As a long time sewist, I can tell you that the dress at 2:06 has a bodice underneath (a boned corset to keep it securely in place). The fabric you see is actually draped onto the bodice and the ball is attached like an embellishment. At 2:11 you can actually see the top edge of the bodice when they show the dress from above. It’s how all high quality strapless dressed are constructed (wedding dresses and red carpet dresses, for instance). Lots of engineering in such a simple looking dress. ❤
Aww Bliss thank you! Including my granny ahaha, that was a great surprise! What I forgot to mention, is that those faded dresses also remind me of something that was heat pressed onto a fabric. Some fabrics, synthetic ones can take in colors better, while others not so much. You can reuse the same design a few times before the color and the finer details fade and blur. Doing something cool on the heat press is one of the first few accomplishments one has in fashion school. You’ve “designed” something. And as you become better and better, you master other skills, such as sewing, knitting etc it also fades into the background. Perhaps mocking Instagram brands that think screen printed t-shirt are the epitome of fashion?
The floating ball dress seems like a nod to the common magic trick done by magicians in stage shows. The ball is polished and the acts I've seen always used draped fabric.
The story telling of this channel is so unprecedented interactive theyre personal bliss plz keep this warm vibe around like keep the train noises even if you’re in a studio, as you become the biggest fashion informer on the platform. Intimacy sets you apart from the snobby and gate keeping. Thank you Bliss Foster!!!
The horizon blur looks like ikat technique vs a blured scan. A juxtaposition between a painstaking and literal dyeing technique that always ended up with unperfect/ dream-like blur of the intended pattern oppose to the literal machine working that intended to copy real imperfection into a perfect digital copy. Talking about the literal and imperfection of the time we are so easy to seek digital perfection.
I was just thinking palimpsest when you said it. 😊 I enjoy the open mindedness of these ‘what everyone thought of as references ‘ videos. So much more fun that sticking to old fashioned references. Good work Bliss and everyone else.
LOVED this. Full honestly, I didn’t love the collection for a long time. Especially the green/pink Polly Pocket look…it felt like JWA was going too student. With some of these interpretations, my appreciation for the overall collection has improved dramatically. Grateful for this video!
I remain unimpressed, but that is just me. I am not fond of the brand or designer, not that I know him. I’m of course talking about the clothes and not him personally. It’s never been my cup of tea. This was the most hideous show, imo. It was all over the place in the worst possible way.
Loved this… and love how you enhance your perspective and commentary by engaging your community and leveraging their feedback… amazing way to help us all learn more about a incredible show… gestalt
I know this season is loaded with Margiela references, but I can’t help but feel JW nicked a few elements form Yueqi Qi SS23. She did an all feather look and a similar printing technique just one season before. I think JW lifted a few elements from in the past too.
I’m learning from this channel, so, my opinion about the photocopied clothes is why would a designer go through all the time and effort to produce beautiful clothes when it’s disposable. So instead, print a copy of something beautiful on a plain dress. It’s easier and more memorable than trying to create the original inspiration. I don’t know
I absolutely 💯 ♥️ Jonathan Anderson design mind! Its quirky, fun but very wearable. He is for years now my favorite designer bc of that. Also with his own line, with the ironhangers 💁🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ ❤it You can go deep or see it as something light & everything in between. The people's comments on your insta post are that & I can't go as deep but with some I totally fully understand, agree And that shows the things i said are trueth in it ✌🏻🌸
It seems to me the audience is more visible here because of the lighting it's interesting to see them. Usually I think they're more in darkness. Or maybe it's the camera angles that's letting me see them more.
here are my thoughts on the trompe l’oeil dresses, it could possibly be a play or commentary on modern individuality, although each dress differs in the trompe l’oeil & cuts but at the end of the day the models are kinda wearing a similar dress possibly made of from what it seems similar material… It might be a stretch but; what i derived from it is that we are all cut from the same cloth.
I need a video about model's walks. I go back and romanticize all of these 80s and 90s models and I don't know if my nostalgia takes over or models don't wear cloths anymore the cloths wear them.
I was a teen during this period and loved it. It was a change. It was nice to see a bit more life on the runways under the big tents, and it was good to see the more business minded models taking advantage of the moment. I couldn’t argue with the notion that the designers and brands could stand to spare some more coin. Of course it couldn’t be allowed to last for an extended period. Models at large quickly went back to being clothes hangers with blank expressions and lifeless walks for the sake of the clothes. Not the people that make, sell or wear them.
I personally have never been able to understand the idea that there seemed to be more life & personality then but there really wasn’t because someone was still telling the models to smile and be pleasant when trying to sell things. It’s a job. I’ve never had a job where a supervisor or boss said do whatever, whenever. Especially if they were selling goods. Even after laying down some standard ground rules supervisors - employers should recognize their top sales associates. It’s often due to their personalities & effort Not because they lack them or because someone else told them to smile. I’d love to see everyone in the industry make better money and be given more creative license. I would also love to see some actual life in more than a rare few fashion shows again. I don’t know if we will see another age of the supermodel. Of course there are still models who are more popular and make more money not it not the same. A bit of a perfect and partially organic storm happened in the late 80s/early 90s.
I wear them like 5 days a week. Most videos, I’m changing out of those pants to put on something else; I’m literally wearing them as I type this 😂 Those are the best pants I’ve ever owned.
The printed dresses leaned very Foucault to me, the whole idea of simulacrum in the flesh. You make a dress, take a picture, print it on another dress, therefore changing it completely but inescapably referencing it forever. Cool.
I came for the doll clothes. They remind me of everything i kinda hated about 2000’s pop culture but in a smart way. The lava block ties into that for me too actually. Flame print. I def see the shift dresses as comment on people buying clothes online, digital flatness vs sculptural irl, and the AI take mentioned: And all that kind of resonates with 2000’s pop culture and internet nostalgia.
i'm surprised no one commented on the boots paired with the trump loy printed dresses. They look so disjointed both chromatically and aesthetically that it makes me wonder what the designers'intentions were since it's repeated in multiple looks
OK. As someone who is learning sewing/tailoring and fitting (thank you YT University / slash / Covid, and the Foundations Revealed membership scholarship) and is also learning the sewing-adjacent pleasure that is traditional leatherwork (thank you mostly Korean, British & Ukrainian YT leather artisans)... how the _Heck_ do you get leather to behave like that. Stumped. The most I can reach for is _maybe_ they used fusible horsehair interfacing to help build the under-structure? You can do that... with leather... just... wow. If you and your team could somehow get into their leather atelier...? My guess with the hovering-ball-gown/dress is they built a corset understructure, somehow draped the dress to the boddice? We found it...? _Insert Shameless Plug Here_ - My entry for the annual costuming/vintage/historic self-made clothing competition put on by Foundations Revealed (FR) is up for comment. Drop by and say 'Hi'? You can find me under my full name in the Apprentice Skill Level category - Cathy MacDonald-Zytveld. If you want to leave a comment you have to take out a Free membership in FR. Did I mention that it's free? In all seriousness, I'd love the feedback on how the vest turned out and what I could do differently the next go round. Thanks. Hope everyone is having a good start to their week. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Yo Bliss, WHY DIDNT U MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT VIVIENNE WESTWOOD'S DEATH- it is a CRIME that with all the fashion commentators I follow NO ONE said anything about the death of such an icon for MONTHS. 😭
Hi! 😊 first off, big agree, Vivienne was an absolute icon and changed a lot about contemporary fashion. We have an editorial rule that we don’t make a video unless we have something new to add to the conversation. There was so much coverage around her death that I didn’t feel I could make a video without just repeating what many others were already saying. It’s crucially important to me that I respect my audience’s time with every video. Trust me, I wanted to make a video, I just couldn’t figure out what to contribute to that dialogue that wasn’t already being said by many other publications. If that ever changes, we’ll happily make a video about it 💫💫
@@BlissFoster ngl, totally wasn't expecting you to respond but it means a lot. I'm just like, almost no big names reported on it that I can find, at least not where I'm from, and I cannot find a single UA-cam video posted by a fashion commentator on it. I'm like I think she at least deserves a Farewell Short 🥺
Maybe not a whole video but like, so many peoples made things for all the other fashion designers who have passed but just skipped over Vivienne Westwood entirely. 💀
@@BlissFoster Maybe a retrospective worked into the end of a Q&A? She's too iconic a touchstone to let pass without a moment. And... everybody does everything differently. Especially when it comes to sewing garments for bodies in motion. Dude? She. Saved. Tartan. That fact alone is worth 5 to 15 minutes... I type as a Scotts-Canadian, so I have my biases... ;) - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
6:28 about the blur dresses, I wonder if it’s about making commentary about the reproduction market? The imitators? Or maybe a comment about wearing historical garments by proxy? There is the controversial moment of Kim Kardashian and the museum that somehow allowed a very important dress to be sold and broken by somebody who just in the same vein was able to make an exact copy, so it’s destruction was in vain. So perhaps it’s about wearing things that honor the past, because as much as we want to wear the original, it’s too precious to do so.
You’re assuming that the document is readable and complete 😅 I didn’t log every comment for this project haha. The document was just used a loose script, everything in there is in the video 💫💫
Wow! loads assigning influence to Anderson's work. So does this mean his work lacks "authenticity". We have spent a lot of time over the past ten years policing appropriation yet it feels as though we are hot on the trail of those copying. Of course copying is actually central to a great deal of design - Margiela. Maybe we are focusing in a bit much on "like" and take a broader view - a great deal of copying raises the matter of context unlike any other design motivation
"WE FOUND IT" was hilarious
I died. Bliss just has the best out of nowhere one liners
LOLL i was just ab to comment this
As a long time sewist, I can tell you that the dress at 2:06 has a bodice underneath (a boned corset to keep it securely in place). The fabric you see is actually draped onto the bodice and the ball is attached like an embellishment. At 2:11 you can actually see the top edge of the bodice when they show the dress from above.
It’s how all high quality strapless dressed are constructed (wedding dresses and red carpet dresses, for instance). Lots of engineering in such a simple looking dress. ❤
There’s also a sense of the garments being in a liminal state of being between different states of clothing, between a colorful dress and a fabric.
Aww Bliss thank you! Including my granny ahaha, that was a great surprise!
What I forgot to mention, is that those faded dresses also remind me of something that was heat pressed onto a fabric. Some fabrics, synthetic ones can take in colors better, while others not so much. You can reuse the same design a few times before the color and the finer details fade and blur.
Doing something cool on the heat press is one of the first few accomplishments one has in fashion school. You’ve “designed” something. And as you become better and better, you master other skills, such as sewing, knitting etc it also fades into the background. Perhaps mocking Instagram brands that think screen printed t-shirt are the epitome of fashion?
bro! why is this channel not popping like crazy, such rich content.
Wow, so many great ideas. People from this community are smart, creative and good with words! I love how everyone can interpret clothes differently ✨
The floating ball dress seems like a nod to the common magic trick done by magicians in stage shows. The ball is polished and the acts I've seen always used draped fabric.
Thanks!
Thank YOU, Chris! Truly appreciated 😌
claiming my spot in the jw anderson pidgeon bag
The story telling of this channel is so unprecedented interactive theyre personal bliss plz keep this warm vibe around like keep the train noises even if you’re in a studio, as you become the biggest fashion informer on the platform. Intimacy sets you apart from the snobby and gate keeping. Thank you Bliss Foster!!!
Thanks god someone analysing loewe!
I just love the flat shoes and boots with the dresses. Cheers!
The horizon blur looks like ikat technique vs a blured scan. A juxtaposition between a painstaking and literal dyeing technique that always ended up with unperfect/ dream-like blur of the intended pattern oppose to the literal machine working that intended to copy real imperfection into a perfect digital copy. Talking about the literal and imperfection of the time we are so easy to seek digital perfection.
Ive been starving for a channel like yours all of my life and will be joining you patreon next pay day!
This way of diving into a runway show was super stimulating and fun. I liked hearing other people’s perspectives and interpretations.
I was just thinking palimpsest when you said it. 😊 I enjoy the open mindedness of these ‘what everyone thought of as references ‘ videos. So much more fun that sticking to old fashioned references. Good work Bliss and everyone else.
This video was particularly fun but I expect nothing less when we are talking about JW.
exeptionally good episode again! need more of those community analyzing things, loved the spirit
Look 13 literally Made me Go oooohhhh
Great video!
LOVED this. Full honestly, I didn’t love the collection for a long time. Especially the green/pink Polly Pocket look…it felt like JWA was going too student.
With some of these interpretations, my appreciation for the overall collection has improved dramatically. Grateful for this video!
I remain unimpressed, but that is just me.
I am not fond of the brand or designer, not that I know him. I’m of course talking about the clothes and not him personally.
It’s never been my cup of tea.
This was the most hideous show, imo. It was all over the place in the worst possible way.
I Read the trompe l'œil dresses more as a walking idea, as if he wanted to send the abstraction of the idea of the clothes.
Loved this… and love how you enhance your perspective and commentary by engaging your community and leveraging their feedback… amazing way to help us all learn more about a incredible show… gestalt
definitely a very personal interpretation on the blurriness of Richter!
I know this season is loaded with Margiela references, but I can’t help but feel JW nicked a few elements form Yueqi Qi SS23. She did an all feather look and a similar printing technique just one season before. I think JW lifted a few elements from in the past too.
Haven’t watched one of these in awhile, what a fun watch. Fantastic video format bliss much luv
thank you Bliss, you're so amazing
To me it's like elevating the tie dye trend.
sooooooooo good, thanks Bliss!
I’m learning from this channel, so, my opinion about the photocopied clothes is why would a designer go through all the time and effort to produce beautiful clothes when it’s disposable. So instead, print a copy of something beautiful on a plain dress. It’s easier and more memorable than trying to create the original inspiration. I don’t know
My idle intrest in your channel has turn into an all out binge fest! on to the next video!
love the polly pocket pieces🦋💖🦋
Wow Bliss, thank you for the video its soooo good and your interaction between your followers…amazing!❤
Great episode. Tons of inspiration here. Also, your hair here looks great on you.👍🏼
Great concept of what you have done for this video ❤
BLisss hiiii, thank youu soooo much for your content...for taking the time! You have given me access to a lot of knowledge and inspiration
Great one! And also, what a collection!
Bliss, this is unrelated but your hair looks majestic!!!!
I absolutely 💯 ♥️ Jonathan Anderson design mind! Its quirky, fun but very wearable.
He is for years now my favorite designer bc of that.
Also with his own line, with the ironhangers 💁🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ ❤it
You can go deep or see it as something light & everything in between.
The people's comments on your insta post are that & I can't go as deep but with some I totally fully understand, agree
And that shows the things i said are trueth in it
✌🏻🌸
Really fun video!
It reminds me being in first year of my carrier as a junior 3D artist.
This was such a fun video!
9:31 Oh THAT'S what I have. My glasses don't do crap for me
It seems to me the audience is more visible here because of the lighting it's interesting to see them. Usually I think they're more in darkness. Or maybe it's the camera angles that's letting me see them more.
WE FOUND IT!
The trompe l'oeil looks remind me of the lovely TSA x-ray catwalk
TSA?
Hello Bliss! I love your video so much. Where can I see all the last comments of Hadeeel? Thank you so much!
Nice clean lines.
Exceptional video !❤
here are my thoughts on the trompe l’oeil dresses, it could possibly be a play or commentary on modern individuality, although each dress differs in the trompe l’oeil & cuts but at the end of the day the models are kinda wearing a similar dress possibly made of from what it seems similar material…
It might be a stretch but; what i derived from it is that we are all cut from the same cloth.
PLEASEEEE DO A LOEWE SERIESSSSS
lol, "We found it!" Congrats guys.
love u bliss :,)
The dress being held up with the “folding ball” is supposed to be a dress held up with a with a pushpin going “through” the person
I need a video about model's walks. I go back and romanticize all of these 80s and 90s models and I don't know if my nostalgia takes over or models don't wear cloths anymore the cloths wear them.
I was a teen during this period and loved it. It was a change. It was nice to see a bit more life on the runways under the big tents, and it was good to see the more business minded models taking advantage of the moment.
I couldn’t argue with the notion that the designers and brands could stand to spare some more coin.
Of course it couldn’t be allowed to last for an extended period. Models at large quickly went back to being clothes hangers with blank expressions and lifeless walks for the sake of the clothes.
Not the people that make, sell or wear them.
I personally have never been able to understand the idea that there seemed to be more life & personality then but there really wasn’t because someone was still telling the models to smile and be pleasant when trying to sell things.
It’s a job. I’ve never had a job where a supervisor or boss said do whatever, whenever. Especially if they were selling goods.
Even after laying down some standard ground rules supervisors - employers should recognize their top sales associates. It’s often due to their personalities & effort Not because they lack them or because someone else told them to smile.
I’d love to see everyone in the industry make better money and be given more creative license.
I would also love to see some actual life in more than a rare few fashion shows again.
I don’t know if we will see another age of the supermodel. Of course there are still models who are more popular and make more money not it not the same. A bit of a perfect and partially organic storm happened in the late 80s/early 90s.
he really does love those Shinya Kozuka x Dickies pants I feel like he’s wearing them every other video
I wear them like 5 days a week. Most videos, I’m changing out of those pants to put on something else; I’m literally wearing them as I type this 😂 Those are the best pants I’ve ever owned.
The printed dresses leaned very Foucault to me, the whole idea of simulacrum in the flesh. You make a dress, take a picture, print it on another dress, therefore changing it completely but inescapably referencing it forever. Cool.
Would have been genius if they were blurred images of original loewe archive pieces!
Claim Your Underground
And it has pockets.
does anyone know how Trompe loeil garments like these are created? how do you go about printing such a large image onto clothes?
Wonder if the big cubes are a contrast to curves of human body
I came for the doll clothes.
They remind me of everything i kinda hated about 2000’s pop culture but in a smart way.
The lava block ties into that for me too actually. Flame print.
I def see the shift dresses as comment on people buying clothes online, digital flatness vs sculptural irl, and the AI take mentioned:
And all that kind of resonates with 2000’s pop culture and internet nostalgia.
2:28 honestly as a guy (and a gay one at that) i was expecting it to be a prince albert’s piercing 💀
😂🤣 I think we might have to look to Carol Christian Poell for that reference
the instagram has good idears
i'm surprised no one commented on the boots paired with the trump loy printed dresses. They look so disjointed both chromatically and aesthetically that it makes me wonder what the designers'intentions were since it's repeated in multiple looks
i cant believe this cool shit is coming out of a brand ive only associated with logo tees
OK. As someone who is learning sewing/tailoring and fitting (thank you YT University / slash / Covid, and the Foundations Revealed membership scholarship) and is also learning the sewing-adjacent pleasure that is traditional leatherwork (thank you mostly Korean, British & Ukrainian YT leather artisans)... how the _Heck_ do you get leather to behave like that. Stumped. The most I can reach for is _maybe_ they used fusible horsehair interfacing to help build the under-structure? You can do that... with leather... just... wow. If you and your team could somehow get into their leather atelier...?
My guess with the hovering-ball-gown/dress is they built a corset understructure, somehow draped the dress to the boddice? We found it...?
_Insert Shameless Plug Here_ - My entry for the annual costuming/vintage/historic self-made clothing competition put on by Foundations Revealed (FR) is up for comment. Drop by and say 'Hi'? You can find me under my full name in the Apprentice Skill Level category - Cathy MacDonald-Zytveld.
If you want to leave a comment you have to take out a Free membership in FR. Did I mention that it's free? In all seriousness, I'd love the feedback on how the vest turned out and what I could do differently the next go round.
Thanks. Hope everyone is having a good start to their week.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Yo Bliss, WHY DIDNT U MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT VIVIENNE WESTWOOD'S DEATH- it is a CRIME that with all the fashion commentators I follow NO ONE said anything about the death of such an icon for MONTHS. 😭
Hi! 😊 first off, big agree, Vivienne was an absolute icon and changed a lot about contemporary fashion. We have an editorial rule that we don’t make a video unless we have something new to add to the conversation. There was so much coverage around her death that I didn’t feel I could make a video without just repeating what many others were already saying. It’s crucially important to me that I respect my audience’s time with every video. Trust me, I wanted to make a video, I just couldn’t figure out what to contribute to that dialogue that wasn’t already being said by many other publications. If that ever changes, we’ll happily make a video about it 💫💫
@@BlissFoster ngl, totally wasn't expecting you to respond but it means a lot. I'm just like, almost no big names reported on it that I can find, at least not where I'm from, and I cannot find a single UA-cam video posted by a fashion commentator on it. I'm like I think she at least deserves a Farewell Short 🥺
Maybe not a whole video but like, so many peoples made things for all the other fashion designers who have passed but just skipped over Vivienne Westwood entirely. 💀
@@BlissFoster Maybe a retrospective worked into the end of a Q&A? She's too iconic a touchstone to let pass without a moment. And... everybody does everything differently. Especially when it comes to sewing garments for bodies in motion. Dude? She. Saved. Tartan. That fact alone is worth 5 to 15 minutes... I type as a Scotts-Canadian, so I have my biases... ;)
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
she has a very strong neodymium magnet on the on her back to keep it up
interprétation de ce que martin margiela aurait pu également faire chez hermes.
Oui, nous espérons analyser cela bientôt! 💫💫
I really don't like loewe but great video!
6:28 about the blur dresses, I wonder if it’s about making commentary about the reproduction market? The imitators? Or maybe a comment about wearing historical garments by proxy? There is the controversial moment of Kim Kardashian and the museum that somehow allowed a very important dress to be sold and broken by somebody who just in the same vein was able to make an exact copy, so it’s destruction was in vain. So perhaps it’s about wearing things that honor the past, because as much as we want to wear the original, it’s too precious to do so.
Can you please make the document public 😫😂
You’re assuming that the document is readable and complete 😅 I didn’t log every comment for this project haha. The document was just used a loose script, everything in there is in the video 💫💫
best
👍🏿👏🏿
It’s giving me Jesus shroud.
Oh lol yea it kinda does 😂
Wow! loads assigning influence to Anderson's work. So does this mean his work lacks "authenticity". We have spent a lot of time over the past ten years policing appropriation yet it feels as though we are hot on the trail of those copying. Of course copying is actually central to a great deal of design - Margiela. Maybe we are focusing in a bit much on "like" and take a broader view - a great deal of copying raises the matter of context unlike any other design motivation
spent way too much time talking about the print dresses that were clearly a Margiela reference stylized with blurring
looks like...oh lerd
What is a clitoris??
Please don’t make me watch anymore of these clothes . 😬
Thanks!