The Austen Connection

Hello, listeners!

Designer Jennyvi Dizon is a fashion designer whose latest collection - debuting this weekend at NYFW - is inspired by the characters of Jane Austen.

Dizon has been sewing since she was a child - she says it’s how she speaks to the world. Every design she creates, she says, contains a narrative. A story.

In this conversation and podcast episode with the Austen Connection, Dizon breaks down for us how her designs incorporate not only Austen’s complicated characters, from Lizzy Bennet and Anne Elliot, to Mrs. Elton, and Emma - but also their stories.

Dizon by telling us how she began incorporating Jane Austen characters into her fashion designs - and how for her even becoming a fashion designer in the first place meant standing up and using her voice, rather like Elizabeth Bennet to Lady Catherine de Bourgh - and actually, that’s also a gown: The Lizzy Gown, something that might be worn for a time that you need to stand up to someone.

Here’s our conversation with Designer Jennyvi Dizon, about how fashion tells a story - and how loss, for heroines like Anne Elliot and Emma, and also for Dizon herself, can be part of that story.

Thanks for listening to the Austen Connection podcast. You can see more on Jennyvi Dizon here: https://jennyvinewyork.com/

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