The 30+ Most Extreme Runway Shows of All Time (Chanel, Balenciaga, YSL)

[@deconibe]

The Balenciaga SS23 show with that big mud trail was definitely something

[@iAnon666]

Incredible 🤌

[@haydenforester1690]

was surprised you didn’t throw that in vid bliss

[@yarenado5813]

And the New York show too

[@coolman000099]

I thought this video came out in reaction to the Balenciaga show

[@aimeeaztec4601]

I totally agree! loved it! Embracing the grime of it all

[@ambergris5705]

That Iris Van Herpen 'show' was a big statement. The clothes she makes, 3D printed, exotic materials and all are honestly runway stuff only : you see them on models, and then on stars on the red carpet, that's it. They are couture pieces, with all that means in terms of care and safety for the garments. But there, IVH showed the (literal) strength of her avant-garde techniques. You'd never dream of bringing a Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda gown on top of a mountain (maybe Mount Olympus), or a beaded couture piece from Chanel anywhere close to wind. And yet, IVH threw one of her dresses out of the window of a plane. A literal couture dress. Not only is she saying something beautiful, she is also waking us to the possibility of a future where clothes can be incredibly glamorous, and yet extremely resistant, seamless and otherworldly, to the limits of what we can withstand and beyond.

[@anthonyd9844]

I literally screamed QUEEN! when I saw that IVH model jump out that window lmao she knows how to take her designs to new heights!

[@balazs7235]

Can I just reiterate how crazy these shows are!? They are literally a one time event. Yet they take a good few days to create sometimes and a ton of money! Sure they are made by billion dollar fashion houses, but the point is, the effort and creative these take, is massive.

[@skyhi910]

I just found this channel and it’s my new favorite. This is the kind of content I’ve been looking for to learn about fashion

[@paulazareba5629]

I haven't attended any fashion school and I know it's not necessary if one wants to work in this industry. Anyway, it's something I've been dreaming about to expand my knowlege and getting some insights from qualified people. What I'm really saying is I feel like attending fashion school while watching your videos. You have this quality and such a natural ability to share information which makes me feel like I'm listening to a f good lecture. Thank you for that, Bliss!

[@seraphina9973]

"My father is very serious about aesthetics." The greatest. Love this channel and how much work and passion you put into it. Thank you.

[@Snarky_Bird]

The overwhelming blue at the Balenciaga show may also reference the time Alfred Hitchcock threw a fancy dinner party with blue everything. Blue drinks, blue napkins, blue utensils and completely blue food. Hitchcock didn’t explain himself, the party goers didn't ask questions and the night went on like any other dinner party. One of my favorite stories ever

[@congfu9442]

One thing i really appreciate is how accurate and serious Bliss is, great job bro.

[@quinoreyes]

I'm surprised there are no Galliano-era Dior Haute Couture shows (Spring 1998/Marchesa Casati and Fall 1998/Disorient Express are standouts) and Ghesquière-era Louis Vuitton Resort shows (2016 at the Bob Hope House, Palm Springs; 2016 at the Niteroi Museum, Rio de Janeiro; 2018 at the Miho Museum, Kyoto; 2023 at the Salk Institute, San Diego).

[@oxiary]

seeing all of this makes us energised like wow fashion can take it anywhere can wait for a fashion show in space

[@janedoeeyed]

Man do I enjoy your work. I'm a apparel technical design student and had no clue about modern fashion. You have been such a great gateway

[@kamminae]

a quick shoutout to the models because…damn. so grateful to see such amazing shows come to fruition

[@liko_tunez]

Can you talk about Rick Owen’s (Slab) AW01 his diffusion label before Drkshdw

[@gmpoto]

Excellent Analysis and choices. Suddenly i have that many more shows to go watch! Thank you for sharing your passion and my mother says thanks too

[@izzati9582]

Blissss thanks for featuring my sultan in your video ! 🤣🤣🤣 we have GOLD everything .

[@cameroncayer9726]

Amazing video Bliss. So many of these shows I have never heard of before, but now I am so glad that I have! Time to go on my own research journey with this as my inspiration... I do have to say that the Chanel shows are especially memorable. It is amazing all the planning, energy, and money that goes into fashion shows that are over 20 minutes later. It is a unique art form in this sense. Paintings last centuries, musicians at least tour for dozens of shows, and musicals (with similar set detail) stay in the same spot for months on end. It is impressive and unique and too few get to experience it in person.

[@gittefeingeist9720]

What I love about channel is that it is mostly about art, with focus on performance art and occasionally touching on fashion ;)

[@ouzsnfouaenxfgfgsgsuhoauvdjd]

Yet another banger video bliss

[@commedicgarcon]

as of recent the diesel and balenciaga ss23 runways were unique for sure, diesel offered the world's largest inflatable statue and balenciaga offered a mud bathe lol. LV's SS23 launch in Aranya, China was also quite insane, they constructed huge structures and statues forming a city out of sand.

[@okayivy]

easily one of ur best videos to date !!!

[@kitssch]

Requesting more of this type of content! Most ____ Worst___ Most scary_____ ?!?!?! I'm here for it bb.

[@jamais_alliance]

Part 2!!!! This is great!

[@Lumiverse.]

This video is so cool, I love seeing how fashion is elevated with spectacle

[@gabrielafernandez2061]

Honorable mention (my personal fav) Dries Van Noten SS05 🍽️

[@user-pb3cg9qb4w]

Miu Miu FW21 is definitely one of my favorite shows it is just outdoors in the snow in Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites. I have always wanted to see a bts of how they took the models and everything there!

[@blakeshelton7055]

we need a series of this kind of video

[@freakeasia]

Some shows you missed that definitely deserve a mention: 1- Dior SS98 Haute couture (locations/interiors) 2- Dior FW98 Haute couture (the train that was driven into the runway) 3- Givenchy SS98 Haute couture (the japanese garden)

[@costcobongwater]

Thank you Bliss, very cool

[@mosalman595]

Man I love your passion and love for fashion These shows are really "crazy" but in a great way! Great video!

[@brandigonzalez8188]

Bliss I love you keep doing this 💖💖

[@charleskone1446]

Actually, the Chanel Super Market Show was inspired by the time Lagerfeld had to go to a supermarket and he was fascinated by it. ( there is a interview about it )

[@em84c]

He "had" to go to supermarket lol. The super rich and famous are like aliens. 👽 I love that show.

[@reactwithangel1969]

I love these types of videos

[@mactaylor6331]

Found this Chanel last year, it was my junior year of high school and I was finally getting into fashion and learning my style and I am so grateful I found it, like it’s so interesting and I’ve learned so much about fashion and myself from this

[@emilythorne4789]

Fendi's show on the Trevi fountain has always been one of my favourites

[@sarajenniferguaillasgonzal7067]

I have just realised that your video has dub and sub!! That is great!!!

[@lilly8447]

You're great Bliss! You've taught me nearly everything

[@beautybyWill]

The Marc Jacob’s LV at Louvre where they had a train come out and models come out with their own porters was ICONIC. Wish it would have been on here

[@xn6307]

great content as always

[@PetDKK]

This was so interresting and fun to watch! Thanks for sharing :D

[@렌렌-q8w]

Alexander McQueen 2010 Platos Atlantis show because the robots were completely controlled by a.i and some of the models were almost nocked over in 9 inch platform heels by the robots.

[@mizzpink98z24cavi]

I really liked the GUCCI marmont collection. I really liked the music.

[@sarahberney]

Such an excellent round up! I'll go check out the ones I haven't seen yet... thanks for listing them in the box thingy. Just one thing: your sound is so LOUD I have to really fiddle about with my levels to get comfortable listening to you. Is it just me? No other youtube vids do this 🤔

[@sandisivarslukins6519]

Bliss is goated

[@OfficialROZWBRAZEL]

5:00 I wouldn't be hurt if you just did a whole video/episode on the iconic McQueen shows 👀 I do know there's a kind of retrospective video but that's mostly quoting passages on singular pieces from the shows.

[@perezlorca4484]

gracias por traducirlo.te quiero.

[@FelmanTv]

love you man

[@aimeeaztec4601]

Bliss’s outfits are like a box of chocolates: you never know what u gunna get. I’m here for it!

[@LEIF_10119]

great video 💯

[@TheNewWaveTimes]

We need a video of strictly McQueen Shows! Dude was a legend RiP 🪦

[@i123456987654]

the Dior show in Egypt recently at the Pyramids...it was like so grand and cool...it was like at night and they had those pyramids lit up and so pretty...it was also a very long runway

[@cammiriley2172]

voss will always be my favorite show

[@Lumiverse.]

The lighting is a character your videos

[@LetsGetBookedUp]

I love your reaction to the fire, theatre shows use real fire a lot ... it's very cool, and now thankfully heavily risk assessed but I think it's actually part of performance history to have fire, the cue prompters would be lit by a gas lamp and pyrotechnics are still used in theatre, as well as rain showers, collapsing sets, I know of a show that built a large cement floor just for the couple month run and then demolished it afterward. Thought you'd be interested. Love this video. Thank you!

[@-sweyn-9559]

Balengiaga is legendary.

[@Paulxl]

I'm going to say that I really like the dress from the Alexander McQueen show with the robot arms even when it was white.

[@Igbtq]

LEE MCQUEEN U WILL ALWAYS REMAIN AN ICON. LOVE U.

[@taliashelest2168]

God bless Bliss 😊

[@kamisoto3120]

Thank you for spanish subtitles 😭

[@CKis01]

The Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 1999’s model is Shalom Harlow.

[@sweco92]

I'd love to watch a video of Bliss and Loïc Prigent. Both are very good at explaining and creating "viewer immersion".

[@siddhartha9636]

The chanel rocket, the louis vuitton train, the louis vuitton carousel, the chanel carousel, the chanel plane and so on....

[@aimeeaztec4601]

Demnas and Carol Christian Poell’s are my favs. I think CCP’s mainstream downstream was iconic and will always be cited and remembered for such an avant idea. although demnas concepts are very strong too snd I’ve gone back to them numerous times. Balenciaga is my fav designer so I’m a bit bias towards demnas shows. CCP is so intriguing on the other hand for reasons I don’t even know myself. Maybe I love downstream because I can’t fully comprehend it. Thanks bliss / your level of detail and humour are just two reasons why I’m glad this is your job.

[@ouzsnfouaenxfgfgsgsuhoauvdjd]

My favorite as well, I’m a sucker for anything vetements/balenciaga

[@wandecsbh4261]

Cmon Bliss!!! YOU MISSED WILD & LETHAL TRASH! Just Marvelous!!!

[@nataljafomina]

so funny and intelligent I watch your videos through google translator, you can't help but watch them

[@HoanNguyen-lf3rr]

now i need a video of your dad reacting to Pierre Cardin's house

[@fashunslore]

the Chanel rocket ship and ysl in Iceland should definitely be on this list

[@melanieVIP1]

Jaquemus does amazing shows!!

[@JoaoBrentano1]

LV 2016 on MAC, Niterói - RJ

[@googlekrishna7025]

@4:48 there is the most beautiful digital editing glitch I’ve ever seen Edit: it’s very Margiela of you

[@cheesequeenlordofallcheese]

I don't know about other people but while the art and the that they were able to remake a ocean landscape is commendable and amazing. It feels decadent and the money used to ship Iceberg and could have been used to pay employees, to make one. I'm making this comment early into the video so it's possible that the reason why they had to get a real iceberg was important but I just think making everything from the Ground Up relatively cheaper and also more to the concept

[@gryfinz]

loved the intro lol

[@toblerone1704]

I always thought Bliss just filmed in the afternoon, never thought it was lights 💀

[@streamskat]

I loved the Fall 2012 Burberry collection with fake rain and thunder.

[@jackstathis7615]

even crazier than his Joan show, during McQueen's 1997 show Its a Jungle out There one of the cars used in the runway caught fire because they didn't empty the gas tank! completely unplanned and uncontrolled! what a wild show!!

[@alphabets0ng]

I really love your videos, but as a movie fan, I have to emphasise that that scene from the Truman show is highly appreciated and well known. Virgil is a genius, but the Truman show stands on its own. I would even go as far and say Virgil is the one benefiting from latching onto the imagery, not vice versa.

[@ashisyt8734]

Plz do video of balenciaga ss23 !!!!❤❤❤❤

[@gemstonesparkle7915]

Chanel is simply the best! And there's soooo many more that wasn't said, like the one recreating a cassino, an airplane, an alpine village under snow, a french chateau garden, a parisian rooftop, a parisian street, and a rocket being released!! I miss Karl so much... Chanel now looks just an ordinary brand. Also, theres a 2016 cruise collection of Louis Vuitton in the MAC Niterói, a museum of contemporary art designed by Oscar Niemeyer on top of a small cliff by the sea with views to Rio's iconic landscape.

[@marvinraphaelmonfort8289]

chanel forest, chanel waterfalls, chanel rocket, etc... mcqueen golden shower, vuitton in japan, brazil, american midwest come to mind

[@yassercastillo2607]

I don't know what to think. Some of them are giving pure waste, others give shenanigans that distract from the clothes and a few of them work. That YSL ring thind in Marrakesh looks super dope and the last one with the floating models gives more art performance than runway, not a bad thing of course but do we remember the clothes?. To me the most memorable runways have the drama in the clothes, like Galiano for Dior or every McQueen show. That Joan show, regardless of the ring of fire gave really memorable pieces. The Mugler shows are also unforgetable, because of the clothes. Love your pants btw.

[@cylord9469]

It would have been nice to see the W&LT Summer 1996 Show just for the absurdity of it.

[@croissant-kun4025]

I don't know jack shit about fashion but your videos have educated me way more than any schooling I've been through in the past 22 yrs of my life, so thank you Bliss for making these videos😃❤️ P.S. "A. very big building" got me choking on my spit😂

[@vctrszuwu]

bliss you forgot THAT louis vuitton cruise show held in THAT giant bridge that i forgot the name of

[@selloane6644]

Please please do an entire episode about McQueen shows 😭🥺❤️

[@sakshaverma9979]

let’s go to the beach beach

[@eleanorchristie8727]

youtube unsubscribed me from you :(( back subscribed again bliss!

[@maquinapalmares5648]

The Gucci Love Parade in LA shut down all of Hollywood Blvd for a whole day, and the day before, they rented a whole fake-city movie set in Paramount Studios for the models to rehearse in… The paramount studios thing is just a flex on the models, crazy how they just did that & didn’t make it public at all. I was look 106 btw 🤭

[@dummysick_8117]

apropos chanel collections, I thought it was quite iconic when they did it in a maglev train station in shanghai 2005

[@rz1974]

IMO the presentation does overpower the clothes in Jacquemus shows, which are by comparison always just nice enough, mostly an issue of the massive open scale, but its also hard to compete with the splendor of the natural world

[@kokedodedoo]

where/what is the image of the chanel bag on the thumbnail?

[@izzyd68]

Chanel carousel and space is crazy too

[@jubs1117]

Another cool one is the Marques Almeida AW21 show - it was done on the world's longest suspended footbridge, in Portugal (it's a Portuguese brand, so)

[@tdsavage]

Nice video But the dimensions of the grand Palais are a little bit sus. 10 american football fields seem a bit unrealistic¿

[@Lumiverse.]

Fashion is a celebration of presentation, personhood, imagination, self-expression. It is human.

[@bafbaas1210]

Well this comment could honestly take a spot in the list, its a lot

[@tjh7345]

not the biggest moschino fan but that resort 2020 show at universal studios was certainly cool to see

[@izzyd68]

I’m surprise bliss didn’t mention Margiela😹

[@danielpark960]

Im pretty sure for the third runway show Alexander Mcqueen was inspired by Joel-Peter Witkin

[@clelia1680]

do the one vid about mcqueen shows!!!!!!!!

[@victoriavandoren6721]

I understand you can only have so many but there are a few shows I think your missing. Chanel fall 2016 pret a porter, Dior spring 1998 haute couture, and Gucci resort 2019, oh and also that Chalayan show with the table skirt.

[@katerynabb]

thanks for the video and the research that was done! Demna didn't settle in Ukraine, though. I think he moved to Tbilisi after his home region was captured by Russians, and then went to Germany. I think the winter runway show was the first show since the war in Ukraine started, and Demna wanted to show his support to Ukraine.

[@massimosquecco8956]

Spectacular location meant to gaslight the public and let us forget about the clothes, with the only exception of A. mc Queen. I miss the kinds of YSL catwalk sooo much: flowers, couple of candelabra, elevated platform and consistent clothes.