Your dress is DEFinitely worth it. Just beautiful. And really, it should cost MORE than the Prada dress, because it's custom bespoke. Not to mention all that lovely beading done by hand. Beautiful job. Just beautiful.
It’s supposed that designer clothes are way more expensive because “the fabrics are better quality” but I still think this dress of Prada’s which also doesn’t include beading shouldn’t be so expensive just because it’s a designer dress
It used to be that designer clothing was made in the french ateliers by the best seamstresses in the world. Hundreds of hours of expert hand stitching were put into each piece. Today, the fabric is all machine cut and sewn by some poor sweatshop slave worker in Indonesia.
i just got my grandmas sewing machine and i am so excited to get more into sewing! i’ve been sewing for awhile but i rarely make clothes. you’re such an inspiration!!!
Sewing is definitely a hobby worth pursuing if you like nice clothing. The time you invest in learning repays itself with quality and well fitting clothes. There’s a gazillions tutorial on UA-cam. My advice is to start with simple things and work your way up as you gain experience and confidence.
Thank you I really enjoyed your video. You are so talented. I think the beading is exquisite and adds many pounds to the dress. Wonderful thank you!!! 🎉❤
That dress is gorgeous!!! Watching your videos made me want to learn to sew, so now I understand a lot more of the how to as well. Thank you for sharing so much, and the designer dress isn't worth it, in my opinion.
Hi Kiana I really like your dress design so creative, and another thing i really appreciate your stitching Kiana, and can you make more sewing challenges pleaseee
Can you please make a carolina herrera shirt dress❤️ love this content so much. I didnt realize that the labor cost will really mark up the price. It means my sewing projects are really costly if I calculate it like that. I also love to do complicated projects requiring a lot of time and fabrics. But really thank you
Love it! Can you do it with an award show dress next? Like the Demi Moore Golden Globes dress? I sew myself, but wouldn't dare recreate that, because it feels impossible with that fit and design 😅😅
Hey Kiana! I'd LOVE, :LOVE to see you knock off the dress from Free People called Extratropical. My husband challenged me to only wear what I've actually made this year....for the whole year. I can't buy anything RTW. It's a cute summer dress....super popular as the cheaper dupe on Amazon.....but for us sewers....ya, we would LOVE a pattern!
This dress is dropdead gorgeous, and I wish I had your sewing skills and technique. A lot of education and practice right there. 😍 But about the price value, I'm not sure what does those 2,5 times cover. I didn't understood that very well, and I don't have access to your research, of course. But there's more to it than the eyes can see. Retailer value not only costs the branding, materials and workers salary. There are space costs, from electricity , water supply for the factory, space monthly rental/taxes, other employees salaries from the cafeteria lady to the CEO or the director, etc. Besides that, you have transportation costs, delivery, insurances, everything that's intermediate between the factory, the warehouse and the final retailer shop. There's a ridiculous amount of factors that influence the product price. Yes, probably would not still cost almost 4k 😅 a significant percentage of it is the Prada logo weight. But if you dig through the resources needed to get one of those dresses done, you'll find yourself with a very long list of expenses.
The tambour beading is gorgeous, but how do you clean a dress embellished this way? I wear lolita fashion, and most of our bling is detachable. You definitely ate. You ate like Thanksgiving.
Most people in the industry pf craftsmanship don't charge per hour they charge per job/project Because it's not the time your paying for it's the craftsmanship, there's a video about this concept.. Look into it!
Hi there! It’s not designer clothes, but I do have a question. I’m about to have to start looking for a wedding dress, and I’m stuck in executive dysfunction because of having so many things I know I don’t want from my dress because of having over heating issues and sensory issues. Mainly I just want to feel beautiful. I’m also not curvy so I have to find something to create a figure (corset most likely). Is that where I should start? I also definitely know I want it lavender, but more bluish than red. Any advice would totally help? I really loved your wedding dress series. 🥰 would you also recommend just hiring someone to create it from scratch instead of finding it off the rack? I do have costume experience and could help overall.
Corsets can be good, are you making them yourself? Or buying? I also recommend looking into butt/hip pads. It’s how Edwardian/Victorian (I forget which era sorry history teacher lol) got those impossible looking figures
Hi Kiana! I was literally just talking about luxury brand pricing with my bf last night. He was convinced all those brands must use really really nice fabrics, hence the price, and was so surprised when we looked at their websites and it was mostly polyester. I don't get it. I know there can be nice polyesters, but for thousands of dollars I do want natural silk or luxury wool or something, not anything synthetic... We tried to look up where Versace sources their fabrics from, but it just had a bunch of "green certifications" and like "we are ethical" but didn't say where they come from, other than China. So, if the fabric isn't extremely nice, I ask myself: maybe the exorbitant cost is due to some sort of masterful construction? I ask this with all due respect- I have been learning from you for years, I know you are the goat- but do you think your construction of the dress is as good as the prada one? Is the fit as good? Is the pattern as good? Like.. are they really just charging that much for the name? Thank you for all your work and videos. Everything you make looks so good, inside and out, you are a huge inspiration. V
I know that this comment was meant for Kiana but yes, Prada is only charging $3600 for a minimal due to the name "Prada". Versace does this, LV, Gucci, Chanel. They all just charge for the name.
Up to a certain price point covers the labor and construction of designer items. Then, the rest and majority of the markup is comes from the prestige and reputation of the brand. Keep in mind, most larger well-known designer items are mass-produced in a factory in a country where labor cost is significantly cheaper. Sometimes, they are even produced in the same factory as lower-end brands, especially for products like jewelry, sunglasses and makeup. What is interesting are the higher end fake designer replicas where the material and construction are the same. They still cost of a lot of money, but at a fraction of what the real items cost. They are so similar that many designer brands have trouble telling them apart and need to rely on their tracking system like serial numbers to confirm where the item came from
I would have interlinrd the dress with organza to create the same fullness. I sew to get the level of quality that I want and for my clothes feel like a second skin.
I believe they custom create their fabric so I don't know the exact cost. Though I would suspect it may add around $20 to the materials cost and therefore around $45 to the final price!
14:09 hi again!! So these are the mark-up normally used in fashion. Keep in mind, that mark-up points (or percentage) depends on the product and market, example luxury market ends to have higher mark-up than designer market. Sew!! Lol.. once you calculated the cost of the garment, you take this number and multiply by 2.5 for a wholesale mark-up. This mark-up is used for buyers when purchasing from designers, and it should be standard for buyers to order the minimum amount for a wholesale price. When the buyer (these are department stores, boutiques - heck, if you have an online store or brick and mortar, you are also "the buyer") sells the wholesale products in their stores (now they become the sellers), they are going to add an additional mark-up to the wholesale price in order to make a profit. This is called the retail mark-up and normally is 3.5x the wholesale price. It is recommended for designers to use this mark-up as well. Hope this helps (and makes sense 😅)! Cheers!
A lot of the couture houses have an internal/built-in corset in their dresses. A lot of the work in these expensive dresses are not very obvious so you'd really have to deconstruct the real one for a closer/fairer comparison. I'm not defending the brands pricing decisions at all. But I'm learning how to sew right now and the amount of people asking me to mend/sew their clothes for free or for pennies because they do not want to pay someone who is trained shows me how little people who do not sew appreciate the amount of work and skills that have to be acquired to make clothes.
I just had to take a look at how much it was for where I live. For the state it was $44k a year, but for the town I live in was $88k. So it really all depends in USA where you live.
The multiplier is so low. You should probably have done 3 up to 4. Because you forgot to include your operational costs and delivery charges or commute fare to your material cost. That fabric did not appear to your house magically. That should be taken into consideration.
Operational costs include your utility bills (electricity and rent cost). Prada have sales clerks on their payroll which also add to the cost of the garment. My theory is that the original price gives justice to the cost they’re charging. I came up with $2768 which is nearer to the original posted price on their site.
$3650!!!! Are they serious? That is such a basic design - for goodness sake, it’s what half of the fashion dolls of the world wear every day. Not even silk but tacky man-made nylon. I’d much rather pay the $1700 for your dress - for the beading alone and not having to be a walking billboard for Prada!
I would loveeee to see you do a series breaking down “luxury” items and if they’re priced “logically”
Yessss!
Your dress is DEFinitely worth it. Just beautiful. And really, it should cost MORE than the Prada dress, because it's custom bespoke. Not to mention all that lovely beading done by hand. Beautiful job. Just beautiful.
Beautiful dress, beading and sewing. This is why I sew most of my clothes...and knit. Better quality than I can afford.
It’s supposed that designer clothes are way more expensive because “the fabrics are better quality” but I still think this dress of Prada’s which also doesn’t include beading shouldn’t be so expensive just because it’s a designer dress
It used to be that designer clothing was made in the french ateliers by the best seamstresses in the world. Hundreds of hours of expert hand stitching were put into each piece. Today, the fabric is all machine cut and sewn by some poor sweatshop slave worker in Indonesia.
@@carolallison9685 some items are still made in the ateliers now, but they cost WAY more 3,000 dollars😅
i just got my grandmas sewing machine and i am so excited to get more into sewing! i’ve been sewing for awhile but i rarely make clothes. you’re such an inspiration!!!
Sewing is definitely a hobby worth pursuing if you like nice clothing. The time you invest in learning repays itself with quality and well fitting clothes. There’s a gazillions tutorial on UA-cam. My advice is to start with simple things and work your way up as you gain experience and confidence.
That's so great! Enjoy the journey!
Thank you I really enjoyed your video. You are so talented. I think the beading is exquisite and adds many pounds to the dress. Wonderful thank you!!! 🎉❤
Some days I want to go all into crochet or embroidery but you always make me want to dedicate more of my time to sewing 🧡
loveeee crochet too! But sewing def has my heart :))
This is the kind of sewing content im here for!!! 😍
Love these types of videos!!! Please keep making them💜
You got it!
I appreciate you keeping in the sewing machine trouble when you swapped the foot. It's always a process for me. 😅
also love the beading! it looks kinda like an eye to me, very cool!
It’s so much MORE than the Prada!!!
You’re very talented and fun to watch
I loved it Kiana! Congratulations you’re the best
This was so cool and the dress is way prettier than Prada!! Thank you! 😍
ah thanks for linking the A&F dress!
maybe you can use the other earring for a similar look on a complimentary accessory?
Under 5 min to acknowledge literal art by kiana🙌🏻
pls this should def be a series!!! loved it
That dress is gorgeous!!! Watching your videos made me want to learn to sew, so now I understand a lot more of the how to as well. Thank you for sharing so much, and the designer dress isn't worth it, in my opinion.
The second hearing would look cool as a hair accessory at the back of a half updo, like a clasp.
I love this dress!!! I think the shape is perfection.
thank you!!! :))
Hi Kiana I really like your dress design so creative, and another thing i really appreciate your stitching Kiana, and can you make more sewing challenges pleaseee
The spin test was GORGEOUS
Can you please make a carolina herrera shirt dress❤️ love this content so much. I didnt realize that the labor cost will really mark up the price. It means my sewing projects are really costly if I calculate it like that. I also love to do complicated projects requiring a lot of time and fabrics. But really thank you
Your dress looks way better and it’s tailored to fit you perfectly. 1000% better than Prada.
I love this!!😍 could you try to make a vivienne westwood corset next, I love them so much and I know you would make such a cool one with your style
You are fun to watch and talented! 👸🏻
Love it! Can you do it with an award show dress next? Like the Demi Moore Golden Globes dress? I sew myself, but wouldn't dare recreate that, because it feels impossible with that fit and design 😅😅
I loved the format of this video!
I don’t sew, but i watched almost all of your videos😮
Hey Kiana! I'd LOVE, :LOVE to see you knock off the dress from Free People called Extratropical. My husband challenged me to only wear what I've actually made this year....for the whole year. I can't buy anything RTW. It's a cute summer dress....super popular as the cheaper dupe on Amazon.....but for us sewers....ya, we would LOVE a pattern!
😍😍😍love this dress! It’s perfect on you and of course you ATE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
omg thank youuuu ❤
Love the beading! The dress came out lovely. Can you do a Chanel style suit?
Amazing! Thank you for the step-by-step!
I LOVE those sweet Prada loafers!!
This dress is dropdead gorgeous, and I wish I had your sewing skills and technique. A lot of education and practice right there. 😍 But about the price value, I'm not sure what does those 2,5 times cover. I didn't understood that very well, and I don't have access to your research, of course. But there's more to it than the eyes can see. Retailer value not only costs the branding, materials and workers salary. There are space costs, from electricity , water supply for the factory, space monthly rental/taxes, other employees salaries from the cafeteria lady to the CEO or the director, etc. Besides that, you have transportation costs, delivery, insurances, everything that's intermediate between the factory, the warehouse and the final retailer shop. There's a ridiculous amount of factors that influence the product price. Yes, probably would not still cost almost 4k 😅 a significant percentage of it is the Prada logo weight. But if you dig through the resources needed to get one of those dresses done, you'll find yourself with a very long list of expenses.
Just beautiful!!
I love the dress but also the general concept of the video 😍
This would be an awesome series!!
Your dress is stunning!
Prada has a monopoly on their name and can charge anything they want (what the market will bare). Pretty dress!
Very impressive! It’s very pretty on. Thank you very much, I love to sew and that was inspiring. New sub
YAY welcome!!!
Stunning. I want to make this too now.
The tambour beading is gorgeous, but how do you clean a dress embellished this way? I wear lolita fashion, and most of our bling is detachable. You definitely ate. You ate like Thanksgiving.
Beautiful dress
Love how you talk to your machine! I do too haha 😂
Beautiful!
"lets put a pin in this" *literally pins it to the wall* 😭 love the literal application of a euphemism
Most people in the industry pf craftsmanship don't charge per hour they charge per job/project
Because it's not the time your paying for it's the craftsmanship, there's a video about this concept.. Look into it!
The intro though!!!! ❤❤
You are such a talented and beautiful young lady, tou inspire me alot, can you take me under your wings please 🥺, i really hope to learn from you
Love the long vid!!!!!
Hi there! It’s not designer clothes, but I do have a question. I’m about to have to start looking for a wedding dress, and I’m stuck in executive dysfunction because of having so many things I know I don’t want from my dress because of having over heating issues and sensory issues. Mainly I just want to feel beautiful. I’m also not curvy so I have to find something to create a figure (corset most likely). Is that where I should start? I also definitely know I want it lavender, but more bluish than red. Any advice would totally help? I really loved your wedding dress series. 🥰 would you also recommend just hiring someone to create it from scratch instead of finding it off the rack? I do have costume experience and could help overall.
Corsets can be good, are you making them yourself? Or buying? I also recommend looking into butt/hip pads. It’s how Edwardian/Victorian (I forget which era sorry history teacher lol) got those impossible looking figures
This is why I love her 😍 my fav creator 💕
Would love to see a pattern for the Abercrombie dress ❤❤
wowza!!!
You make sewing look easy
loved this!
Love this!
Hey, was wondering where your turtleneck tutorial went, I’ve been looking for a week and now I can’t remember if it just didn’t exist
Hi Kiana!
I was literally just talking about luxury brand pricing with my bf last night. He was convinced all those brands must use really really nice fabrics, hence the price, and was so surprised when we looked at their websites and it was mostly polyester. I don't get it. I know there can be nice polyesters, but for thousands of dollars I do want natural silk or luxury wool or something, not anything synthetic... We tried to look up where Versace sources their fabrics from, but it just had a bunch of "green certifications" and like "we are ethical" but didn't say where they come from, other than China. So, if the fabric isn't extremely nice, I ask myself: maybe the exorbitant cost is due to some sort of masterful construction? I ask this with all due respect- I have been learning from you for years, I know you are the goat- but do you think your construction of the dress is as good as the prada one? Is the fit as good? Is the pattern as good? Like.. are they really just charging that much for the name?
Thank you for all your work and videos. Everything you make looks so good, inside and out, you are a huge inspiration.
V
I know that this comment was meant for Kiana but yes, Prada is only charging $3600 for a minimal due to the name "Prada". Versace does this, LV, Gucci, Chanel. They all just charge for the name.
Up to a certain price point covers the labor and construction of designer items. Then, the rest and majority of the markup is comes from the prestige and reputation of the brand. Keep in mind, most larger well-known designer items are mass-produced in a factory in a country where labor cost is significantly cheaper. Sometimes, they are even produced in the same factory as lower-end brands, especially for products like jewelry, sunglasses and makeup. What is interesting are the higher end fake designer replicas where the material and construction are the same. They still cost of a lot of money, but at a fraction of what the real items cost. They are so similar that many designer brands have trouble telling them apart and need to rely on their tracking system like serial numbers to confirm where the item came from
Could you please do the selkie christmas gown.
3:47 I just realized... Did you put a backing for the beading!?! 😧
Your beading was amazing! That logo on the expensive dress was very cheap looking.
Please make the infamous Z butterscotch engagement dress.
I would have interlinrd the dress with organza to create the same fullness.
I sew to get the level of quality that I want and for my clothes feel like a second skin.
What would the price be if you used the same material they have in the original dress?
I believe they custom create their fabric so I don't know the exact cost. Though I would suspect it may add around $20 to the materials cost and therefore around $45 to the final price!
Yours is prettier. Love the beading.
I guess you were just missing the pattern making research in the calculation. Anyway, gorgious dress, grea recreation, love it!❤
What was the cost if you used gabardine?
Amazing. I do think you lwft out the marketing cost but when i think about it, what is the marketing cost
Please please make a video on how to make glindas first dress in the movie 🥹🥹🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💗💗
A pattern please!! ❤❤❤
14:09 hi again!! So these are the mark-up normally used in fashion. Keep in mind, that mark-up points (or percentage) depends on the product and market, example luxury market ends to have higher mark-up than designer market.
Sew!! Lol.. once you calculated the cost of the garment, you take this number and multiply by 2.5 for a wholesale mark-up. This mark-up is used for buyers when purchasing from designers, and it should be standard for buyers to order the minimum amount for a wholesale price.
When the buyer (these are department stores, boutiques - heck, if you have an online store or brick and mortar, you are also "the buyer") sells the wholesale products in their stores (now they become the sellers), they are going to add an additional mark-up to the wholesale price in order to make a profit. This is called the retail mark-up and normally is 3.5x the wholesale price. It is recommended for designers to use this mark-up as well.
Hope this helps (and makes sense 😅)!
Cheers!
Please please please make Jacquemus «La Robe Saudade» dress 🙌🏻🤍
my nan just gave me the same dress its from Charlotte russe das crazy
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versace and dolce and gabbana
You didn't add the price of utility, packaging and marketing 14:26
I would pay an Independent Designer that much. Not someplace like Prada.
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Kacey Musgraves reformation collab :)
A lot of the couture houses have an internal/built-in corset in their dresses. A lot of the work in these expensive dresses are not very obvious so you'd really have to deconstruct the real one for a closer/fairer comparison. I'm not defending the brands pricing decisions at all. But I'm learning how to sew right now and the amount of people asking me to mend/sew their clothes for free or for pennies because they do not want to pay someone who is trained shows me how little people who do not sew appreciate the amount of work and skills that have to be acquired to make clothes.
Beautiful dress. Your dress looked more expensive.
$52 for the whole thing????? Where do you buy fabric? I couldn’t buy clearance quilting fabric to make a full dress for that little ☹️
Whaaaat the frick? In Sweden, you can live just fine on 20k dollars a year. 89k a year is for hella rich people. That's mad to me.
I just had to take a look at how much it was for where I live. For the state it was $44k a year, but for the town I live in was $88k. So it really all depends in USA where you live.
Its made of nylon and its $3k??? That the craziest part of this whole thing
Prada you
The multiplier is so low. You should probably have done 3 up to 4. Because you forgot to include your operational costs and delivery charges or commute fare to your material cost. That fabric did not appear to your house magically. That should be taken into consideration.
Operational costs include your utility bills (electricity and rent cost). Prada have sales clerks on their payroll which also add to the cost of the garment. My theory is that the original price gives justice to the cost they’re charging. I came up with $2768 which is nearer to the original posted price on their site.
Everything great!
And you’re extremely talented!
But the calculation is incorrect (as is obvious).
Nonetheless great video!
Best wishes ❤
oh my gosh thank you ❤
$3650!!!! Are they serious? That is such a basic design - for goodness sake, it’s what half of the fashion dolls of the world wear every day. Not even silk but tacky man-made nylon.
I’d much rather pay the $1700 for your dress - for the beading alone and not having to be a walking billboard for Prada!
Ate down
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