Reviews of Every Fashion Documentary Ever

The best and the worst fashion documentaries.
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Reviews include McQueen, Dries, We Margiela, Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, Valentino: The Last Emperor, Dior and I, Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker, Notebook on Cities and Clothes, Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel, Iris, Bill Cunningham: New York, The Gospel According to Andre, Unzipped, Anti-Fashion in the 90s, The September Issue, Franca: Chaos and Creation, The First Monday in May, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's, Fresh Dressed, Advanced Style, The Tents, The Director, Blue Gold, Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer, Very Ralph, House of Z, The True Cost, Mademoiselle C, Marc Jacob and Louis Vuitton, Men of Cloth, Chasing Beauty, Sneakerheadz, About Face, Versailles 73, Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards, Maddman: The Steve Madden Story, and Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women.

[@Obie.]

Zoolander was honestly my gateway doc. I get why people mistake a lot of the fashion icons featured in the film as other american celebrities, but that's just because they don't get the time in the lime light that they deserve.

[@nikolai7521]

Mine was Bruno

[@anthonyd9844]

Watching the True Cost changed my life. It's one of those movies you never forget. If you watch any of these Documentary's, The True Cost is one to consider. You the customer are more powerful than you think, your money is power, be careful where you shop and support small businesses or invest in quality items that wont wear out as fast it really makes a big difference.

[@Visdemhvemduer]

Dries is single handedly the best fashion documentary of all time. I remembered taking a euro bus from Paris to Bruxelles just to see the film premiere because I didn't want to wait for a year or so before it became available in France (that was what had happened with Dior and I).

[@ingrids.8465]

This is a goldmine! This is insane, I can't wait to get my paycheck so I can support you, not so much for the new content but for this as well I feel like I should be paying to watch this fantastic video!

[@BlissFoster]

That means so much to me, Ingrid 😊 thank you 🙏 🙏

[@ryanskelton7888]

Well, this creator gets it. Brava to young experts imparting a point of view and full understanding of the industry, craft, and it’s community. Full breath of fresh air. Xx

[@bheinatz1]

Hi Bliss, a great documentary about renown bespoke suit maker, Antonio Liverano: il Colori di Antonio. There is also the documentary if the Neapolitan bespoke masters: O'Mast. As you can tell, I'm into bespoke suit making! Even if you're not, it may give you an insight into his technically skilled these guys are and how neapolitans turned traditional suit making into something softer and more stylish. Great video and list of docs!

[@deboleenar]

Bliss, I discovered your channel a couple of days ago, and this is only the second video I've watched here, and I am subscribing to your Patreon. This is incredible content; thank you for making it. Looking forward to learning more.

[@BlissFoster]

That means a ton to me 🙏

[@laurynsneeze3288]

Love all these! There was also “Baring It All: Inside New York Fashion Week”. However, I really wish there were more Fashion Business/Retail/Merchandising/Buying Documentaries in the world 🙁 I want to learn more about people like Ken Downing etc.

[@elgranjuanito817]

Fabulous video! I am confident that with your passion, talent, and breadth of knowledge about fashion, you’d create a documentary worthy to be compared to the ones you reviewed. I look forward to it! I was surprised to see the omission of a number of Loic Prigent documentaries such as the excellent Signe Chanel. Also, since you included Unzipped, Catwalk was another 90’s fashion video, which was my gateway drug into the world fashion.

[@user-lg4mt8vx9n1]

There were some movies that I didn’t know because they haven’t been released in my country JAPAN. So thank you for introducing ☺️

[@tinabc4694]

Is Zoolander a documentary?

[@MoniqueSinha]

That’s what I was thinking. It’s a movie not a documentary.

[@salvadoresalvadore3268]

I laughed

[@ceciliapereira5011]

i think it was a joke

[@TheBrcylmz]

it is

[@erohw]

Lolol right ?!?

[@mwwtt2875]

Some British Designer documentaries I recommend, alongside McQueen, would be Westwood: Punk,Icon,Activist (2018) and Paul Smith: Gentleman Designer (2015) I think the juxtaposition of those 3 designers really helps map out some of the history of British fashion. As someone who doesn't really care for paul smith's worth I actually really liked the documentary and just hearing the way he works as a creative, compared to someone a lot more extreme like Alexander.

[@GraceKirschbaum]

thank you so much Bliss!!!

[@BlissFoster]

You are so welcome!💫💫

[@kavyashah2375]

Franca: Chaos and Creation, a must watch!!

[@michaelsmelliott]

Another one I would suggest is the Chanel episode of 7 Days Out on Netflix. I guess it’s not technically a “documentary” but I think it’s a really good look into the behind the scenes of a Chanel show production and really highlights the seamstresses in the Chanel ateliers.

[@michaelsmelliott]

Directed by Andrew Rossi who also directed The First Monday in May!

[@MoniqueSinha]

I love that one!

[@noname89636]

This video just kept me in the house for the next 2 days while I binge all these docu's...thaaank youuuuu!!!!

[@DavySolaris]

Disappointed not to see The Devil Wears Prada on this list, but good video I guess

[@em84c]

It's not a doc ..

[@marsh3774]

Bliss Foster I’m so glad I discovered you

[@iAmShakka]

You’re a G for this sir.

[@LadyShanghai-wj1kh]

Huh. I was just googling ‘fashion documentaries’ 6 hrs ago & here you are.

[@_profanity]

not a doc, but “The Phantom Thread” is a film about a director of a fashion house and his new lover and it’s a really slow-burning, but extremely beautiful movie!

[@squitof_doom2830]

thanks so much!!! I don`t even know where to start. Now I got sooo much content to watch

[@BlissFoster]

Start anywhere! Watch as many as you can, wait a few months, then watch them all again!

[@momolliad]

Not Zoolander getting recognized as a documentary 💀

[@sonsofthebonito4799]

Model by Frederick Wiseman. Very detailed and granular look at a modelling agency in the 80s. Amazing doc

[@lacheinc]

Great video! I would've also loved to see you mention the Halston documentary as well.

[@TBGalli_Don]

Where do I get these? Love your content btw. I'll come through with the vision

[@Antistylestyleclub]

We knew what country Martin lived in :) He is considered the 7th of the Antwerp six 💫 Greets from Belgium!

[@BlissFoster]

Haha sorry, I meant what country he currently resides in 😊 Hes definitely Belgian 💫💫

[@Antistylestyleclub]

@@BlissFoster No problem 😊 We don't have a lot of national pride here, Martin is all we got ;) Love your content btw

[@BlissFoster]

You should have national pride!! You have the Antwerp six, Martin, Demna went to school at the royal academy, and Jan Jan! There’s so much excellence that comes out of Belgium!

[@yellowbags]

The best one is a BBC series from the 90's called The Look. It's on YT! Interviewees: EVERYONE. Armani, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Isaac Mizrahi, ISSEY MIYAKI, tons of fashion journalists... such a gem. Quote on New Yorks 7th avenue rag trade: "Whatever its designers artistic or cultural pretentions, the fashion industries amalgam of cheap labour and artisinal skill, serving planned obsolesence, makes it a paradigm of the workings of capitalism." Great stuff!

[@clayrummer]

I was just binging all your videos and I got a notification for a new one ;)

[@susanwood1445]

If you have BBCiplayer I found Cutting up Rough a 1997 McQueen documentary that follows Alexander Mcqueen doing both his own and the Givenchy collection. You see his process and he explains in his own words. Also in the same place Slate Julien Macdonald Similar format to the McQueen doc and speakx directly with the designer.

[@privacymatters6023]

Dapper Dan needs a documentary.

[@MrPolarhavet]

Bliss, have you seen "Rick, Michele, and Scarlett" (dir. Jan Sharp)? An unorthodox fashion doc. It's available on YT.

[@eyalz7809]

Hi Bliss 🎉, sooooo…. Instead of the movie McQueen ( which sadly really wasn’t so good) I would like to mention the documentary”McQueen and I”. Much more detailed and interesting (in my opinion 😊. That movie did for me the finale push to study and become a fashion designer 🕺🏻. You are doing magic by the way you work and describe and I love your channel so much. Thank you for that ❤

[@taty9872]

Bergof Goodman is still in business

[@christophergoodman7667]

Heya, love the list and defo need to check some of these out. Ones that I watched and loved are: -Halston (2019 documentary by dogwoof) - obviously there is the netflix series, but this documentary is great! -Le jour d'avant (series by Loïc Prigent for ARTE): list of designers include (Fendi, Lanvin, JPG, and more). -Signe Chanel (another by Loïc Prigent) -Loïc Prigent's youtube channel (he has an amazing ability to make designers feel at ease around him and you get to see a range of labels from Marine Serre, Botter, Fendi and Chanel and many more) -L'amour Fou (the story of YSL) -The Editor's Eye (Vogue doc on editors past and present) -Westwood (tbh not in love with it but insightful) -Margiela AW20 process film (documented by Nick Knight and Showstudio team): interesting process film

[@sasa2979]

I’ve been waiting for a video like this.

[@ryanx3584]

McQueen and I, for me, eclipses the more recent McQueen, albeit they are both phenomenal. Great list though, and cheers for compiling.

[@manutsavsorot4768]

there is another doc on mcqueen called mcqueen and i, it's on youtube. I always kinda likes it more than the new mcqueen, probably bc i watched it first but yeah. Def worht watching.

[@catemiranda99]

Thank you!!! Great content in every video

[@frankiediaz021]

The Manolo documentary is one of my absolute favorites.

[@em84c]

I watched a doc about Zac Posen and it was great. He still lived at home with his mum in a New York apartment and he made all the clothes there. He didn't have a proper studio. I haven't finished the video so I don't know if you mention it here yet. Edit: you did- House of Z

[@sydneyb.267]

RIP Iris, a rare bird indeed.

[@taiyebamuskan3454]

Where can i find these documentaries? There are only a few in torrent.

[@spliiii]

Maybe also check out: 7 days out, there's an episode on Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld (rip) Phantom Thread, not really informative about fashion but still a really good film about a dressmaker

[@Unbothered__kid]

where can i find these movies?

[@martinschmidt6881]

Signé chanel was also great. But you have to watch it in French or German

[@elgranjuanito817]

Yes, yes, 100% Yes! Signe Chanel should have definitely been included on this list!

[@singleoneonly]

Is there a reason why paris is burning is listed in the description but isn't mentioned in the video?

[@beardreview]

Anyone know I can watch Yoji s Dressmaker in the UK? Also recommended the Vivienne Westwood documentary and the Ozwald Botang

[@visacadabra7601]

The one about Susanne Bartsch is interesting.

[@TheWanya]

what about the Yves Saint Laurent one even tho it’s in French I think

[@vespitts1653]

Here are three that are missing. Yves Saint Laurent's The Life and Times, and L'Amour Fou plus Guy Bourdin's "When the Sky Fell."

[@BlissFoster]

Thank you!!

[@vespitts1653]

@@BlissFoster One More. "Looking for Stephen Sprouse."

[@FOCUS-ho6mh]

Where to find these

[@oliviasofia7636]

does anybody know where I could watch House of Z? can't find it

[@Kristynorris]

Where can i watch all these documentaries though

[@iamlainah5422]

where could i watch them for free?

[@jamesscalise4990]

Wait why did you say RIP Bergdorf's? Did you mean Barney's?

[@csabaherberth6167]

hi guys anyone knows where can i watch any of these?

[@nimbalfingaz]

Ultra violet … looking for Halston …… this ones major

[@calvinguile1315]

I LOVED Iris❤

[@lostland9446]

Try RENEGADES OF FASHION - its a Series I have seen Rei kawakubo n yohji yamamoto’s it’s good

[@diva1675]

How old am I? How can someone not know Isaac Mizrahi was sooo over saturated in the 90’s.

[@khumomorojele3051]

Great content as per usual. Please suggest/recommend sites (preferably free) where we can stream these documentaries. thx.

[@BlissFoster]

It’s tough to do that bc they’re constantly changing 😕 Just Google around, you’ll find em 🦾

[@ImJaeHallMusic]

LOVE THIS

[@deepdiver9355]

why is the audio so quiet?

[@fashionboyrobbychin]

Wait, RIP Bergdorf's? Am I missing something?

[@SA-em1lv]

Its just not what it was ...

[@DaveNYC]

Thinking he might have been thinking of Barneys

[@MoniqueSinha]

@@DaveNYC that makes sense

[@theonlygosha]

Anyone tell you that you look like Matthew Lillard in Serial Mom?

[@johngavin1271]

Le Vestairie masculin scrute par Loic Prigent Arte is quite good

[@kilian1600]

Bro thank you 😭🤝 your videos give my KZbin account a purpose hahahah 🛐😂

[@alejandrosotres5791]

Where can I watch all this Documentaries?

[@BlissFoster]

Google them! 😊 there’s no single place

[@gabrielblomerus]

you missed: Yves Saint Laurent l’amour fou, it’s a really good and personal documentary most of it told through his ex boyfriends point of view

[@bintousaho7641]

I’ve been looking for house of z for months can’t find it anywhere😑 help

[@ashd981]

Hi! where can I watch all these documenatries, I am from India and its not available on amazon prime or Netflix? how can I watch them?

[@lenhu6384]

where we can find these documentary ?

[@BlissFoster]

It’s different for every country 💫💫 the best thing to do is just Google each of them individually for your country 🦾

[@nick-vt4qj]

rip jimmy webb

[@jext678]

Which ones r on Netflix//hulu

[@BlissFoster]

It changes often, so there’s never an answer that’s useful for very long, unfortunately.

[@ntsakomathebula4840]

I recommend the devil wears Prada. Simply put the as a documentary on fashion, absolute horseshit, but as pure surface level entertainment its up the with Avengers Infinity war. Most important aspect about the movie is expression, something the average laymen couldn't understand. To some up my review, as Gunna puts it: "CC on my lady (CC), that's Celine, that's not Cha-nay-nay (Cha-nay-nay)."

[@BlissFoster]

I personally don’t enjoy fashion-related dramas, but I reeeeally liked The Devil Wears Prada

[@Lumiverse.]

Zoolander, the documentary

[@guytiips3906]

NHK : THAKOON

[@ihavenoclue666]

KAPITAL World is pretty good

[@da.Realghar]

The Tom Ford one?

[@BlissFoster]

Thanks for adding this one, I wasn’t aware of it at all 💫💫 What’s it called??

[@kavyashah2375]

@@BlissFoster The life of a star : Tom Ford...this is the one I've watched, idk if there's any other!

[@da.Realghar]

The one that i watch is the Visionaries documentary for the Oprah Network, it was for the return of Ford to womenswear in SS11, you have people like Lauren Hutton, Beyoncé and Julianne Moore walking for Tom. Also i want to add L'amour Fou about Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé i think was beautiful. Both of them are on KZbin. Also..... Lagerfeld confidential..... I despise it, so long and boring but there you go, another one to the pile.

[@da.Realghar]

Oh..... The Editors Eye, way better than the September Issue.... So overrated, just like Anna was.

[@Nerdz2]

what kinda statement he tryna make with this adidas nike combo

[@visacadabra7601]

frederick wiseman models 1981

[@rashidapittman8513]

I tried to watch this but I don’t know where to find it?

[@Jg05]

Lmao Zoolander

[@user-jy9rq8nj7q]

7:55

[@doeeyed7498]

Wait, I am that early wow

[@johngavin1271]

Antonio Lopez Sex Fashion Disco. Vogue the Editors eye (KZbin). Love Cecil (Beaton) Photography. See Know Evil (David Sorrenti) Nineties Photography. Ultrasuede & Halston (Not the Netflix biopic)

[@vllncse]

8)

[@CatherineFoster-n8e]

thank you so much Bliss!!!

[@cheetonips6399]

Alber & Lanvin by Loïc Prigent is an amazing snapshot of the last 48 hours to a fashion show

[@blackathena1565]

Loic has such great snapshots! I would love to see him deep dive even more

[@royceharvey5894]

Gia (1998) is a good one. Biopic of Gia Carangi. I personally don’t know too much on model culture, and after watching this I spent a week looking up everything about Gia and all other supermodels.

[@anonymousgirl799]

The Battle at Versailles documentary left out....American vs. Paris designers in 1978, including the advent of black models used in runway shows, documentary should be required viewing!

[@aBirdbyBrancusi]

Yeah!!! You missed a really important one!!!! -- CATWALK

[@zaidithfang1177]

Another one I’d recommend which you didn’t mention is Celebration (2007) about the final shows of Yves Saint Laurent.

[@BlissFoster]

Awesome!! Thank you!!

[@thecreativespodcast8652]

Don’t forget about the vivienne westwood one on prime!

[@matthewedelstein932]

Catwalk is one of the best fashion documentaries. Portfolio is one from the 80s that is great.

[@BlissFoster]

Thanks Matthew 💫💫

[@elgranjuanito817]

Yes, thank you! Catwalk was my gateway video into the fashion world. Stylistically, it’s very similar to Unzipped (very 90’s), but better!

[@georgechanturiawithmontigu8796]

Wonder boy?

[@kafyel]

Don't forget about the YSL documentaries such as Celebration!!

[@arunabhmahanta]

Anyone know where I can watch Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker? Can I buy it somewhere?

[@ohmygvddess]

Versaille '73 is literally the greatest documentary I've ever seen which. tells the tale of what may have been the greatest fashion show in history. Definitely a must watch!

[@tinydugong]

Did you sneak Zoolander in there to check if we were paying attention 🤔

[@BlissFoster]

Yes!

[@belazbelbel9801]

Oh shit! Bahahaha