I'm blown away by this documentary. When I hear "fashion" I think of huge brands, marketing, big money and fast fashion: I was so happy to see none of this in here. This is a high educative movie about clothes making, an item we all use on a daily basis, with no exceptions whatsoever. It goes through the history of immigrants, the history of certain neighbors and ultimately through the history of NYC itself. It features experts of the industry and professors, it shows how places that made the history look nowadays and what I personally enjoyed the most was to see small at-home designers interviewed: these are creating a social movement that wants to rediscover the slow, tailored, personalized and sustainable manufacture of clothing. Fifty minutes that truly flew by, thanks to a masterwork in structuring and editing: the division in 6 parts makes it very easy to follow, the music is very well curated, and honestly, for being a documentary, there's not one minute that is even slightly boring. I actually wish to see a part 2 that goes even more in depth in the topic. Congratulations Ariel, you did an absolutely amazing work!
Mary Jane! thank you so much for the wonderful words. I'm so happy this documentary blew you away and that 50 minutes flew by!! That's amazing to hear. And yea I want to make a part 2, 3, and 4 in London, Paris, and Milan respectively. Perhaps I'll make that happen one day and you can help me with italian translation :D
Thank you for recommending this video, Mary Jane! This a very interesting documentary, that I really enjoyed watching. Like you said: a masterwork in structuring and editing.
I grew up in Greenwich Village in the late 60’s and the 70’s and I loved how informative it was. As a young girl I would go to the different fashion houses and see the designers to buy for a boutique . It was so exciting. Also my daughter is in the documentary. She is the beauty with the curly hair.
We really enjoyed your fashion documentary. I find it fascinating to observe the changes that have taken place in NYC over the last century, especially in the garment industry and district. This is a well made, informative doco, equal to, if not better than those you would find on big networks. Good job Ariel.
This reminds me of my sweet grandmother who was a seamstress and worked for a factory in The Bronx. She had an old Singer sewing machine at home also. I wish I had paid more attention to her sewing. Miss her so much.
I loved this! I also loved the nod to Mood. I was obsessed with that show, still adore Tim Gunn. Back in the late 70s/early 80s I lived around the corner from FIT. Every day we'd find large scraps just tossed on the street--piles of fur and fabric. It was an interesting time.
Thank you for this very nice and professionally-made documentary, Ariel! The interviews were really interesting and you did a great job editing. Like Mary Jane said: the fifty minutes truly flew by.
thank you for this video ariel. superbly done and so informative with great stock footage and music as well. love it all!!!! keep up the good work. always looking forward to your uploads. thanks.
Thank you so much Theo! I'm so happy you enjoyed this documentary and the combination of stock footage with music. that's awesome to hear!! More to come!
Hey, we watched this while eating dinner over the past couple of nights and wanted to say great job! Good choices on the history presented, excellent guests, and engaging visual variety in both the content and the edit. Fantastic work!!
Great stuff. Love the migrant take initially. Reminded me of my grandfather's immigration story when he arrived in Montreal from Greece. He started working in the fur coat industry.
thank you so much! glad to hear your grandfather was also in the garment trade, without immigrants America and Canada wouldn't have large garment industries
@@UrbanistExploringCities the garment industry allowed him to make enough money to start a series of restaurants. As a greek immigrant in Montreal, he was living in the Jewish area of town allowing him to learn how to cut smoked meat, similar to pastrami. He's definitely on of my idols and always pushing me to follow my passions.
Great documentary. I worked for akademic! I was just a receptionist but I loved that area I would walk by the Empire State Building to get to work and looking back that's all you saw was designing company's everywhere.👖👗👜🛍👕...
I loved the documentary the only thing as a clothing and footwear designer I wish you added was some factories there are a lot of designers in NYC that would love to produce close to home and we would give business to NYC factories instead of LA or oversees
Interesting topic. Thanks. New York at first was import knockoff capital of fashion, then later came into its own. Became a powerhouse due to street informal fashion. Lifestyle fashion. It broke away from European influences. Now it’s world fashion that dominates.
Unfortunately, Reganomics dam near whiped out the garment industry! But Bidenomics needs to bring it back, as it will with the home/housewares industry, furniture industry, vacuum cleaner manufacturing, along with electronics, except ones made in Japan and/or Europe, that which are also inferior to Chineese and Vietnameese made products!
I strongly disagree with this. Clothing and fashion are tools humans use to protect themselves from the environment and to embody their beliefs, making them crucial aspects of socialization, culture, and identity. If you do not need clothes to exist, then I challenge you to two things. First, go out into nature and live without clothing. If you are able to survive that, then I challenge you to re-enter society and live without clothing. If you do not die from the elements without the protection of clothing, you will die certainly die from the consequences of being a social outcast.
@@channelhowardyes we need to dress, for sure, but no there s no need to spend so much money in clothes (while at the same time, half o the world is starving): this is why I said the fashion industry is an emptiness religion with depressive models and hysteric girls buying anything and everything. But I admit your opinion, you can think so
@@olivierolivier6080 When considering fashion as a commodity and how it has been fetishized and used to perpetuate the worst aspects of desire (such as envy and competitive consumption, which create and justify inequality), I agree with your observations. However, to me this sounds more like a critique of capitalism than a critique of fashion. Why do we spend any amount of money on anything that isn't related to our immediate survival if there are so many people starving in the world? It's because profits are more important than people in global capitalist culture, and there are no viable alternatives to this system as an individual actor. Fashion is an easy scapegoat for why the world is screwed up because it represents a form of consumption that is seen as superficial - and it is important to note that this association with superficiality is largely the result of gendered Western ideas of fashion as feminine, and therefore somehow lesser-than. Evidence of this association at work is in your comment above, where you say that fashion is made up of "hysteric girls buying anything and everything." In societies where practically all of our material culture has become commodified, how does one commodity become more superficial than another? I would say it is through gendered, racialized, and other normalized discriminatory ways of thinking that shift blame away from capitalism itself and onto certain forms of consumerism that less privileged populations are inculcated into participating in. Going back to your original comment, it is possible to be both interesting and well-dressed, these things are not mutually exclusive. It is through gendered cultural associations that instill people with the idea that the consumption of fashion represents something effeminate, and therefore negative and wasteful, that fashion receives an unduly bad reputation. This is super interesting to me, so thank you for responding. I am not under the impression that everything I am saying is right and there is no other way to look at things, so I'd love to hear more of your thoughts. I simply want to be critical of what I witness in your comments.
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Continue the fashion adventure by watching this walking tour of the Garment District: ruclips.net/video/WuQvKRP-Gms/видео.html
Near the lovely Port authority lol
I'm blown away by this documentary. When I hear "fashion" I think of huge brands, marketing, big money and fast fashion: I was so happy to see none of this in here. This is a high educative movie about clothes making, an item we all use on a daily basis, with no exceptions whatsoever. It goes through the history of immigrants, the history of certain neighbors and ultimately through the history of NYC itself. It features experts of the industry and professors, it shows how places that made the history look nowadays and what I personally enjoyed the most was to see small at-home designers interviewed: these are creating a social movement that wants to rediscover the slow, tailored, personalized and sustainable manufacture of clothing.
Fifty minutes that truly flew by, thanks to a masterwork in structuring and editing: the division in 6 parts makes it very easy to follow, the music is very well curated, and honestly, for being a documentary, there's not one minute that is even slightly boring. I actually wish to see a part 2 that goes even more in depth in the topic. Congratulations Ariel, you did an absolutely amazing work!
Mary Jane! thank you so much for the wonderful words. I'm so happy this documentary blew you away and that 50 minutes flew by!! That's amazing to hear. And yea I want to make a part 2, 3, and 4 in London, Paris, and Milan respectively. Perhaps I'll make that happen one day and you can help me with italian translation :D
Thank you for recommending this video, Mary Jane! This a very interesting documentary, that I really enjoyed watching. Like you said: a masterwork in structuring and editing.
@@aukej6024 thanks so much for watching!!
Urbanist: History of Cities Oh that’s awesome! And sure I’ll help you 😊
Thank you for eloquently explaining exactly how I feel about this!
I grew up in Greenwich Village in the late 60’s and the 70’s and I loved how informative it was. As a young girl I would go to the different fashion houses and see the designers to buy for a boutique . It was so exciting. Also my daughter is in the documentary. She is the beauty with the curly hair.
This doc should have a million views by now. Great job. Excellent interviews. Very underrated.
Thank you so very much!!
This is an excellent documentary that both entertains and educates.
thank you Donald! I'm so happy you enjoyed it and that it taught you something new!
We really enjoyed your fashion documentary. I find it fascinating to observe the changes that have taken place in NYC over the last century, especially in the garment industry and district. This is a well made, informative doco, equal to, if not better than those you would find on big networks. Good job Ariel.
that means so much! I'm glad you think the quality of the doc matches those you find on big networks :D that's awesome to hear!
This reminds me of my sweet grandmother who was a seamstress and worked for a factory in The Bronx. She had an old Singer sewing machine at home also. I wish I had paid more attention to her sewing. Miss her so much.
I loved this! I also loved the nod to Mood. I was obsessed with that show, still adore Tim Gunn. Back in the late 70s/early 80s I lived around the corner from FIT. Every day we'd find large scraps just tossed on the street--piles of fur and fabric. It was an interesting time.
Haha yes I saw your short and commented that you should do a full doc on this and I searched for one and here you did one lmao nice
haha that's awesome you found it!! yea many people who see my shorts don't realize I have longer videos lol
Thank you! Amazing documentary! Learned a lot! 💜
Wow I appreciate you going back to see this!!
Thank you for this very nice and professionally-made documentary, Ariel! The interviews were really interesting and you did a great job editing. Like Mary Jane said: the fifty minutes truly flew by.
I really appreciate you watching per Mary Jane's recommendation and glad you think its a well made documentary!
thank you for this video ariel. superbly done and so informative with great stock footage and music as well. love it all!!!! keep up the good work. always looking forward to your uploads. thanks.
Thank you so much Theo! I'm so happy you enjoyed this documentary and the combination of stock footage with music. that's awesome to hear!! More to come!
This was very informative and impressive, Ariel
I’m so happy you enjoyed it!! Thanks for watching 🙏
Your channel is going to be so big soon. Your stuff is so high quality!
I’m so glad you enjoy my videos Timber! Thanks so much for watching this documentary 🙌
A stunning and completely unexpected documentary
Hey, we watched this while eating dinner over the past couple of nights and wanted to say great job! Good choices on the history presented, excellent guests, and engaging visual variety in both the content and the edit. Fantastic work!!
Hey!! I really appreciate both of you watching this!! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🙌
True that every garment has a story,I have many I can tell.Thank you,I love this!
My pleasure! thanks so much for watching!!
Very well interview, the edition and all people interviewed. New suscriber here!
This was so well done. I learned a lot. Thank you.
Great informative video. Thanks!
Thank you so much for watching!! 🙏
ARIEL ❣ Excellent Point of View, Diversity, Creativity and Informative!! Bravo my friend 👏👏👏
I'm so happy you enjoyed this documentary!!
Did i say I loved this? ..can't wait to see all ..ill catch up before 2021🗽
yes!! I'm so happy you loved this!! Thank you so much for watching :D
I'm a third way thru catching up🧡
Things were so different a few years ago. So many workers in the garment district
Yea :/ I wish American still had a garment industry. We used to make the best clothes
Great stuff. Love the migrant take initially. Reminded me of my grandfather's immigration story when he arrived in Montreal from Greece. He started working in the fur coat industry.
thank you so much! glad to hear your grandfather was also in the garment trade, without immigrants America and Canada wouldn't have large garment industries
@@UrbanistExploringCities the garment industry allowed him to make enough money to start a series of restaurants. As a greek immigrant in Montreal, he was living in the Jewish area of town allowing him to learn how to cut smoked meat, similar to pastrami. He's definitely on of my idols and always pushing me to follow my passions.
You are amazing. Subscribed
Wow great vlog. Greetings from the Netherlands.
thank you so much Gerard!
Great documentary. I worked for akademic! I was just a receptionist but I loved that area I would walk by the Empire State Building to get to work and looking back that's all you saw was designing company's everywhere.👖👗👜🛍👕...
ooh that's so cool you worked in the Garment business area. I'm so happy you enjoyed the documentary!
I just found you on tiktok so happy I subscribed
Great video
I appreciate it!
awesome video!!
I'm so happy you enjoyed it Janice!! :D
Great job.
Thank you Ali! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏
Excellent work!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching :D
Regarding the fire this is how the Ladies Garment Workers union was born and safety reasons for offices too
that's right, it really did change the industry and it could have easily been its own documentary
cool video!
Muy bueno!!!
gracias! lo agradezco :D
1385 Broadway @ Kevin Doyle's RUclips channel brought me here.
Dallas also has a serious international fashion scene.
that's awesome!
I loved the documentary the only thing as a clothing and footwear designer I wish you added was some factories there are a lot of designers in NYC that would love to produce close to home and we would give business to NYC factories instead of LA or oversees
I tired getting a garment factory, but many of them didn’t respond back :/ I’m glad you loved the documentary nonetheless
Interesting topic. Thanks. New York at first was import knockoff capital of fashion, then later came into its own. Became a powerhouse due to street informal fashion. Lifestyle fashion. It broke away from European influences. Now it’s world fashion that dominates.
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black gaf on your mic would reduce flair
it's the new style called Indie Doc Chic, didn't you hear? 😝
Poor workers. Tragic.
Unfortunately, Reganomics dam near whiped out the garment industry! But Bidenomics needs to bring it back, as it will with the home/housewares industry, furniture industry, vacuum cleaner manufacturing, along with electronics, except ones made in Japan and/or Europe, that which are also inferior to Chineese and Vietnameese made products!
english sound bad, not suitable for a documentary.
fashion, a way to express your emptiness, you don't need clothes to exist and i prefer interesting persons than well dressed persons
I strongly disagree with this. Clothing and fashion are tools humans use to protect themselves from the environment and to embody their beliefs, making them crucial aspects of socialization, culture, and identity. If you do not need clothes to exist, then I challenge you to two things. First, go out into nature and live without clothing. If you are able to survive that, then I challenge you to re-enter society and live without clothing. If you do not die from the elements without the protection of clothing, you will die certainly die from the consequences of being a social outcast.
@@channelhowardyes we need to dress, for sure, but no there s no need to spend so much money in clothes (while at the same time, half o the world is starving): this is why I said the fashion industry is an emptiness religion with depressive models and hysteric girls buying anything and everything. But I admit your opinion, you can think so
@@olivierolivier6080 When considering fashion as a commodity and how it has been fetishized and used to perpetuate the worst aspects of desire (such as envy and competitive consumption, which create and justify inequality), I agree with your observations. However, to me this sounds more like a critique of capitalism than a critique of fashion. Why do we spend any amount of money on anything that isn't related to our immediate survival if there are so many people starving in the world? It's because profits are more important than people in global capitalist culture, and there are no viable alternatives to this system as an individual actor. Fashion is an easy scapegoat for why the world is screwed up because it represents a form of consumption that is seen as superficial - and it is important to note that this association with superficiality is largely the result of gendered Western ideas of fashion as feminine, and therefore somehow lesser-than. Evidence of this association at work is in your comment above, where you say that fashion is made up of "hysteric girls buying anything and everything." In societies where practically all of our material culture has become commodified, how does one commodity become more superficial than another? I would say it is through gendered, racialized, and other normalized discriminatory ways of thinking that shift blame away from capitalism itself and onto certain forms of consumerism that less privileged populations are inculcated into participating in. Going back to your original comment, it is possible to be both interesting and well-dressed, these things are not mutually exclusive. It is through gendered cultural associations that instill people with the idea that the consumption of fashion represents something effeminate, and therefore negative and wasteful, that fashion receives an unduly bad reputation.
This is super interesting to me, so thank you for responding. I am not under the impression that everything I am saying is right and there is no other way to look at things, so I'd love to hear more of your thoughts. I simply want to be critical of what I witness in your comments.
@@channelhoward thank you for your comment.
London paris milan and dubai are better than new York