A Master Course in Fashion Design: How to Make the Best Clothes

Repetition in the pursuit of perfection is where we find innovation 🤌

You lucky son of a biscuit eater!

I have been enamored by the tile sweater since I saw the folk horror video for the artisanal collection. It’s a thing of beauty.

My great grandmother Moore made beautiful quilts and it reminds me of that aspect of story telling/story quilts, too.

I am familiar with delftware and love the color.

I picked up a rubber pair of boots in that shade of blue a few years ago and I look forward to pulling them out when it rains. They make me smile.

I appreciated so many aspects of this collection, start to finish.

My generation did distress their own clothes quite often. That’s how various types of jeans with holes became popular. We played, we did bleach washes, we cut/punctured/shot and washed a billion times. *Yes, it’s always better to start out oversized/in a much larger size (in denim and other fabrics) because after you dry them several times to perfect the fray they will shrink quite a bit.

It would be so fun to play with enzyme washes.

The details/cuts in linings reminded me of different types of paper art.

There was so much wonderful detail involved.

Who else is doing an 115 minute movie of low country horror folk tales??? A47 and they charge you to watch it...:D

Your passion is infectious

This is where my first time ever seeing clothing put out into a story. It really spoke to me how you were saying each piece of clothing has almost a backstory or like just a story.I do a lot of cleaning and I like having meaning in story behind each of my paintings and I didn’t know clothing could also have a backstory meaning to it so much so thank you so much for showing me that!❤

Pov: you've watched celebrity 😀

Your videos have inspired me to continue working to make couture garments from thrifted clothes that would otherwise be discarded and end up in land fills.

The most important think is to find your voice, not be scared or discourage. Tell your story as best you can, then you'll find your voice.
Thank you Bliss

Rob Ryan gif went hard Bliss

YOU WILL LIKE THIS I have been boiling, shrinking, ironing, boiling, shrinking, ironing, boiling, shrinking, ironing LINING fabric today so it looks like vintage lining in a linen suit...

AND that it is shrunk to its final size for the garment. EDIT: what he says about perfectionism in your work and repetition until its perfect and you KNOW the technique until it becomes muscle memory is SO important. I just spend a whole day hand-washing lining fabric and drying it in the sun! [also - keep a note book of what works - cos you wont remember in 6 month]

OH MY GOD I put so much time into choosing and creating my linings - I want them to be so understated, so low key that they leave a void in your expectations.

That void is [hopefully] filled by the realization anyone who has the confidence to fit such an understated lining must be REALLY proud of their work

As a beginner designer I definitely learned about the importance of creativity I'm this field. I love it here💚

The amount of knowledge I get through your videos is literally mind blowing

I love this video so much. I had the ideas and you put them into words so blissfully (npi). I struggle with attaching meaning to clothes I make but this has given me so many ideas!! Thank you :)

I learned that other people have had the same ideas I have, and that maybe I’m not crazy but also I should have acted sooner. 👍

so cool to understand how these top tier designers put their efforts to say something through clothes

I never thought to look deeper into my clothing than the color or the comfort of a garment. This video opened a new dimension in my mind for clothing. I learned to be more open with my designs and more experimental with them.

They make the best creative clothes.

i think the last statement you said was the most important. Fashion designers need to put more consideration and technicality into their craft even if their garments or definition of fashion isn't the same as the big fashion houses. You actually have to be even more technical and aware of your craft, so your ideals and creativity sends a powerful message.

my mind is blown by how much attention to detail goes in both the aesthetics and technical side

This is your best video yet!
(although I think I’ve said this on a few other videos, as well)

i felt like fashion is so much moree then just few appelling patterns and colors and cuts it's more then that.....like clothing and fashion can carry so much of stories knowledge and information and values one might never know.... and also how much lining is important and how it creates much more pleasing look and comfort i think loveee thessse videosss btw

Margiela > Galliano = Geniussquared

The importance of effective and creative storytelling in designing timeless pieces

Definitely inspired me, ig I never actually considered story telling thru clothing. This gave me (what I think are) some really good ideas. THANK YOU

I don't know if it was already mentioned, but the fabric of the coat is called herringbone fabric.

This video taught me the importance of detailing and searching within. It also thought me how simple questions in creating can form major detailing in and awareness of a garment

The blurry view brought into focus was 👌 i see u 🔥💯

I learned that storytelling is a HUGE part of fashion and if you want to stand out tell a story. Honestly this was a great video thank you for showing us this lovely collecting I fell in love at first sight when I seen that delftware sweater. This video has helped me a lot. Bliss you never miss with your outfits. P.S. Please I would love to watch the movie where can we find it at?

Thanks for this very interesting video. I re-purpose a lot of thrifted garments, even though a lot of my friends (none of whom sew!) can be a bit snooty about this. I spend as much time on the design and fit of these garments as I do when using new, expensive fabric and it mostly works out pretty well. So, thank you for your endorsement of this approach. I feel vindicated - perhaps even a little smug!

I've watched many of your videos, watching this one has made me question, what does it mean to be a designer?

I love you

Did the plate vest have Julian Schnabel's work as an inspiration? Or is the similarity just coincidental?

Awesome...I hate doing linings but they make the garment look professional and clean

wow your videos are great cant believe its taken so long to find you, I doubt youll see this but im currently doing a fellowship program thats helping me to foster my brand and id love to sit down and just talk to you about the story/ narrative that im trying to tell

just to hear you critique my ideas would be so interesting

Rewatching this because this a next level video

I learned what I felt intuitively that there is a connection between fashion design and fine-art sculpture especially when I saw the
"plate vest" using broken plate shards. I use broken studio ceramics in my fine-art sculpture. Fashion has historically and still does influences sculpture.

am i the only one here because there making a fashion designer oc

I learned that story telling is can be incorporated in ways that arent overpowering. these garments standout on their own even if you dont know the story, but they are just that much cooler when you do. story telling and concepting has been a struggle for me to learn and understand mostly due to the fact that i don't really like reading books, but through videos like this it helps me become better at analyzing stories that you could see anywhere.

It almost looks like Maison Margiela is channeling the work of HP Lovecraft, the horror writer. Lovecraft is famous for his twisted fishing village Innsmouth. Margiela dressing cthulhu and other monsters would be amazing. The best thing to wear when playing Eldritch Horror. Cooperative game that makes you that explorer playing against a game that is fighting back.

Tailoring and textiles are very important but I love the fibers ! 🥰🤟🏻❤️💋

Did they tell about bloody slavery in Indonesia ?

I'm only 1 minute in but I have to comment now (this is going to be a long one). Contextualising fashion as "storytelling" completely revolutionised the concept to me. My entire life I have thought of fashion as either clothes on my body or nonsense that has nothing to do with me. It wasn't until two weeks ago when my home was destroyed in a flood, and along with it my entire $300 collection of yarn and crocheted items I was selling, that I decided to get back into sewing. Over the past two weeks, I've watched videos on what sewing tools are used for what, how to tailor bodices from shells, what a how to make a skater skirt, how to start sewing, the history of fashion, how to start an ethical and sustainable fashion brand - and it wasn't until this comment that I realised I had stepped into a world that until now was completely foreign to me.

I am a storyteller. I have written novels, poems, speeches, short stories, a thesis, countless assignments, scripts, plays - you name it. I have this channel so I can comment on gay and trans happenings, but I'm always keeping storytelling in my mind. The stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell each other, the stories other people tell us. How we talk about the world frames how we see it and vice versa. And until the first minute of this video, fashion was an incomprehensible text written in a dead language and read only by rich people who would rather run me over in their Bentley than allow me to access welfare. Even that is a story - the rich think poor people deserve to be poor because we're too stupid and lazy to be rich. That is how I thought of the fashion world: people who think I'm too stupid, fat and lazy to be able to wear their clothes or exist in their world, another story.

The first minute of this video has lit a fire in me. I've recently worked out a style that suits me, after hunting through Depop for clothes that make me look like a cake. I want to create a fashion brand for full figure femmes that is long lasting quality, accessible, and looks delicious. I want everyone who wears my clothes to feel decadent and satiated. Good enough to eat, as it were. And that's a story. The world you have presented to me in one minute is one I want to fall into face first and swim around in like a chocolate fountain.

So thank you, really. I can't wait to watch the rest of this video.

So happy to find your channel! working in breakdown, ageing and dying….its the best job ever.

Interesting video, but please use correct terminology especially when talking about something you love so much! The top is made from knit patches with embroidered imagery, and then the patches are hand stitched together to form the shirt. A very different story (aesthetically and otherwise) would emerge if the imagery was knit into the patch patterns themselves. - cheers from a finicky crafts person who has been asked too many times if i do my weaving on a sewing machine :0

I think i often get caught up in fashion for the sake of fashion, and this reminded me of the importance of using fashion as a means of processing and expression. Margiela seems so aware and intentional about how its articles are situated within a cultural and chronological context, and as someone who mainly deals with thrift/fast fashion, i don’t often notice that intention.

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Thank you so much for your video, I watched this today with my fashion students and they loved that you explained the back story in such depth and they were wondering how you did your research. They realised that story telling doesnt have to be so litteral and that there is a true beauty in letting peple find out the story on their own. They found the concept of symbolism being on the lining and therefore closer to the person and that this has more meaning. The knitted patchwork top inspired students on how a story can move from one collection to the next and tell a story in doing so, the inspiration for this piece was also very intresting.

Do all the items of clothing incorporate the story?