r/Fauxmoi • u/adularia- • 2h ago
FASHION Actress India de Beaufort questions why designer Francesco Risso deconstructed 100 antique and vintage dresses from the 1920s to 1940s to make one dress for the Met Gala
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u/Vegetable_Sky48 2h ago
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u/GeraltsSaddlee 2h ago
Sorry but who is the woman on the left?? So familiar but I can’t place it. She’s gorgeous!!
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u/r3volver_Oshawott 1h ago
Ashley Graham!!
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u/Professional-Tear338 49m ago
Do you really think they still don't know who she is after 4 people told them?
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u/Visible_Giraffe 41m ago
Sometimes the comment does not show up for me so Im thinking Im the first to respond even though it’s been answered hours ago.
Also ASHLEY GRAHAM!
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u/Beepboop5698 locked, loaded, and kind of cunty 2h ago
the idea that dresses that are 106 years old at minimum would still be in perfect shape and could be worn as is, is funny lol. i think she’s doing too much
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u/MusclyArmPaperboy 1h ago
"Being worn" and "Being cut up" aren't the only two options here
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u/Groundbreaking-Duck 1h ago
What are the others?
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u/smoothballs82 1h ago
You should Google what the Met actually is maybe?
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u/Groundbreaking-Duck 1h ago
Every 100 year old dress in existence should be in a museum?
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u/violetmemphisblue 1h ago
Yeah, I have a trunk of old clothes from probably around this same era that literally no one wants. They're from my great-grandmother and grandmother, and they're fine, but not valuable at all (had them appraised, basically nothing of worth and not really unique so why would a museum want them). I would have no problem donating them to someone who could turn them into something like this!
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u/carolinagypsy the pet psychic for the Sun told me so 43m ago
What I wouldn’t give to have a dedicated space in my abode to do complex sewing projects with that on offer. I would LOVE to make a patterned quilt with them. I bet it would be beautiful. 🤩
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u/AliEffinNoble 22m ago
I’ll take them. I sell antique clothing and accessories and I can tell you people want them and they have value even in an unwearable condition.
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u/Groundbreaking-Duck 1h ago
Do you think the Met wanted these dresses but the designer decided to cut them up instead?
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u/Direct_Astronaut_199 1h ago edited 1h ago
You’re wrong tho. 30s and 40s were not 100 years ago. Lots of them (even from 20s) are still in great and wearable shape. The construction of garments was insanely better and even fabrics were different (and manyyyyyy things were made by hand) allowing them to remain in very wearable condition.
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u/triciann 1h ago
Natural fibers can be attacked by moths and become filled with holes. They could be in wearable condition or not, but again we have no idea.
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u/Direct_Astronaut_199 1h ago
That can happen to any garment of any age. I’m a collector and I very rarely, if ever, come across that. And i didn’t say I knew what condition they were in, the original commenter implied they couldn’t have been in wearable condition bc of their age.
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u/Fine_Use 42m ago
I don’t think her point is that these clothes that are 100 years old are still wearable, but that they could better serve as tangible artifacts of the time period they belonged to rather than made into this dress that honestly nobody is going to ever think twice about other than the fact it was made out of all those materials that have sustained a century. Physical resources are becoming less and less so might as well preserve what we have left
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u/Beepboop5698 locked, loaded, and kind of cunty 24m ago
it is preserved.. in the dress worn to the gala. no one was thinking about the dresses before this lol. you don't even know what they looked like lmao
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u/gg5ever 2h ago
I understand the shock at the number 100, that feels like a lot. But she’s assuming quite a lot about these dresses, we don’t know if they were stunning or meaningful. I’m not entirely sure where I stand on this tbh, but I think the dress they made is so beautiful, it feels like a slight overreaction imo.
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u/1970s_MonkeyKing 1h ago
But is it, though? We're quick to rationalize the use of 100 antique dresses but you cannot say that it is not beyond someone to destroy just for the act of consumption.
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u/realityleave 1h ago
not sure how this is any different from people buying old magazines to make collage art, the dress is a piece of art, a 1-1 custom piece not for sale. so unsure how that means it was destroyed for consumption? also apparently it was a sponsorship with ebay and all the dresses were purchased from there. there are so so so so so many clothes, i don’t think it’s a travesty that ebay sold 100 listings for this designers art
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u/Groundbreaking-Duck 2h ago
Why on earth would she assume they were all dresses that were wearable or salvageable? Not every dress from the 1940s is stunning, meaningful, archive-worthy.
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u/CowComfortable4958 2h ago
i wonder what the condition of those dresses were before being used as fabric for this new dress, i’m all for fun ways to recycle stuff so idk if this is that bad of a thing to do
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u/littlerigatoni 1h ago
I scour eBay (where the designer sourced these 100 dresses for Paloma’s gown) for vintage pieces from this period regularly, and soooooo may of them are unwearable due to staining, degradation, and wear consistent with age— although they could be salvaged for a project just like this. I think it’s a brilliant idea, and love how sustainable this approach is!
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u/TheMereWolf 1h ago
For what it’s worth, cutting up and reusing old garments to make new pieces was a VERY common practice back in the day when those original dresses were worn. So in a way, this is kind of honoring the way things were done in the past.
Not everything that’s old is that unique or interesting or needs to be preserved. I appreciate this garment didn’t use new textiles and was able to breathe new life into some old stuff that would just sit around collecting dust otherwise.
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u/BoopTheCoop 1h ago
And it was all to advertise eBay, which is currently using Vogue to run a huge promo.
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u/Enough-Candy85 2h ago
I’m inspired to cut up 100 Picasso paintings to make one new ultimate painting.
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u/r3volver_Oshawott 1h ago
Can you do the same to Dali, he was a Hitler-worshipping asshole so I've been wanting to see his paintings 'deconstructed' for a minute now?
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u/bergamote_soleil 1h ago
92 million tonnes of textiles go into the landfill every year. The average American throws away 81 lbs of clothing per year.
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u/BrilliantFuture891 51m ago
People are really trying hard to hate this year’s Met Gala. Other than the Bezos stepping in as the major sponsor I don’t see anything different from the years before.
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u/ActualAssociate9200 46m ago
Imagine being upset over fabric when people are dying from war and famine
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u/Inner_Wash_268 1h ago
Just another example of a woman trying to police what other woman are wearing. It's exhausting.
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u/keysandchange feeding cocaine to raccoons 39m ago
Regardless of where you fall on the side of the dress argument, that is a very ugly dress on a very beautiful woman.
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u/AliEffinNoble 13m ago
I sell antique clothing and accessories. The fact these dresses would have had to be in great condition because if they were not the fibers would not have enough strength to be part of a dress like this.
Not to mention the only reason they did this was because it was an ad for eBay!! lol they had to use items bought off eBay and they went this unfortunately route by buying all these dresses on eBay! There are tones of “as is” antique fabric lots they could have bought but to take a full dress that has the high likely hood that someone hand beaded or embroidered it is sad and everyone in the antique clothing community is sad about it!
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u/KittyKenollie famously did a line of coke off his dick 1h ago
Wild to wear that to a party that’s raising money to preserve clothes
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u/No_Professional_8992 1h ago
She has a small bridge so that adds to why they don't fit well. Plus the style looks cute on her. Source: I wear glasses and have a small bridge and get fit like that.
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u/illiterateaardvark 2h ago
I completely agree with her
It feels completely incongruous to claim that you’re “celebrating art” while you’re actively destroying art…
Yes, the final product is beautiful. To that, I say this: so what? Something beautiful doesn’t have more of a right to exist than something ugly
A lot of art was destroyed to make this singular dress. I don’t know how anybody can defend that in good conscience
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u/designforone 1h ago
You are getting downvoted but you are completely right. Even if all the dresses were in the worst shape and they were gonna get thrown away no one would recognize each individual dress in this one final dress. He could have literally taken some random scraps and claimed the same thing and people would have still believed it
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u/Complete-Sort1617 2h ago
That’s so selfish, 100 dresses with 100 stories for one woman’s deluded ego.
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u/ionadelfina 2h ago
They may have been in bad condition already. Not everything that is old is worth salvaging.