Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yow, Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's kick things off.
Speaker 3: Yesterday was the METS Gala. It's party city on LSD,
Speaker 3: and this year the looks were as wild as ever.
Speaker 4: The MET Gala began with a bang from the Brooklyn
Speaker 4: United Marching Band and from there the steps became a
Speaker 4: who is who of.
Speaker 2: Fashion, movies and music.
Speaker 4: The theme is celebrating American fashion and these guests understood
Speaker 4: the assignment. Hosts Billy Eilish and Naomio Osaka stunned in
Speaker 4: their larger than life outfits, and Lil nas X shut
Speaker 4: down the steps with his costume changes.
Speaker 5: We asked, what does it mean to be two working
Speaker 5: class women showing up to the Met?
Speaker 6: And so we decided, if we're.
Speaker 4: Going to do it, Fish Tank Rich, even Mayor Deblasio
Speaker 4: made his first appearance. Red, white, and blue were the
Speaker 4: colors of the night, as was anything sparkly, with the
Speaker 4: exception of Kim Kardah, who came in all black everything.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 3: Man, you know you've killed the game when you can
Speaker 3: step out covered head to toe and everyone still recognizes you. Shit,
Speaker 3: I don't even recognize some of my friends when they
Speaker 3: were wearing a mosque. But Kim Kardashian climbs up the
Speaker 3: stairs looking like a video game character you haven't unlocked yet,
Speaker 3: and we're all like.
Speaker 2: I'd know that shape anywhere. It's Cam, Yeah, it's Cam.
Speaker 2: And there were so.
Speaker 3: Many amazing outfits last night.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Erica Badu came looking like an astronaut at a funeral.
Speaker 3: Dan Levy came as an angry throw pillow. Oh and
Speaker 3: this one was one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart.
Speaker 3: He brought a life sized doll of Frank Ocean. I
Speaker 3: mean that was genius. I didn't even think that. Wait,
Speaker 3: that's not the oh shit, my bad. And this is
Speaker 3: what I love about the Metgala, right, is that it
Speaker 3: brings America together, black, white, Republican democrat, no matter your
Speaker 3: sexual orientation. People switch on their TVs and they all
Speaker 3: say what the fuck are they wearing? And don't get
Speaker 3: me wrong, I love the Metgala. I'm not even trying
Speaker 3: to act like I hate I love the Metgaland because
Speaker 3: it's not about looking good, it's about looking different, you know,
Speaker 3: It's the only party you can show up to in
Speaker 3: a cardboard box with the word butthole written on it,
Speaker 3: and people will be like, oh my god, Yes, I
Speaker 3: need more of that in my life.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: But if you show up in a beautiful tailored tuxedo,
Speaker 3: everyone's like, get that corny shit out of here. Bring
Speaker 3: back that guy in the butthole box, and remember this
Speaker 3: entire event. This entire event is a fundraiser. I saw
Speaker 3: a lot of people talking trash, like, oh what is
Speaker 3: this bullshit? Why are these people doing. It's a fundraiser
Speaker 3: that makes it possible to keep admission into the Metropolitan
Speaker 3: Museum of Art free for residents, and I for one
Speaker 3: thing that's really important, you know, because you can't be
Speaker 3: charging people money to look at art. I mean, have
Speaker 3: you seen art? Arts is weird. It's all like naked
Speaker 3: angel babies and pieces of twisted metal and people looking
Speaker 3: at that stuff going oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, I see, Oh I see.
Speaker 3: I'm not paying for that shit.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 7: Welcome to c P Time, the only show that's for
Speaker 7: the culture. Today, we'll be discussing black contributions to fashion. Normally,
Speaker 7: when we think about black fashion, we think about church hats,
Speaker 7: so big they block the view of Jesus. What we
Speaker 7: think about those soups that Steve Harvey wears that haul
Speaker 7: all the buttons, leave some buttons for the rest of us. Steve,
Speaker 7: they keep them my clothes together with staples. But in actuality,
Speaker 7: the world of fashion has been filled with influential and
Speaker 7: iconic African American designers, like our first trailblazer, Zelda wyn Valdez,
Speaker 7: who was one of the first designers whose clothing accentuated
Speaker 7: women's curves. Before her, women's fashion covered up their figures
Speaker 7: with big ass skirts the size of a carnival cruise ship.
Speaker 7: Women would get lost just bending over to tie their shoes.
Speaker 7: Zelda's curve flooring designs were so popular that Hugh Heffner
Speaker 7: asked her to design the iconic outfit for the Playboy Bunnies.
Speaker 7: I never went to the Playboy Mansion myself because I
Speaker 7: was married, and I also have a severe phobia of rabbits.
Speaker 7: You never know where rabbits are hiding, and if you
Speaker 7: can pull one out of a hat, you can pull
Speaker 7: one out of anywhere. Here's my ass. I don't want
Speaker 7: to be around that. Another black creator of Coulteur is
Speaker 7: Stephen Burrows. He rose to fashion prominence in the early
Speaker 7: seventies during the disco era. I was always confused by disco.
Speaker 7: I couldn't tell who was dancing and who was giving
Speaker 7: me directions. But disco isn't just about the moves, It's
Speaker 7: about the fashion, which Stephen Burrows helped shape. He hung
Speaker 7: out at Studio fifty four and was popular among its
Speaker 7: celebrity regulars. He was the first to design clothes that
Speaker 7: were comfortable on the dance floor, even at three am,
Speaker 7: right when the cocaine hit so hard you thought you
Speaker 7: were the disco ball.
Speaker 1: Cocaine was better in the seventies.
Speaker 7: Burrows also invented lettucing, which is when you make the
Speaker 7: material at the edge of a garment curve and ripple
Speaker 7: like a piece of lettuce. I'll have to take his
Speaker 7: word for it because I've never eaten a piece of lettuce.
Speaker 7: My favorite vegetable is caramel covered popcorn. And finally, our
Speaker 7: last designer brings us to the modern day. Virgil Ablow,
Speaker 7: the first African American artistic director at Louis Vuitton and
Speaker 7: driving force behind this decade streetwear movement. He made high
Speaker 7: end fashion take streetwear seriously you know, fancy logos, T shirts,
Speaker 7: chunky sneakers, hoodies, pretty much anything you're not supposed to
Speaker 7: wear to a funeral unless you and the deceased had beef.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Spencer, Miss Jordans is stepping on your grave. Now,
Speaker 1: don't be fooled by the term streetwear.
Speaker 7: One of a Blow's biggest companies, Off White, sells sweatpants
Speaker 7: for over three hundred dollars, and this luxury undershirt costs
Speaker 7: two hundred. Although I don't know why you would spend
Speaker 7: so much money on a shirt that ain't nobody gonna see.
Speaker 1: You know how much I paid for my underwear? Nothing.
Speaker 7: A six pack of drawers fell off the back of
Speaker 7: a Walmart truck in nineteen eighty seven and I never
Speaker 7: looked back. So the next time you zip your fly
Speaker 7: and you're looking fly, remember the African American fashion trail
Speaker 7: blazers who made you that blazer. Now, if you'd excuse me,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna make my first shirt retail price.
Speaker 1: Ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: This old man has his debts, but that's all the
Speaker 7: time we have for today. I'm Roydwood Junior. This has
Speaker 7: been cpee time. And remember for the culture gave me
Speaker 7: some damn somebody give me a napkin. I'm bleeding on
Speaker 7: my fabric.
Speaker 8: Every great movement begins with an individual act of defiance.
Speaker 8: Moses stood up to the Egyptians. Gandhi stared down the British.
Speaker 8: Morocco met a man in Syracuse, New York, facing the
Speaker 8: mightiest foe of them.
Speaker 6: All Verse seventeen long months, Fred Craig has crusaded daily
Speaker 6: against women's discount clothing chain fashion Bug. It all started
Speaker 6: with these This is what happened to the Fashion Bug
Speaker 6: panties Fred bought for his wife. After only one.
Speaker 1: Wash, they can part. They shredded, So.
Speaker 6: He bawled up his panties and demanded a refund.
Speaker 9: She's like, Eh, those are underwear, you know we can't
Speaker 9: take those back.
Speaker 6: No refund. But Fred had found a nobler purpose trashing
Speaker 6: Fashion Bug. For over a year and a half, he's
Speaker 6: spent each day outside the mall spreading his message to
Speaker 6: women shoppers. Well, I try to return something there one
Speaker 6: day and they treated me like dirrek.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because of your behavior, not because the Fashion Bug's clothes.
Speaker 2: Don't be dissing them. If you don't like it, don't
Speaker 2: buy it.
Speaker 6: Encouraged by his supporters, Fred forges ahead single mindedly, yet
Speaker 6: somehow he finds time to paint, create helpful websites, and
Speaker 6: take relaxing drives. Fred's mother stands firmly behind him. How
Speaker 6: proud are you proud?
Speaker 10: He is a complete idiot for doing What would you prefer.
Speaker 6: Fred do with his time work? Your son has a website?
Speaker 2: Why in the world would he have that?
Speaker 6: For other victims of fashion Bug. The name of the
Speaker 6: website is www dot fashion bugsocks dot com or not?
Speaker 10: What kind of language is that? Jeez Crown.
Speaker 6: To evaluate Fred's claims, the Daily Show laboratories conducted a
Speaker 6: battery of tests to simulate a typical day for a
Speaker 6: pair of panties. Our conclusion, these panties needed to go
Speaker 6: back to the store. Oh hi, yeah, I want to
Speaker 6: return these panties which I bought and they're not working.
Speaker 2: Happening.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, Wow, that's mud. After only forty five seconds,
Speaker 6: Fashion Bug gave The Daily Show a store credit. But
Speaker 6: for Fred, the battle continues with the support of his family.
Speaker 8: This is.
Speaker 10: I'm dreading Thanksgiving. That was my favorite holiday. But we're
Speaker 10: all getting together down My daughters also, and I dread
Speaker 10: your fred me in there, because the whole thing of
Speaker 10: being thankful is the idiots gonna say be.
Speaker 2: Talking about fashion about the whole time.
Speaker 10: Fashion bug, fashion bug, fashion bug, fashion bug. That's all
Speaker 10: he thinks about when he goes.
Speaker 2: To bed, That's what he sleeps about.
Speaker 10: Money. Can I do the next day for fashion bug? Jeu?
Speaker 6: Is he nuts?
Speaker 10: Really not?
Speaker 6: Is he crazy?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: Is he a lunatic? No? So you love your.
Speaker 10: Son, yes, but I don't want to be associated with him.
Speaker 1: That's part one.
Speaker 9: Morocca.
Speaker 7: That that's an excellent part.
Speaker 8: Let me ask you this note the time that you
Speaker 8: spent in the field, can you now tell men what
Speaker 8: to look for in a good pair of panties?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, John, Here is the much celebrated song lovely to
Speaker 6: look at, but not at all durable? No, no, So
Speaker 6: now take a look at these, if you would, a
Speaker 6: pair of the much ballyhood edible panties. Okay, attractive, yes,
Speaker 6: but look very closely at the sell by date. Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm sure these panties were tasty in March nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 8: Well, which panties do you recommend?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Well, the oldies, but the goodies, Big old Granny panties.
Speaker 8: Well, do you have an example of that to show us.
Speaker 3: Or is there?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: Well sure here, oh okay, yeah, you know, it's just
Speaker 8: very easy, yes it Yes, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 2: I can I know, I understand.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're underneath very gay.
Speaker 8: We rock everybody.
Speaker 3: Not everything is going swimmingly in Trump Land. As you
Speaker 3: know by now, Nordstrom stopped selling Ivanka's product line and
Speaker 3: uh and after Trump attacked them online. This is true,
Speaker 3: Nordstrom stock shot up four percent.
Speaker 2: It went up by four percent.
Speaker 9: It's the new Trump effects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone, those stuffs are gonna go down right now.
Speaker 2: Every company in the country.
Speaker 3: Gonna start claiming to stop selling Ivanka products even if
Speaker 3: they don't have them.
Speaker 2: That's like the new thing.
Speaker 3: You go against Trump, and then people like people will
Speaker 3: be in courts and it's just like the lawyers like,
Speaker 3: I know, my client killed four people, but he stopped
Speaker 3: selling Ivanka products, so could he have a lighter sentence.
Speaker 3: They'd be like, all right, it's approved, it's approbed. So
Speaker 3: that was all yesterday. That was all yesterday. Then this morning,
Speaker 3: Trump sends out the most overworked woman in America and
Speaker 3: truth Scarecrow, Kelly and Conway to defend Ivanka's brand on TV.
Speaker 2: Do you asked about Evanka? I visited with her yesterday.
Speaker 8: You know, this is a very successful business woman.
Speaker 5: To buy Ivanka stuff is what I tell I'm gonna
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go get some on myself today.
Speaker 2: This is just it's a wonderful line. I own some
Speaker 2: of it. I fully, I'm gonna just give it. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give a free commercial. Here go buy it today, everybody.
Speaker 2: You can find it online.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm going to give a free commercial.
Speaker 9: Go by it.
Speaker 3: I love how in less than three weeks we've gone
Speaker 3: from the presidency and Trump businesses are totally separate.
Speaker 2: To come on.
Speaker 3: Down to the White House and bye bye bye ah
Speaker 3: by Trump will get dunk.
Speaker 2: All our dignity must go.
Speaker 3: Guys, Like, with everything going on in the world, why
Speaker 3: is the president wasting his time with a clothing line.
Speaker 2: Like this is?
Speaker 3: He's a president, you know what I I mean? I
Speaker 3: talk smack about Trump all the time, but for the
Speaker 3: good of the country, I'm gonna help out.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna help this guy out.
Speaker 9: Donald.
Speaker 3: You know what, you focus on running a country and
Speaker 3: I'll help you sell those clothes.
Speaker 2: How about that? Huh? You guys ready for.
Speaker 3: A fashion show.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, let's do this.
Speaker 3: Let's do this. Let's do this, ladies, a gentleman.
Speaker 2: Dressed head to toe in pieces from the actual Evanka
Speaker 2: Trump collection. Give it up for our senior fashion correspondent.
Speaker 2: Does he light it? Everybody?
Speaker 3: Ever? Wow, Daisy, you look fabulous.
Speaker 11: Thank you. The fabric is definitely giving me a full body.
Speaker 11: But were there?
Speaker 3: You know what they say, beauty is pain, girl, tell
Speaker 3: us all about this fabulous look.
Speaker 11: Okay, well let's start with this gorgeous wool coat. Now,
Speaker 11: this is gonna protect you from all the elements, you know, snow, rain,
Speaker 11: bad press, criticism of your family, takes your dad mate
Speaker 11: on a bus.
Speaker 2: It's a great coat, Jussie.
Speaker 3: No one respects women's coats more than the Trump Right now,
Speaker 3: everyone's been talking about the B A M. But let's
Speaker 3: talk about this B A G. Oh.
Speaker 11: Let's now, this is the perfect bag for any stylish
Speaker 11: working woman whose family is going to use a presidency
Speaker 11: to make it rain Oh not waterproof?
Speaker 7: Oh? Oh?
Speaker 3: I thought it was.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm just seeing your amazing shoes right now. Amazing.
Speaker 3: But how do you walk in those?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 11: Actually, these are super comfy, so comfy that you could
Speaker 11: spend the whole day helping your dad trample all over
Speaker 11: the constitution.
Speaker 8: You won't feel a thing.
Speaker 11: Now we'll kill a thing because you can't, even though
Speaker 11: during the campaign you made it seem.
Speaker 8: Like you would.
Speaker 2: Girl, you are killing it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just like Trump's gonna kill the upa.
Speaker 6: Oh fashion burn, Yeah, it really burns.
Speaker 11: It's like a chemical.
Speaker 9: Oh you gotta rash.
Speaker 3: Is something going on, Disney?
Speaker 2: You should go Dozi light like everyone.
Speaker 9: We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Something something won't do.
Speaker 9: That's whole thing.
Speaker 3: Today is the official starts of New York Fashion Week,
Speaker 3: or as New York is called it, Thursday. For more,
Speaker 3: Please welcome to the show, our newest daily show correspondent.
Speaker 3: Do'll say sloan everybody day.
Speaker 5: Thanks Drever. Yes, it's fashion week. And while we'll see
Speaker 5: some new looks, some things will never change. For example,
Speaker 5: we know at least one model will fail at her
Speaker 5: only job walking down the runway, and that some designers
Speaker 5: are going to try to sell us clothes they fished out.
Speaker 2: Of a dumpster.
Speaker 5: But the thing m that it's the most attention every
Speaker 5: year is the cultural appropriation that never goes out of style.
Speaker 3: Well do say, for people who don't know, can you
Speaker 3: explain what cultural appropriation is?
Speaker 5: Sure, it's when you take something that divines the culture
Speaker 5: that you're not a part of and profit off of it.
Speaker 2: The fashion industry does it all the time.
Speaker 5: They take from black culture, Native Americans, Asia, you name it.
Speaker 5: I mean the models even appropriate their body dimensions from
Speaker 5: the aliens and close encounters.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, But you'll say, to be fair, not
Speaker 3: all instances of cultural appropriation are that extreme.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: Not every person who listens to rap or Where's a Kimono?
Speaker 5: Or sings the chorus to Desposito, it's trying to steal
Speaker 5: someone else's culture.
Speaker 3: Let's get to here, because I love singing Desposito.
Speaker 5: Well, you can definitely sing it because you know, you
Speaker 5: look like a Puerto Rican.
Speaker 2: Ohl.
Speaker 5: But sometimes across the line, like when you get movies
Speaker 5: about white boys saving jazz or Miley Cyrus Twerkin'. Oh hell,
Speaker 5: cultural appropriation is the only thing Taylor and Katie can't
Speaker 5: agree on.
Speaker 3: Okay, but some people look at some of these examples
Speaker 3: and they think, why the fuss.
Speaker 5: Because, Trevor is when white people discover something that used
Speaker 5: to be considered ghetto.
Speaker 2: For example, look at big butts.
Speaker 3: I always try to.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Big butts used to be considered undesirable, but since the
Speaker 5: Kardashians bought all of theirs, now everybody wants one.
Speaker 3: Ooh.
Speaker 2: And don't get me started on dreadlocks.
Speaker 5: When black people have them, they're discriminated against, they even
Speaker 5: get fired over it.
Speaker 2: But when white.
Speaker 5: People have them, close fly off the racks. Look at this,
Speaker 5: this is a fashion shower. She an avatar?
Speaker 3: What way go go back? Was that Kendall Jenna?
Speaker 2: Baby, it's always Kendle Jenna.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what they'll say.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'm gonna lie. I hear you.
Speaker 3: And this is interesting because for me, it's weird. Where
Speaker 3: I come from, cultural appropriation isn't really a big deal,
Speaker 3: right My My family's always trying to get my white
Speaker 3: friends to wear African clothes. They don't view it as
Speaker 3: white people trying to steal our culture. They think they're
Speaker 3: embracing it.
Speaker 8: Mm hm.
Speaker 5: And that's the attitude they got my ancestors over here.
Speaker 5: These white men are trying to steal us, they're embracing us.
Speaker 2: Come on, we'll get on the boat. Okay, no, no,
Speaker 2: but the way but it's not. It's not just Africa.
Speaker 3: When Beyonce did that video where she dressed up like
Speaker 3: an Indian goddess, right, people here were upset, but in India.
Speaker 2: A lot of people loved it.
Speaker 5: Okay, not traveling Beyonce is a bad example because she's
Speaker 5: a letter with goddess. Come on, forget culture and Beyonce
Speaker 5: is thow my identity. I wouldn't even press charges. I'd
Speaker 5: be like, thank you, this my honor.
Speaker 2: It's not look, Trevor, this is about equality.
Speaker 5: If minorities were equal, they wouldn't worry about people taking
Speaker 5: their culture because that wouldn't be all they have.
Speaker 2: Look, white people, if you're gonna appropriate.
Speaker 5: Take everything, take the good and the bad, you could
Speaker 5: take my struggle too. Get pulled over for no reason,
Speaker 5: get followed through its door, and the next time there's
Speaker 5: a Black Lives Matter march, I want to see you there, kindle,
Speaker 5: but don't worry about bringing that pepsy girl.
Speaker 2: We drink sprite, Jose Sloan.
Speaker 3: Everybody here in America. The lockdowns have not ended in
Speaker 3: many places, so many people have had to find new
Speaker 3: ways to keep themselves entertained in quarantine and because the
Speaker 3: Met Gala was supposed to take place next Monday, fashion
Speaker 3: fans have started recreating famous outfits from the event at home. Yeah,
Speaker 3: one person made the Rihanna dress out of newspaper. Another
Speaker 3: person decided to go with chandelier Katy Perry. And you
Speaker 3: know what's cool is that this is a challenge that
Speaker 3: anyone can participate in because if you put any household
Speaker 3: object on your head, the chances are that someone war
Speaker 3: it at some point to the Met Gala. So yeah,
Speaker 3: this year, that's what people are doing. Because of coronavirus.
Speaker 3: People are wearing Met Gala outfits at home, as opposed
Speaker 3: to what I did last year, where I wore home
Speaker 3: outfits to the Met Gala. I see what you say
Speaker 3: about me, Internet, and it hurts my feelings. Today is
Speaker 3: the beginning of New York Fashion Week. Hello, Based on
Speaker 3: what you're wearing, I guess you didn't know about it. Oh,
Speaker 3: but how did New York Fashion Week begin? Well, Daisy
Speaker 3: Leidek has the answer.
Speaker 11: It's New York Fashion Week, the semi annual event when
Speaker 11: designers show their collections to the world so fast fashion
Speaker 11: brands can decide which styles to rip off. But Unlike
Speaker 11: wet subway seats, fashion Week hasn't always been a New
Speaker 11: York institution. It's had a long walk down the runway
Speaker 11: to get where it is today. It all started in
Speaker 11: France in the sixteen hundreds, which might not surprise you,
Speaker 11: but back then Paris was very much not known for fashion.
Speaker 11: The French were about as stylish as a croc wearing
Speaker 11: a fanny pack. At that time, Madrid was actually the
Speaker 11: fashion capital of the world, and thanks to their tiny tapas,
Speaker 11: they could actually fit into all the sample sizes. But
Speaker 11: everything changed for France when Louis the fourteenth was King Offid.
Speaker 11: Louis turned France into a major power, and he wanted
Speaker 11: the threads to show it. For him, fashion was essential
Speaker 11: to the monarchy's prestige. I mean, no one wants to
Speaker 11: be executed by a guy wearing cargo shorts. Louis's obsession
Speaker 11: built up France's fashion and textile industry and soon turned
Speaker 11: Paris into the world center of fashion, which by default
Speaker 11: made it the world center of cocaine and bitchy gossip
Speaker 11: as well. It was under Louis that France established the
Speaker 11: idea of showing fall designs in the spring and spring
Speaker 11: designs in the fall, so you can thank him for
Speaker 11: that trendy coat you're wearing in August.
Speaker 4: Oooh, the new.
Speaker 12: Faufurt was so hot.
Speaker 11: France continued to dominate the fashion industry for centuries until
Speaker 11: World War Two, when Paris was under German occupation. This
Speaker 11: grinded their fashion influence to a halt because a no
Speaker 11: one could come to Paris to shop, and b Coco
Speaker 11: Chanelle was too busy banging Nazis to make any clothes.
Speaker 11: I know, terrible right, But no matter how many times
Speaker 11: I remind them of this, the boutique still won't give
Speaker 11: me a discount on a classic flat bag. But Paris's
Speaker 11: defeat turned out to be a win for the American
Speaker 11: fashion industry. The US seized on the opportunity to fill
Speaker 11: that gap quicker than a forever twenty one dress falls
Speaker 11: apart in the laundry. In nineteen forty three, America held
Speaker 11: the first Fashion Week, or as it was known then,
Speaker 11: Press Week, Started by a publicist Eleanor Lambert, it launched
Speaker 11: the careers of designers like Hattie Carnegie, Norman Morrel, and
Speaker 11: Claire mccardal, whose claim to fame was inventing sportswear, and
Speaker 11: by sportswear, I mean any cowual clothing, not the athleisure
Speaker 11: that you wear even though your main exercise is getting
Speaker 11: a caramel frap in the Starbucks drive through three.
Speaker 1: Four.
Speaker 11: I oh woo ah, Stanid is tough. Before Press Week,
Speaker 11: magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar were really all about
Speaker 11: European designers. They treated American designers the way they treated
Speaker 11: the Kardashians. In twenty ten they ignored them, but once
Speaker 11: Press Week started, they treated American fashion like well, the Kardashians. Now,
Speaker 11: she said She'd eat poop to look good?
Speaker 3: Should I eat poop?
Speaker 11: New York Fashion Week became such an institution that fashion
Speaker 11: capitals like Paris, London, and Milan soon added their own versions,
Speaker 11: and they continue pushing the fashion envelope to this day.
Speaker 11: You could only get away with severed heads in Milan.
Speaker 11: If that was on a New York runway, everyone just
Speaker 11: a it was another murder. As time passed, New York
Speaker 11: Fashion Week became home of so many seminal moments, like
Speaker 11: in the fifties when James Galano's popularized feminine glamour, or Adolfo,
Speaker 11: who gained fame in the sixties for his emphasis on accessories,
Speaker 11: and in the seventies, Norma Comali introduced a sleeping bag coat,
Speaker 11: although if you just wear your kid's sleeping bag it
Speaker 11: looks almost as good. As styles changed, so did fashion
Speaker 11: week itself. In the seventies and eighties, it turned into
Speaker 11: a NonStop party. Shows were held at nightclubs and celebrities
Speaker 11: started attending. By the early two thousands, celebs had become
Speaker 11: a permanent mainstay. Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton. Everyone was there,
Speaker 11: and that Hollywood glamour is still present to this day.
Speaker 11: But what was Larry David doing in the front row?
Speaker 11: He looked so missed to be there. He should have
Speaker 11: been on the catwalk. Through the years, fashion Week has
Speaker 11: had different homes in the city, from Bryant Park to
Speaker 11: Lincoln Center, but the most important place it's moved to
Speaker 11: in recent years is the same place you get all
Speaker 11: your porn.
Speaker 3: The Internet.
Speaker 11: Shows started live streaming, and designers began inviting bloggers and
Speaker 11: influencers to events. This all democratized fashion and made it
Speaker 11: more accessible to the public, or at least that's what
Speaker 11: I tell my therapist when we're working through my online
Speaker 11: shopping addiction.
Speaker 6: I'mbrook.
Speaker 11: New York Fashion Week hasn't just reflected the changing technology,
Speaker 11: It's also held a mirror up to society. From designers
Speaker 11: responding to the Me Too movement to the ongoing fight
Speaker 11: for more racial diversity on the runway, New York's been
Speaker 11: the site of progress for trans models, disabled models, and
Speaker 11: body positivity, which is kind of the least the fashion
Speaker 11: industry could do after telling women not to eat for
Speaker 11: the last one hundred years. So now you know everything
Speaker 11: about New York Fashion Week and how it came to
Speaker 11: be and how it's changing for the better. Now, if
Speaker 11: you'll excuse me, I have some poof.
Speaker 2: Teat here we go.
Speaker 12: Let's kick things off. Last night's met Gala. Now the
Speaker 12: magical night when the world's most fashionable cultural icons try
Speaker 12: to figure out how the they're gonna fit their spiky
Speaker 12: headdress into an oberpool.
Speaker 6: On fashion's biggest night, Garden inspired looks on full display
Speaker 6: right in bloom with this year's dress code the Garden
Speaker 6: of Times.
Speaker 11: Fans tried to figure out which star was fully covered
Speaker 11: head to toe and a floor length beij umbrella.
Speaker 1: Now this is a water singer Tayla. So many people
Speaker 1: talking about this. She had to be carried off the
Speaker 1: stairs of the net.
Speaker 7: The dress, which was made of sand, was simply too heavy.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, a dress made of sand is super impressive.
Speaker 12: Who are you wearing, Coney Island?
Speaker 1: Thank you very well.
Speaker 12: I like how she had four people carry her up
Speaker 12: the stairs. I bet Joe Biden saw that and turned
Speaker 12: to the Secret Service, like, let's just do that from Noah.
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