States of Undress
Since 2016, viewers have followed Hailey Gates as she travels the world in search of deeply personal, not-always-glamorous stories about the way people get dressed on States of Undress. Over the course of the Viceland show's first season, she attended Karachi Fashion Week in Pakistan, toured a mannequin factory in Venezuela, and sourced material for a dress in some unexpected places in China.
The model (for Miu Miu), actress (on Twin Peaks), and journalist (first as an editor at Paris Review, now on her own series) continues to broaden the scope of what we mean when we talk about fashion, the intersectional components of which feel more pressing in light of recent political events both in the U.S. and abroad. (In one episode, Gates follows the day-to-day of Muslim women who dress modestly in France, which ends in a beach trip where she and her burkini-wearing friends are gawked at—and confronted by—fellow loungers over their swim gear; in another, the host ventures to Independence, Ohio, to check out the town's Concealed Carry Fashion Show.)
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