I actually did recite this video word for word bar for bar on a date but for some reason my date disappeared and Non other than Rick Owens himself appeared wearing flared dept gallery sweats. Pretty insane.
i taught myself how to sew so i could steal gallery's pattern and make a pair of flared 501s for myself. fuck their price tag, but i think thats why they were successful in their "recycle" ethos too, jesse's tailoring basically started up a trend again. Rappers that could afford it burnt it the fuck out really quickly but those that couldnt were inspired to make their own. and people that were suprised gallery uses levis and painted over the tags completely missed the point lmao
The people that missed the point were never his target audience. He never intended for his brand to be so disgustingly main stream but it’s better to have that problem instead of being a brand barely able to make a living from.
Well, Virgil started Pyrex with discontinued Polo flannels so there’s that. You never know what your domino will be so this isn’t a failure, it’s just a stepping stone and good on them commanding such an outrageous price point. Art is art at the end of the day.
@@fhtv even a brand like chrome had a following before based on quality jewelry and their brand will live on for years after it dies completely as a trend. Amiri will be out of business in the next 10 years
The problem with a brand like this is that they'd never be able to scale to anything beyond a very niche market. When you're relying on sourcing a certain era of a certain style of a certain brand of jeans then manually reworking each pair, it's literally impossible to scale to do volume and get your price point down. This is all fine when your brand is hot and consistent with what high fashion is wearing, but completely falls apart when trends change and you can't command the same price tag. Flared denim with males NEVER sticks around long term through the course of history.
@@Skinner90210 but he’s talking about a cut of jeans… where I live all the the houseless people are rockin the trues everybody threw away 7 or 8 years ago and so I don’t see that shift happening for a bit .
You make an excellent point! 😅why do flare denim always come back ha . I was a teen in the 2000s and I remember, especially for women , everything was flared early 00s and we didn’t actually want that , I was constantly tailoring my own jeans on the leg opening , all of my guy friends too , and brought my sewing machine to high school a few days and did it for 5 bucks ha
@@EllsX76 I guess you didn't notice that my comment was from a year ago. The reason they're doing well now is because they pivoted their business model into mostly making machine made items in bulk at factories. If you look at their website, only a very small percentage of their items are still starting out as repurposed vintage garments and hand decorated. Back then, that's pretty much all they did and something like 80% of their business was from jeans that started out as vintage Levi's, had to be manually re-sewn to change the cuff cut, then were hand decorated. I was actually spot on with my prediction because they did announce they were shutting down, only to pop back up shortly after with this new business model. Without making that change, they wouldn't have made it.
@@ciko7064 ian accidentally sent someone $120, he asked for it back on twitter, i called him broke, he quote tweeted me, i quote tweeted him with a crying kitten gif, i ratio'd him & he deleted his tweets
I mean it is crazy that all it was was just vintage repurposed items but at the same time the concept was fire. At least to me, I think it’s just kinda cringe to hate on new clothing brands actually putting their ideas out and becoming successful. Gucci and Louis Vuitton have been around for so long it’s time for the new. Not their fault it blew up at the end of the day. Maybe put in this energy to creating your own brand too
@@contradataxman2991 lol make what you said make sense. So you agree with hating? 🤣 all I said was it’s cringe to hate on new brands, especially ones becoming successful
Honestly, I feel as Josue keeping creative integrity within himself, he saw where the brand was going and end up leaving to pursue his house label to keep true to his creative mind
I like his idea. Gallery dept probably doesn’t scale to the average consumer and most consumers in that price range are probably buying other brands with increased versatility.
These fashion labels are testing their customer's stupidity, I saw a balenciaga workman's Jacket that you see security guards wearing for over a grand.
yo fh Im a junior in highschool and I just started a fashion club your videos are gonna one of my main ways of educating club members and getting more people into fashion ty for making such great content :)
honestly never really knew about this brand. I’ve heard of it before, but after this explanation, I really respect what Josué set out to do with Gallery Dept. defo a guy to add to my fashion radar. I’ve been looking to get into making my own shit as well and this video inspires me to pursue that. gonna buy myself a sewing machine when I have the money.
that is really great to hear! and yeah oftentimes the popularity of a given brand can overshadow the creative director's message. i wish you luck with your creative endeavours!
I got hella gallery dept. don’t care where they got the jeans from. I knew all these pieces were like art paintings. Now everything that I have is sold out everywhere and the prices are through the roof.
HOT TAKE :The problem is that the same people that make it popular also kill it, let’s be honest when a brand makes it to the hood, People who don’t know themselves and want to feel like someone end up buying clothes like this and they overdue it/ make it look dirty. For people in the hood, we have seen people wear the same designer shirt a bunch of times and not carry themselves to the same standard of the clothes and it makes the clothes look dirty (Look at the guy who got killed trying to hurt the corner store owner in NYC with a fake Amiri Shirt. Plus those people don’t know how to put pieces together, They just buy it for the name to impress others & kids this year bought out all The Gallery department pieces so it got saturated like how my people killed Purple denim, Alexander McQueen, Vlone, Amiri and etc. This has to do with a lot of fashion brands only going for cash grabs and low hanging fruit that someone who just wants to feel like money when they have none goes to get their stuff. Raising the prices won’t help either, The pieces need to be limited and for the culture
This is an extremely bigoted content 🤦🏾♂️. Don't nobody around the hood besides dope boys wear trendy designer shit and they def don't wear it often .. it's jus the fact that once it's hot it's going downhill afterwards
you hate yourself. this might be the most brain dead comment on the internet. black people don’t even make a dent in sales, the people that are influenced by pop culture are white surbaban kids who can afford it
I’ve made big purchases like LV gear chrome hearts 600$+ but the need to pay 600 for 2 words and paint splatter is crazy. At least my chrome got designs and LV made by Virgil
What I love is that everyone nowadays can have a spot anywhere. Even people with no talent, no taste who make splatters on old clothes and call it art. What a time to be alive.
I’m not going to lie when I first seen gallery Department I never really was a fan because I had already known that it was reworked Levi’s but honestly never took time to really see the brand and understand the creative process of what they were trying to achieve but at the end of this I have a lot more respect for them But this is yet another example of why I don’t follow the trends wear what you like and if you’re gonna wear it for multiple seasons then buy it if not fuck it
if you buying things for people to see you in general i think its a lot to question about you…not saying you shouldn’t want attention but you should solely buy something just because you fw it. Even ppl who still wanna buy gallery should, don’t stop just cause er body else is that’s what’s actually lame.
Rappers ruin everything. I remember when he was across the street from pan pacific park and had the vintage black tee with skeleton man in it. Damn. That’s when it was fresh.
they thought they was asspizza lol pizza gone take their tag completely off and see his own on though. yo paint over something and charge that much is crazy lol
Really confused how they fell off? Right now they’re more popular than ever. Even got a Miami store now. Ain’t seen gallery everywhere more than right now
tell me y bro formally quit the brand, the website hasn't been updated, their instagram hasn't been updated, and they haven't announced anything new publicly
I knew it was reworked Levi’s. 2nd I have only ever bought clothes I like never for a trend . so and season or not I’m wearing my clothes for years to come
Good video but I don’t know if you have seen they make so many more pieces nowadays than the pants you should look into more they are far from just pants
Everyone gets their inspiration from different places.. art and expression cannot be price-tagged. You pay the prices for the art and the appreciation, otherwise just continue to talk and make it about the price if that’s your thing.
I’m a painter and find it funny as hell that people think someone’s ‘painting clothes’ as high fashion. Ok, I get it if you like it but why would you pay for it. If you want to buy me new clothes, I’ll give you Levi’s that look just like that.
