirations historiques, le système de célébrités qui le sous-tend et les fashion statements.
• Nous verrons en quoi cet événement de l’industrie de la mode est devenu controversé et pour quelles raisons.

Suivez-moi dans ce nouvel épisode de My Fashion Stories Box Podcast pour en savoir plus sur les coulisses de l'un des événements les plus emblématiques du monde de la mode.

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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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