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History Lessons for Misanthropes

Apr 20, 2021

In this episode we discuss the iconic 20th century couturier, credited with creating fashions for the modern woman, elegant and simple.  But this isn't about her rise to the top of her field, despite life circumstances.  This is about her role as a German agent in World War II.  She may have been an innovated designer,...


Apr 6, 2021

In this episode we explore the life of avant garde artist and writer Claude Cahun (nee Lucie Schwob).  As a part of the Paris art scene in the 1920s, she used art to question established gender roles, while hanging out with the likes of Dali, Miro, Lacan, and other big names of the Paris intelligentsia. Until 1940, when...