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 Cassidy Zachary is a fashion historian, published author and professional podcaster. Her work can be found in Vogue, The New York Times, and WWD among many publications. She is the founder of the popular blog turned Instagram account @The_Art_of_Dress where every week she shares her passion for fashion history with over 300,000 followers around the globe. In addition to co-authoring the book Fashion and the Art of Pochoir, she has contributed to numerous publications on fashion history and has lectured on the topic throughout the United States. She is currently pursuing her PhD in History at the University of New Mexico where she is studying the relationship between fashion, race, and identity in the American Southwest.

April Calahan is an art and fashion historian, writer and professional podcaster living and working in New York City.  For more than a decade she served as a Special Collections curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she also taught in the History of Art department. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, WWD, The New York Times and The Guardian. She has lectured at cultural institutions around the world including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Parsons School of Design.

In addition to authoring/co-authoring three books on the history of fashion, she is also the co-Executive Producer/Host of Dressed:  The History of Fashion podcast, with her longtime collaborator Cassidy Zachary.