REACTING TO SIMONE ROCHA X JEAN PAUL GAULTIER HAUTE COUTURE 

HI EVERYONE!! I'm so sorry there aren't too many reference images in the actual video so please see this Google Drive folder with all the reference imagery for the collection! drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JgVAEibL-o1ir1CGGg5Q7kWAmWRn1i1i?usp=drive_link

Please tell me Im not the only one who gets excited when Luke says "... now ...", knowing I'm about to hear some obscure and fascinating snippet of fashion history?

After seeing this collection, im convinced more than ever than Simone Rocha should take over at McQueen.

Luke is so cute in how he mixes up "knit" with CROCHET. As another poster commented, it is always done "by hand" and this is true. Luke is commenting on this designer's Irish background but has not mentioned that she (the designer) is also part Portuguese. As a half Portuguese person(from the "Islands" Madeira), I can attest to the fact that this element is also VERY Portuguese also. Any woman that is Portuguese and or has a connection to the "Old World" has a collection of crocheted items from (usually) little old Portuguese ladies in your family that gift you crochet items. Just like it is IMPOSSIBLE to leave an Old World Portuguese woman's home without a huge amount of food*, you can't leave without gifts of crocheted items. *I mentioned ONCE that I like Fava beans to my grandma's friend and now EVERY time I visit she gives me at least 3-5 lbs of fresh, cleaned Fava beans in lrg freezer bags)

It's a breathtaking collection. Very ethereal and feminine in a broad and imaginative way. The way she blends this punk rock vibe with romanticism...love it! 🌹

You are amazing for including the folder so we could peruse the reference looks! It was so interesting (and fun) to take my time and look at all these gorgeous looks.

🌹🎀🌹🎀🌹 What a stunning collection! The perfect fusion of two of my favourite designers. Patiently waiting for the Margiela video.🙏🏽

I love your analysis and contextualisation and your references are lit

I’m Irish and currently doing a tourism course. I just did my project about Irish arts & crafts on her. It’s shocking how little known she is, everyone knows John Rocha because he had a line in Debenhams (defunct now) which was like our JC Pennys.

yes more couture please! 😭

Luke, can you please do a video on Law Roach’s career 🙏🏽 pls or even just a video about how stylist work?

I was just looking at her own collection on vogue runway yesterday!! There is a lot of her personal style in here for sure. The woven hat was giving Pikmin but make it fashion 🤣

You MUST react to baftas red carpet. There are many amazing outfits 😊

Did you know that crochet cannot be mechanically made. It's just some one with a hook and thread. Love that. Enjoyed this video. xxJane

Beautiful collection! And great research on your part, as always.

I love the silver rose-scepter thing

You and Bliss Foster (yt) are my fav fashion commentators. Good work!

I love that you're so knowledgeable of simone rocha, i've been a fan of hers for a few years

✨I ALWAYS ENJOY WATCHING FASHION THRU YOU✨🧚🏾💫

I'm an everyday woman who doesn't know much about fashion, but I must say that this channel is a story for life. This collection, wow I want to wear it all. Incredible.❤❤

Loved that collection, so many really interesting silhouettes and motifs and inspiration from JPG's iconic designs. A few notes: the panniers are more inspired by the Robes de Style from the 1920's than direct 18th century reference (the Robes de Style were inspired by the 18th Century dresses of course) The marine motifs are so JPG, the hats, the shells. I grew up in Paris in the 80's and 90's and loooooved watching the runway Haute Couture shows with my mum, JPG and LaCroix were our favorites.

THIS!!! JUST WOW!! ALSO I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS,I LEARN SO MUCH

I love you so much! Good eye! Knowing your designers! Pinpointing your remarks! Calling it out as you see it! And give credit to those who deserve the credit! good job, young man!😊

I really appreciate the technical aspects and the historical insights that I've learned from this video. ❤

i said this in the short but I adore this collection. I loveeee the combination of simone rocha's sheerness and femininity and the sensuality of jpg. it hits RIGHT in my aesthetic, while the separate brands themselves are just slightly off from what i want to wear

I’ll never be able to rock one of these stunning pieces and that’s okay…. I’m more than happy to admire their beauty and magic from here. Wow. Just wow.

Madonna 's Pepsi controversy had to do with her Like A Prayer video and song. Pepsi filmed a sweet commercial using the song, (it only aired once) not knowing her actual video for the song would include her dancing in front of burning crosses and kissing a black saint/statue that turned into a real black man. Pope John Paul II was not pleased, and neither was Pepsi who was going to sponsor her Like A Prayer tour. Pepsi declined to sponsor her tour, but it has been said that Madonna kept the 5 million she was paid for the commercial. Either way, it just made the song and video more popular. Like a Prayer is probably Madonna's best song of the 80's. Damn, I am old! I graduated from high school in the late 80;s

I loved it very much more than so many others.i was impressed and made me want to see more loved it ❤thank you for the in depth video as always you are awesome.

I watch you because you tell it like it is. Love you ❤

wow, i love each piece in this collection, especially the red dress towards the end

I really needed a video from Luke ❤

Some of these were truly beautiful. The last gown, the wedding dress... I think the fact that NO ONE in the viewing seats were even looking at it says a lot. It just lacked any wow factor even though the material was pretty.

Luke I'd love if you posted a long form video on Robert Wun and his trajectory as a designer I think his recent couture week showing was one of the most memorable and made waves on social media even outside of fashion circles

I can't believe some of these people in the comments moaning because you weren't showing the reference garments in the video along with the looks!! WTH! The amount of research you put into these videos is crazy and going through a designer's entire life's work to find the looks and reference them is crazy!😍 I would love to see these moaners try and do it. Thanks for an amazing video.....I always learn so much from them. And PPS to the moaners the reference imagery is in the first pinned comment. Knock yourselves out! 😀😛

The green snakes remind me of Saint Patrick imagery.

hya Luke. yes this collection collab is wonderful amd beautiful....I can see you do your research regarding fashion influences and how designers influence each other..In 1982 first Paris collection Vivienne Westwood showed "Nostalgia of Mud" featuring conical satin bras worn over school jumperes with muddy petticoats.....I was at this Tuileries fashion show !!! so sorry to be a big nerd but JEAN PAUL GAULTIER was there ....and following the show i noticed some inspirations had flowed his sudio way !!l ...bytw u can see pickies of this show in ID magazine NO 8 ....jadoring roasts. .....luv D.x ..UK

Thanks for all the research. You rock!

Wow A PERFECT collection!!! And love your in-depth commentaries and scholarly insights. BTW it is DAMask not daMASK the name comes from the textiles origin in Damascus

Even the Gaultier fragrances use the human torso male/female for packaging ❤

Thank you for also mentioning that corsets are not these torture devices we are taught that they were ❤️

The symbol of God's eye is actually much older than American bills. It was used during baroque period in Europe, e.g. 1525 in paining of Jacopo da Pontormo.

Wonderful! And I can vividly remember when Madonna wore that corset and how absolutely shocking it was. She did change the world.

I can see that Breton shirt look being adapted into a gown with a ribbon train and completely EATING up a red carpet.

The collection is neat,petite and ready to eat.

In the third photo look at the back of that pink dress in the second photo! Amazing!

YAAAS! Lets gooo peopleeee

Patiently waiting for the channel member version then 🥲

Yay! Margiela coming! Love that! I liked this one also so now I'm happy to patiently wait for Margiela while watching this video. :-) Thanks Luke!

Love you, Luke! Please stay as unaffected as you are today! You're the best! I'm not a member, but I have joined your free group. I'm still supporting a child... sigh.

I think look 3(?) may also be referencing the rigolo trim from Mary Antoinnett’s day. The loosening of the corset strapst that fall to the floor make me thing she was going for a version of it.

Great video, Luke!! Whats up with all these entitled people in your comments?

Thank you!

There aren’t enough adjectives for me to describe what I’ve just seen. For the first time ever I like or loved every single look. The red ‘thorn’ dress was exquisite and the highlight for me. Also Tess in the sheer/ dangling ribbons dress. I think her body was made for it. All the Gautier references with Rocha spins, fantastic. 1 tiny dislike was the hip pad with the Breton/ribbon stripe look but the top more than made up for it. I just joined the channel so I haven’t watched the member video. Yet. I don’t think my opinion will change.

Marvelous Art Form! Great Commentary!

Phew….Thank GOD you mentioned that the Maison Margiela by John Galliano review is coming! 🤣🙏🤣 This JPG review is great too, though.

Question… I don’t know much about couture. Will any of these pieces in any form be part of ready to wear. Such as the sailor hats? Or will they only be for reserved clientele as custom pieces?

She understood her assignment 100%

WHY AREN'T YOU SHOWING THE REFERENCE GARMENTS!?!?!?

Look 7 is my favorite model Yilan 💞💞 just wanted to hype her up real quick

I truly loved this collection it was soooo goooooddd

Ubh is the Irish for egg. Did i hear you reference that?

luke, we need janauary 2024 fashion roast. I''ve been waiting so long

It's an impressive and restrained collection- I think we all understand the impulse to reference everything JPG- if any of us were lucky enough to be invited to design one single JPG couture collection we'd be too busy enjoying ourselves to think 'does this work as a cohesive collection or am I just having fun rollicking in the archives?'

So lucky to catch this as i'm about to sleep ❤

Loved the collection

Stunning collection

31:17 it's also worth pointing out that she seems to have starched the dress, so it's looks like cut paper. Cut paper decorations originated in China.

There is also Lanvin Robe de Style references in the dresses I can see where the 18th century element exists silhouette is slighty too low in the waist to just be 18th century

Yes panier reference, but more robe de style from the 1920s.

I think the 3rd look might also be a nod to tang dynasty hanfu as hanfu from this dynasty has a very particular bust style

first (not bot) 😄 edit 37:26 the bridal ivory/black dress got me 🔥

We want one million 🌟🌟🌟

Maybe some more exotic brands? Like guo?

One of the best HC shows in recent years, not saying that lightly btw

can someone please explain to me how knit was expensive but crochet was affordable?

when referencing another look from an older collection, providing a picture would be nice too

That IS Illuminati!

Pls do the best and the worst on ur runsway collection analysis!!!

Just a suggestion, ps I like your videos, could you slow down the zoom in and outs. You have a lot of very quick zoom in and outs, and after a while it was giving me a headache. I am not sure if it affected anyone else, but I wasn't able to finish the video.

Thom Browne at Chanel, Simone Rocha at McQueen, heck anyone else at Burberry

Luke can you do video about the red carpet fashion at the Bafta awarda?

Happy to see all these references to styles prior to 1900! Rocha and Gaultier have, at least, got my attention. Just keep playing with this, designers! But also, I think there may be a historical/political reference. All of art, including fashion, is suppose to mirror the time in which it is made. By making the Marie Antoinette reference, it is signaling the attitude of the rich - going for more oppulence, while the poor are ready to take them down for the lack of human rights. It is a good warning for all to heed. Upheavals are never fun and you don't know what type of government you will get in the end. Sometimes it's great! But sometimes it is hell on earth! I prefer to continue to live in a democratic republic.

As a fellow fashion RU-vidr we need the references doll!

I loooove ur voice 🤌🏾

Never been this early 🥹 😂

So nice why don't we see these looks on celebs am I just missing noticing them

Luke I can't see the channel member version! The last video on there is from a month ago :(

Love the turtleneck! Where is it from please?

When you zoom in, can you hold it a little longer? Please?

Love the sweater! Who are you wearing?

The synergy was with Haider Ackermann - so far the best collaboration and synergy - sorry love you darling Luke, but this time you have it wrong.

Hunger Games vibe

You didn't spend any time on that amazing red one.

Mr. Pearl is the one that Dita Von Teese gets a lot of her corsets from.

Temu tardigrade

channel members 👀

So beautiful. But if it isn't making me, an average joe, a little psychologically uncomfortable, is it haute couture?

Does anyone know where to find the booty bouquet look, I need to see it

YOU are weird, wacky and wonderful!!!

Hard to watch because the dresses were moved in and out too often. Sorry think your videos are great, just this time too much movement for me. Thank you