Amour Fou & Art, August 26, 2020
Bernadette Banner studied at NYU in Tisch Drama's Production & Design Studio. She was fascinated by historical clothing and studied the history of dress and through practical experimentation and reconstruction. She then worked as a design assistant on Broadway and decided to dedicate herself exclusively to historical tailoring.
She researched tirelessly to find out how to implement historical dress techniques to lead a more sustainable lifestyle. She then posted the results on YouTube and the videos quickly became popular. The advertising opportunities on Youtube enabled Bernadette Banner to become self-employed with Youtube and today she can live out her dream of reconstructing historical clothing. At the time of the interview she had 827.000 subscribers.
Amour Fou & Art: Have you wanted to sew historical clothes since you were a child? Can you remember key moments or magic moments?
Bernadette Banner: I first began sewing original practice (using historical methods) in my final year at university; this involved essentially unlearning all previous knowledge of modern sewing, as many of the techniques and objectives are different, if not entirely opposite: for example, modern sewing tends to use hand sewing as a means of attaching finishing bits that can’t be done by machine and therefore tend to be more delicate by nature, whereas in pre-machine original practice methods, the hand sewing itself must have all the strength of a machine stitch.
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