Episode 29 – Jasmine Helm from Unravel Podcast

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The 29th episode was recorded remotely with Jasmine Chavez Helm, who is a fellow fashion scholar, researcher, and podcaster, and in 2015 she co-founded Unravel: A Fashion Podcast, which focuses on fashion history. Jasmine grew up in La Puente, CA and in New York City. She earned her BA in Art History from Cal State Fullerton, and her MA in the Fashion and Textile Studies, in the History, Theory, and Museum Practice program at FIT. Jasmine has worked as a curator and archivist in Los Angeles and New York. She is passionate about exploring the cross-cultural intersections between history, art, fashion, media, and people. Her current research and Instagram archive @recuerdosdenicaragua focus on the dress and textile culture of the Indigenous people and Afro-Nicaraguans in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and Honduras.