Understanding Dior Haute Couture 

fun fact about tarot cards, most people make the assumption that they are made to predict the future, however they actually are meant to help the consumer initially draw out their needs in their subconscious, predicting the future is not likely considering our actions and everything around us are constantly changing our outcomes but they do help us look more closely at the true problems that we tend to avoid confronting ourselves, by having cards with very particular meanings the consumer will be the one to put their energy into the cards and ask the cards their questions which only they would know and understand personally, there fore, tarot is actually more related to psychology than it would be to what most consider to be magic

"Y'all they literally start making out" I died 😂😂

As a practitioner I've never clicked so fast 😂You did great for someone not familiar with tarot

The first card drawn is the High Priestess, who is handing a key to “Rebecca”- this card is the opening sequence of the reading, and this card is known to be the revealer of secrets. As she dwells between two plains, she is usually depicted between two pillars and the setting lacks this iconography, even though it is referenced quite subtly later on. Fun fact- In the Visconti Tarot, this card holds a striking resemblance to Maria Visconti (a relative of the duke of Milan). She is also seen wearing a tri-papal crown- but oddly enough there is a mix of the Rider-Waite Tarot and Visconti. (I’m rambling, I know but there is a point to this). Now the two pillars that frame the card are black and white (with adorned pomegranates)- Rebecca is seen wearing in female form a White dress (with a pomegranate design), and as male a black suit. She is the duality of the two pillars, or embodies it. As we enter the second card drawn, Justice derives a blade and unbalances a scale. This card does not symbolize justice, but unbalance- and The Fool Intervenes in her decision. I believe that in this case- the fool doesn’t represent a new beginning- Usually the second and third cards drawn represent the persons current state- and the fool states in this case to “look back” In order to find balance Rebecca must understand something she knew. She is depicted wearing loud silhouettes with mismatched patterns because it is inviting her to look back to a child-like time where the Priestess’s answer lies. there is also a "Wizard of Oz" reference- the fool is kind of like the Scarecrow. LOL I'm gonna stop now cause I doubt some will read this and I will crawl back to viewing instead of engaging hehehehehe

This collection have designs that actually goes along with it's narative for once, or at least some of them do. It's also the least commercial one.

Female identifying person here! This is a great and complicated question, and I have so much to say because I’m a chatty Kathy….. Ok, I will begin by saying that I definitely believe the original criticism and polarity with which the New Look was received is very relevant today. WWII brought so much change to “woman’s role” and I think that during this time a lot of females experienced a new sense of worth and value. For many females, this was the first time they were able to be more than their body, more than their ability to bear children, more than their domestic skill set. So, being presented with a type of “uniform of femininity” as the war ended felt, for many, reductive and regressive. But as you are well aware the response to strife is historically escapism and grandeur. This is why we wear more make-up and higher heels when there’s a recession, but we won’t get into the economic part of this discussion. So, what does any of this have to do with your question? Well, today we are in a world of intersectional feminism. There are soooooo many approaches to feminism today. We have female-identifying people who believe in taking their bodies for themselves and that dressing sexy is their prerogative, their choice, and nobody else’s business. Conversely, we have female-identifying people who believe that showing off curves and maintaining hypersexuality in dress is perpetuating the male gaze and the idea of desire-ability through a man’s eyes- which benefits the patriarchy. So really, it is at its core, the same controversy. And what I love love love sooooooo much about this collection, and this short film is that the space for both is created. Because really, the masculine and feminine live in all of us- it’s the harmony of both that we must seek out. For this reason- the need for harmony between the masculine and the feminine, I believe that bar suit upgrade is spectacular. The original bar suit gave many women back their femininity, but the upgrade gives us a space to do the opposite and embrace masculinity as well. Fashion mirrors history, and it’s a beautiful example of exactly where we are in the here and now.

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So, a personal opinion about the Dior New Look and the velvet smoking jacket and the case of empowerment and disempowerment. Highly subjective, since I was born way past fifties and in USSR of all places. I've always been curvy since my body had started developing. I mimicked my mother's dressing habits and her style is sport casual. I used to be very ashamed of showing off and afraid of that typical masculine attention to my body. I would blame myself for dressing immodestly if anyone paid too much attention to me. So I hid behind sportswear or, when in school, a jacket. It took me years to develop a style that I enjoy (still work in progress, as it should be). I personally need courage to express bold, pronounced femininity. I think it's like an acknowledgment I owe to myself. Something that unapologetically spells the beauty I was born into. So to me that Dior New Look or a corset or a flowing skirt is a joy, actually, and unisex straight jacket is just a way to hide, to deny my body, and now it feels kinda like a betrayal of the things I love about myself and the things I claimed past adolescence. But, as I said, this is my own experience, and I am just one person. It's just a perspective I'd like to share.

Maria GC actually did an amazing job on this collection. She doesn't deserve the hate she gets...

This may be my favorite collection, like, ever. I like collections that are inspired by fairly specific things, like a series of paintings or a certain tarot deck. Themes like "water" or "inspiration" are things I think Iris Van Herpen gets away with, but not many other people make it meaningful enough

If the death card is the right way up it means rebirth and good things, however if it's upside down it means death and bad things to come. It's one of the only cards where death isn't bad when right side up. The back ground and images around the main character are all significant and carry a meaning. It's why people gravitate to certain decks because it's not just the card but the background imaging that carrys a story and meaning to the card and deck. That jacket is amazing. The details are just breathing

I have zero clue about fashion but I’m in love with your way of story telling, passion and your parent’s house I’m hooked

i like how in the beginning of the short film when rebecca goes to pull a card she pulls it towards herself for a split second and then pushes it towards the reader. it just shows how unsure she is of herself and it’s such a small amazing detail!

"Hopped up on a bit too much pre-workout .." I die!

Tis I, an androgynous-presenting woman with opinions about the bar jacket. Firstly, I can understand why second wave feminists were mad at the original Dior look. To ME, it feels very much like 'suit... for WOMEN!' in the way that many things feel unnecessarily gendered in design and marketing. It was taking something and bending over backwards to make it as feminine as possible it a way that feels patronising. But from a grander perspective, it was a step towards suiting and 'masculine' styles being reinterpreted for female/feminine bodies. As much as I want to, I cannot fit my chest into a suit jacket designed for a 'man' in a way that's comfortable. The velvet version from this collection really does feel like an upgrade to me. Perhaps not an 'upgrade' but rather a 'reinterpretation' of the bar's original goal. I really do like it. Instead of feeling so jarringly feminine, this new version is more focused on blurring the gendered lines rather than varying one silhouette into two gendered versions (like the og bar). With the overall movement to de-gender fashion and neutralise silhouettes, this feels like the right move from Dior. There is something mischievous and powerful about this jacket but I can't quite pinpoint where that energy comes from. Reminds me of some of Bowie's suiting in The Man who Fell to Earth, but that's besides the point here.

I suggest an analysis of CELINE HOMME - TEEN KNIGHT POEM collection. I think Hedi stays a relevant and controversial figure and the collection might be his most commercial and yet interesting one in years. Plus the chateau is to die for. Really enjoying the content.

The way that your videos are planned and set up is giving me lifeeeee so detailed and so much reasearch gone into these episodes truly amazing!

I absolutely love the new and old structure of the jacket, as far as I could say anything I would consider both pieces as a master piece on their own.

Your channel is a find bc I like to look at fashion things casually but never understood many fashion things or saw many collections and having you make videos to learn about fashion and analyzing collections and how they're made and all the fashion history that goes into it is really amazing

At 15:27, I can't quite tell but there looks to be a snake around the circumference of the bust piece with its tail in its mouth, which is a reference to the ouroboros: this is also symbolic of the cyclic renewal and is seen in many ancient religious artworks.

Just found your channel and I’m obsessed, thank you for the incredible content🙌

The Bar Suit is literally my favorite piece of all time 😭 just something about it

I saw this video a few days ago on Patreon and haven’t stopped thinking about it. I left a long comment there . You’ve done another great job with this video.

as a fashion and astrology lover, i loved this video and your explanations !! soooo well made 💕

I can’t wait to hear your breakdown of “a horror folk tale” I hope you do a video on this I know it’s quite long, I’ve been watching in parts

Grateful to the algorithm for finding you. Really love the passion, concise yet detailed research, and humor of your videos. Thank you!!

Guy! I am obsessed with your videos and I JUST discovered your channel. Your videos are an art and I am binging all of them. Thank you !! Xoxo

This was AWESOME. Can't understand Haute Le Mode's despise of Maria Grazzia anymore😂

*WHOLE ASS LOBSTER TRIGGERS JORDAN PETERSON STANS*

Thank you for these analysis cause I am a dumbo who likes fashion concepts but doesnt understand a thing

i jumped from one of your older videos to this and man you look handsome af with the longer hair...

OK, so when is the Bliss Foster documentary coming out? I imagine a bookish kid locked up in an atelier somewhere where he survived on a diet of Alta MODA and Adderall. Love this guy, his references are mind-blowing!

It would be amazing if you would make a video about the dior cruise 2021! My dad is from puglia and the couple people that i saw talking about the show completly misunderstood/ didn‘t try to understand the culture from this region. Baci from switzerland ❤️

I love your channel !

I missed beint able to watch tour vids 4 times before anr after you post them

Videos really are getting better and better !

I loved this collection so I’m really excited to watch how you break it down and give it more context

I really loved this video!!! Made me super interested in Dior's history

Stumbled onto ur channel a few days ago. I have been really enjoying all ur videos

AMAZING video

Love your hair, Bliss! (Also, I love your content ❤️)

I’m so glad you picked this show to review 👏👏👏

hey, thanks for making videos! found your channel through your video about anti-fashion and all i can say this is the type of content that i've always wanted but never knew where to find imma go binge all of your vids rn haha

Thank you for this wow wow wow

Interesting. Thank you!💙

omg I never knew about this collection but I use this exact deck I got it from my grandma

Nice, and I love your house, and you have a great smile, . thanks, . I absolutely loved this short film, and the music is sublime.

This is amazing! Thank you! I will say reversed tarot cards don’t always mean the opposite, it just means something different. Also not everyone reads upright/reversed

i love tarot cards...now i understand dior's latest ad campaigns so thanks

Amazing!!!!!

This was pretty good. You got the tarot meanings down pretty well for a non-practitioner.

Also, thank you for the work you put into your videos, they're awesome!

I think that the Bar jacket of the 1947 collection, and the entire New Look, being defined as anti feminist is the furthest thing from the truth. Dior created his vision of a woman, which was in part based on the women around him, (like his sister, as you said) and his goal was to make a woman poweful out of her femininity, just as Chanel made a woman powerful out of non conformist garçonne shape. The cut of the Bar jacket that Ciuri offered here is once again amazing, and she is really good at reintroducing the classic Dior pieces in almost all of her collections at the house. I don't think you can compare the New Look Bar with Ciuri's masculine Bar as opposits regarding feminism, but rather as an evolution of it, and the different ways that Dior represents that cause, in part also because, in my opinion, Dior is the leading fashion house in feminism, representing so many facets of ways that garment empower woman, and their styles. Ciuri keeps introducing, in the same way as Dior did, faces of who a woman can be.

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Never supported anyone on Patreon before. I felt my very smooth brain perhaps gain a single fashionable ripple throughout today's binge... Thanks. Where do you get such an all-encompassing pool of knowledge? Do you just know where to look or is this after hella very specific research? Looking into fashion school at the moment and I would love to appear 1/10th as knowledgeable as you one day.

Could you do a video about the current makeup artists that are on top in the fashion industry atm?

Do a closet tour bliss!

This might make me interested in fashion. Thanks.

Can you make a video on how and where designers get inspections. And what art practice really means

Please explain to me the place of bohemian( Romani-aesthetic ) and eco-friendly fashion trends in the world of fashion! Thank you 💚🌱

i was kind of disappointed they did not put the names of the actors in the description. maybe it was done in order to preserve the mysterious aura of the story but still.

Curiously I just saw a video about how the star sign of cancer was usually represented by the lobster, instead of the more modern version the crab. The moon rules the sign of cancer - That’s why in the rider tarot or marseille in the moon card it appears a lobster. In some more exoteric, the egyptian scarab. Soooo cancer ladies I would totally buy that dress hehe

love the gary graham shirt. are you watching the current season of making the cut? gary graham is a contestant.

Sir... I would like to inform you that you are AMAZING keep going with the videos you're doing so great

I would love to hear your thoughts on the Louis Vuitton Seoul show featuring BTS

Hi! I’d like to offer my interpretation of reversed card meaning. They act as a question. What is hindering you from achieving *whatever upright position of that tarot card’s meaning* However, that’s my take on it and as someone has already mentioned, tarot is a tool for us to take a glimpse into our subconscious

Hey I’m early!!

Hi Bliss, I specifically came to this video because I need to ask this Did you own a nintendo ds with the game 'style savvy' (in other countries known as 'style boutique')? I loved that game and recently discovered your channel so it made me wonder :)

I read Tarot and so many different cards and items, I simply think: there is no magic in Tarot. If there is magic, it’s the “reading” step. You could pretty much “read” anything else and get the “answer”. But even the “reading” step is something most people could actually do. The reason why it seems magical is basically, hum, I guess, like, “math is hard”. Or, to say, to read Tarot or any type of oracle, the core is to think “it’s correct to think that this means that”. Yes, just simple as this. If you saw a death and you think “this means, hum, death.” Then it means, death. How others symbolize this or that doesn’t matter at all when it’s you being the reader. (Of course not in this case when you are watching a video by Dior because the reading has been made... or it’s still all for you to decide what does everything mean but it will become a whole Tarot course so I am gonna stop here.) And this is what happened during the “improving of intuition”, which, to me, equals “being comfortable and confident about what do I think it means” no matter I saw a death and I think it means birth or rebirth or “ *nothing, end of the conversation* “ (tbh death is pretty much the same with *end* so I personally take death as a sign of *Tarot don’t want to talk anymore* in some context). In this case, reading Tarot is a journey to the readers themselves because they (are going through a path towards) totally accept their “nonsense”: I love and stand for myself even if I am talking (what people *and precious or “a part of” me* could identify as) nonsense, further, I create sense. Pretty much what Rebecca had done. Anyway, divination is always “about” things you haven’t known or haven’t noticed, so if it makes no sense, it makes pretty much sense. Otherwise you would have known it by thinking in your head, or you have known it and got shocked and accepted it. In the other hand, does divination really reveal things we have not known, like prediction, forecast, or gathering someone else’s secret thoughts? Hum, it could do it, as well as can not at all. This depends on your opinion of “what is this world”. Generally it could, but I personally decided to shift to it “can’t” I am gonna use it in other usages, and this actually made life feels easier for me.

i love you tremendously

You don't even know your star sign? You blessed man, I envy you

I actually got to see some of the earlier tarot pieces by Maria Grazia Chiuri at a temporary Dior exhibit a few years back-- they were stunning then and the addition of a whole tarot collection is amazing. Also, as someone who's trans/non-binary I'm super psyched that the Dior brand is exploring gender in such an upfront way. Making out with my clone still... isn't on the table though lol. A symbol of ultimate self-acceptance, I guess?

I don't like the new bar suit because its just like any suit on the market. It also encourages women to hide their femininity (for me at least). What I liked about the original bar suit was that it looked pretty, practical, and wasn't afraid of what it was.

15.39 DEADDD

i think that at the end she becomes the world card

Next paycheck I’m renewing my pateron u have my word. I wish I could insert a gif after dat sentence😂😂

Bliss, how do you usually find shownotes?

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no, the deck used in the collection film 8:16 is the cheapest mass market reproduction of the deck available (The Golden Tarot by Mary Packard) artificially aged to make it look less cheap (seriously, is like 20 usd, and in the current Tarot World those are pennies. Even the reproduction used in one of the original ads for Chanel "Chance" is better ). however the videos filmed at the museum where MG and the curator are talking about it are the actual cards 8:13. the death card is associated with snakes but not in an extremely obvious way but the death on th Visconti-Sforza doesn't have a snake, the thing in its hand is a bow. and finally the red animal in the moon card is not a lobster, is a crayfish/the crab meant to represent the sign of Cancer

i never clicked so fast lol

reversed cards aren’t always the opposite of the right side up. i think of it more as the other side of the same coin.

1:12 can we take a second to think about what's goin on on the right hand side ?

Bliss...you seem to be doing well and I'm impressed! Great subjects with intelligencia.... How about the oversized trend in opposition to the "sustainable" movement? The runways are littered with extra yardage in nearly every house? WTF is up? MGC said, and I quote loosely, "I want Dior to have no voice, just blend in closetwise" Really? Really? CD would dissolve at her "ideas" ! Oops, two subjects one thought. Sorry.

what about if im the weird who loves subway D:

When this guy gunna shave his head again I miss listening to fashion idubzzz

omg jojo reference!!!!

As a trans woman who's often felt like transitioning is shameful due to how masculinity is socially much more respectable than femininity, I generally dislike it when more masculine traits are used to make us seem more powerful as it just plays into those same patriarchal values.

Ooh is there one with a knife on it??? hahah

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What does corpuscular mean lol

Just because it's a comment that will die on the Internet my little good luck charm is a fake gold pog slammer that I lost in my childhood home at 7 or 8 that I found as we were moving when I was 15. I keep it stuffed in one of those uselessly small pockets in my wallet.

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I think Maria is playing with some pretty outdated and simplistic tropes here when it comes to feminism and gender identity. I dislike the whole idea that to "take back her power" she has to give up traditional symbols of femininity. It still plays towards the misogynistic view that the feminine (and by extension, traditionally feminine qualities) are weak and powerful women are anti-feminine. That the only ways to gain power in a patriarchal society is to be more masculine. It's also giving me major "not like the other girls" vibe. It doesn't challenge the patriarchy or its symbols but reaffirms its power and legitimacy at the expense of other women who don't want or cannot be "masculine". I think what also hinders this is there is no exploration of the idea that gender is a spectrum. It cuts back and forth between one stereotype of a girly girl to another stereotype of a tom boy. Both tired and cliche at this point and lacks any kind of further insight, nuance, or originality.

...but the clothes.... who would wear them - and not look period, stuffy, or just ugly?

REBECCA IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK