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Chelsea Pub Crawl – Bohemians to Billionaires. Groovy!

Send us a text An unforgettable journey through Chelsea – from Bohemians to Billionaires!  Discover how this exclusive London neighborhood transformed from a riverside "Village of Palaces" into the ultimate bohemian quarter, then morphed into one of the world's poshest postcodes.  We're pub crawlin…

The Inventor of the Mini Skirt: Mary Quant

This week, Sadie tells us all about the inventor of the mini-skirt (and so much more!) popularized in the 1960s during the first "cool Britannica" era, also known as the 'swinging 60's' or the 'British invasion.' Quant's designs were accessible and liberating and reflected the changing attitudes to…

Kingston Glamour: Art, Innovation and the Suburbs

Step into the suburbs and discover a side of fashion history you might not expect. In this episode we explore Kingston Glamour: Art, Innovation and the Suburbs, the exhibition that explores how Kingston became a hub of style, nightlife, and cultural innovation. I'm joined by the curator from Kingst…

#21 Nancy Sinatra interview

Nancy Sinatra was a huge Beatles fan. She came to London with Lee Hazlewood and met them in the 60s, picking up Swinging Sixties fashion at the same time from Mary Quant, Twiggy, and Jean Shrimpton. In this exclusive interview with podcast host, Des Burkinshaw, done in LA in 2012, Nancy talks abou…

Mary Quant: The Woman Who Dressed the Sixties

Mary Quant taught herself to cut patterns at night so she could stock a King's Road boutique that opened with almost no money in 1955, and built an empire that put her name on everything from mini-dresses to a daisy-soled boot. This episode covers Bazaar, the Chelsea Set, the genuinely contested hi…

The New Look

Mary Quant, the fashion designer whose creations defined the 1960s “mod” era said she spent her thirteenth birthday crying because in her words, “old age had struck.” All she had to look forward to now were below the knee-length dresses, high heeled shoes, corsets, nylons and garter belts, stiff be…

#104 - Dame Meera Syal

Twiggy is back, and she has brought a Dame with her. After more than a year away, Twiggy explains where she went: Sadie Frost's documentary about her life took her round Britain and Europe from film festival to film festival for most of last year. The nice twist is that the film only exists becaus…

An Authentic Influencer Before The Internet The Legendary Twiggy

Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired the North Americandistribution rights to the feature length documentary film TWIGGY. Directed by British actress and filmmaker Sadie Frost (Bram Stokers's Dracula, Quant (Dir.)) the film takes an intimate, star-studded look at the life andlegacy of the 1960's su…

An Authentic Influencer Before The Internet The Legendary Twiggy

Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired the North Americandistribution rights to the feature length documentary film TWIGGY. Directed by British actress and filmmaker Sadie Frost (Bram Stokers's Dracula, Quant (Dir.)) the film takes an intimate, star-studded look at the life andlegacy of the 1960's su…

Assassin Sisters & the Miniskirt Revolution

This week's Short 'n' Sweets: two badass women history forgot. First, Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, teenage sisters who joined the Dutch resistance in Haarlem with their best friend Hannie Schaft. They lured Nazis into the woods and assassinated them, blew up railways, and waited nearly 70 years f…