99% Invisible podcast launches new 'Articles of Interest' series

By

Isabelle Crossley

Published
Oct 2, 2018

The 99% Invisible podcast has launched a new six-part spin-off series called Articles of Interest that sees its host Avery Trufelman explore what we wear and why.

99% Invisible, a podcast from the Radiotopia network with close to 300 million downloads, has launched Articles of Interest. The series debuted on September 25 and will air on Tuesdays and Fridays until October 12. The podcast focuses on the intersection of clothes, society, and design and features Trufelman’s research mixed with varied interviews.

The series kicked off with an episode entitled 'Children’s Clothing' that examines why children’s wear looks how it does today. This was followed by 'Plaid', where Trufelman traces the parochial pattern back to its Scottish roots and explores its later connotations. 'Pockets' explores gender constructs in clothing and upcoming episodes include 'Hawaiian Shirts', 'Denim', and 'Punk'.

The last episode of the series will look back at the history of punk’s inception and feature an interview with Don Letts, creator of the documentary Punk Attitude.

Through chronicling punk’s rise from the disenfranchised youth of the 1970s, Trufelman states that, although the music may have first begun in America, but the subculture’s iconic look was created in England by Vivienne Westwood and Malcom Mclaren who were inspired by Situationists and sold the first “punk” look through their London shop Seditionaries.

“Doing the research to create this series has opened up my mind to think more critically about what we wear,” said Trufelman in a press release.

“It’s completely changed the way I consume, and the way I dress. My goal is to inspire listeners to think about clothes in a way they never thought about it before, and to be more daring and more sustainable in what they wear.”