In this episode Martin Kamer tells where he finds and acquires his collection objects. He remembers a red silk and gold embroidered court dress (sack dress) that he bought in Florence. Kamer travels via London to New York, the dress in the bag. He calls his friend, the famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who, among many other things, collected historical dresses.Kamer sells the Italian dress to Nureyev before the dress makes a remarkable journey. Today, the dress is in the Fashion Museum in...

Martin Kamer is primarily interested in the dress and less in the person who wore it. However, he has made an exception for a famous person. Martin talks about the court dress of Empress Josephine, Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife. The dress is now at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, where it will be restored over the next few years.

Martin Kamer talks about the beginnings of his collecting activities in the late seventies. He tells where he finds the historical clothes for his collection and he speaks in general about auction houses.

In this episode, Martin Kamer recalls his childhood and youth in Zug (Switzerland) and his training period in London. Even as a young boy he was interested in fashion and, in particular, in historical dresses. At the end of the 1960s, Martin Kamer began working together with the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a superstar of that time.

This is the trailer of the podcast «OUT OF FASHION?» in which the protagonist Martin Kamer talks about a court dress that was once owned by Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. The podcast «OUT OF FASHION?» deals with historical clothes and accessories in connection with the collecting activities of Martin Kamer from Switzerland. From the wealth of knowledge about historical dresses Martin Kamer will present instructive and many amusing anecdotes. In the early 1980s, Martin Kamer...