Fashion Nerds

<p>What if the modern luxury wardrobe wasn’t invented by traditional fashion designers, but by lawyers, civil engineers, Olympic athletes, blacksmiths, and schoolteachers?<br /></p><p>In this episode of Fashion Nerds, Yana and Shauna explore how outsiders used their unconventional backgrounds to challenge fashion’s traditions and engineer the modern wardrobe.<br /></p><p>Drawing on research into 71 luxury houses founded since 1950, they trace how outsiders transformed fashion by solving the practical and cultural problems of their time: from Max Mara’s ready-to-wear camel coat and Chloé’s fluid silks to Moncler’s alpine down jackets, Missoni’s engineered kn...