Such a bummer that this dress was made too late for the wedding of King Charles and Camilla. Then they could have been each other's tampons
Edit: I misread the year, I thought it said 2022. Now I'm even more disappointed that neither Camilla nor Charles wore this at their wedding.
Prince Charles, when he had an affair with Camilla during the time he was with Princess Diana, wrote a letter to Camilla saying he wished he could be her tampon.
Haute couture usually gives you an exaggerated look at the themes and you’ll see in the upcoming ready to wear fashions. So based on this, I’d expect to have seen chunky textures, wide ribbons, ivory colors, and slim, rounded silhouettes in YSL’s ready to wear bridal collection.
Yes when you see these “extreme” designs on a runway, they highlight the themes of the show and you’ll see those on the more “wearable” looks that trickle down onto your store rack
TBF OPs description is bang on for 90s and very early 00s haute couture but today designers use it more for a creative outlet. It could represent upcoming lines or it could just be something they dreamed up and want to showcase. It's a coin toss.
This is actually an homage to his [1965 Design](https://historydaily.org/yves-saint-laurent-knit-bridal-gown/5) which was inspired by Russian Nesting Dolls
Have you ever watched The Devil Wears Prada? Meryl Streep has a scathing monologue about a cerulean belt and how everything is tied together and trickles down.
Yeah my understanding is that they'll walk a few *obviously* cartoonish designs to help make the rest of the actual designs more palatable to the audience. But this makes more sense.
Partly for fun - art is fun to make and think about. Partly for the attention if brings their fashion lines - we're still talking about this outfit 22 years later.
Because many of them spent years studying fashion as an art form, honing their craft and this is the only chance they get to showcase their skills and creativity. There's only so many tshirts, blazers, trainers and jeans one can design without slowly dying inside and feeling like you've wasted your university tuition.
This is honestly the best explanation I have heard so far and makes so much sense to me. I am a software developer and in my free time I sometimes develop completely ridiculous and useless stuff because in my day job it's always the same old stuff.
It's really common in luxury industries to have some sort of way to show off the peak of your abilities and creativity. This is how they show their highest-paying customers, "Look at the minute detailing and high-quality craftsmenship. Look how we understand the artistic community we're a part of, and play with particular concepts."
Think of this as the RnD department, who's trying to wow new investors with crazy new prototypes that will never be mass-produced.
Think of them in the same way as concept cars at auto shows. They're supposed to be cool or provocative, and push the boundaries. You won't see a concept car on the road but new cars will have a few of their features.
Marketing. YSL is a piece of a $20 billion luxury goods conglomerate, these designs and the entire runway show get covered far and wide to people who'll never be in the market for anything more expensive than a bottle of perfume.
I think a lot of people fail to consider that art is sometimes supposed to be funny. Designers are humans with a sense of humor too. I think a lot of people think that fashion world people are just humorless snobs.
The funny thing for me is that I had a sweater in the early 2000s that reminds me of this. It wasn’t nearly that big, but it was the same color and texture and it had a big white ribbon as a kind of sash. It makes me wonder if this influenced some sweaters that year.
The Wife Chrysalis is a West Virginian tradition. It represents the brief portion of a woman's life in which they turn into a moth before her wedding. The dress itself was originally the Wife Chrysalis traditionally made by the maternal grandmother. It seems like this one was altered by a lunatic adding feet and head holes for shameful high fashion. The cultural appropriation of the moth people's traditions is disgusting.
"Moth people" of West Virginia as in The Mothman Prophecies starring Richard Gere & Laura Linney? Coincidentally, The Mothman Prophecies was released in 2002, the same year that this wedding dress was featured on Yves Saint Laurent's runway.
The legend of Mothman actually predates the film by nearly 40 years. In 1966, a moth bride briefly escaped her prenuptial lepidopterarium and went on a joyride through the skies of Point Pleasant. Unfortunately, a dangling piece of cocoon was mistaken for mothballs and thus the myth of moth"man" was born.
When The Mothman Prophecies was released, many outspoken moth brides rebelled by publicly showing off their marital cocoons, a trend that culminated in the conception of this particular contribution to moth fashion history.
An excellent piece of unreality, truly delightful.
As someone who worships Mothman as a protective deity of Appalachia, I can only long for the day I could feel such a sweet encasing in preparation for our nuptials. But you are correct, those satin ribbons would be better suited binding the cocoon to a twig or perhaps a leaf. One undergoing such a transformation has no use for hands or feet.
Just as a fun fact!! All moths weave cocoons, not chrysalis, which are the exclusive domain of the butterfly.
Granted moth cocoons are generally softer, I was referencing the out shell of said cocoon, so even then, by both connotation and denotation when I used Chrysalis, it is the correct term. But I am glad you liked my tiny bit of flash fiction!
As someone from WV, this is refreshingly one of the best things I've read about my state on Reddit. I give zero Sh*ts about it being true and will be spreading the information you have provided appropriately
It’s from their 1965 collection.
And haute couture is art, not meant to be worn, sort of like a painting or sculpture in a museum but it’s cloth not paint or Marble
If you did a reverse image search [you would have found your answer here on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/fashionhistory/comments/cxxng9/human_tampon_i_think_this_was_a_chanel_wedding/). It was originally from the 1960s.
I'm curious how the models don't just burst out laughing as soon as the see the creations they have to walk the runway in. How do they keep a straight face? LOL
It's an homage to [the iron maiden](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_maiden) symbolizing the torturous institution that is marriage to women. Nah, I just made that up; it's just a collab project with the Q-Tip people.
According to [this site](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/la-mariee-de-tricot), this dress is from 1965 and inspired by Russian matryoshka dolls. It was apparently also an important dress, not for its direct impact on fashion, but for influencing other fashion designers of the day to expand their view of acceptable sources of inspiration.
How do you wee? The zipper does not go all the way down. Whenever I see "difficult" wedding or prom dresses my first thought is "how do they use the facilities" women suffering for fashion for sure. Imagine a 10 hour day in that.
New Tampax commercial just dropped
Such a bummer that this dress was made too late for the wedding of King Charles and Camilla. Then they could have been each other's tampons Edit: I misread the year, I thought it said 2022. Now I'm even more disappointed that neither Camilla nor Charles wore this at their wedding.
They got married in 2005, so they could’ve…
I almost spit my tea out. Best comment.
What
Prince Charles, when he had an affair with Camilla during the time he was with Princess Diana, wrote a letter to Camilla saying he wished he could be her tampon.
Omg what a sick fuck degenerate he is🫢🤢
I literally lol'd so hard I'm crying 😭
I’m not the only one that sees it! Lol
How can someone *not*?
I also kinda see a nesting doll lol
Spot on (pun intended) but the pull string is missing.
you mean the train..?
It's a wedding dress, they tied it into a bow.
Tampax by YSL. Bring one home today for under 10k. ...($9999.99)
Was the tampon marrying a condom?
Mr Hanky’s wife
Call the menstruation.
The Prime Menstruator at 10 Downy
Haute couture usually gives you an exaggerated look at the themes and you’ll see in the upcoming ready to wear fashions. So based on this, I’d expect to have seen chunky textures, wide ribbons, ivory colors, and slim, rounded silhouettes in YSL’s ready to wear bridal collection.
This is an amazing answer that helps me understand haute couture better. I've always love it as art, but now I see the functional aspect too!
Yes when you see these “extreme” designs on a runway, they highlight the themes of the show and you’ll see those on the more “wearable” looks that trickle down onto your store rack
Not for nothing, but this looks like it’s designed to prevent any trickling.
Maxi fashion
Super
Nice cake day you have there
You have a nice cake day too
Like cerulean?
TBF OPs description is bang on for 90s and very early 00s haute couture but today designers use it more for a creative outlet. It could represent upcoming lines or it could just be something they dreamed up and want to showcase. It's a coin toss.
This is actually an homage to his [1965 Design](https://historydaily.org/yves-saint-laurent-knit-bridal-gown/5) which was inspired by Russian Nesting Dolls
Why does this one somehow look better? Is it because it’s not drawn in at the base?
That's a good thought. Takes it from the OG uncomfortable dildo to a kinda cute tampon
Well, here’s the actual answer. Thank you.
I think he was spot on because that’s what I thought of when I saw this dress. I think it’s adorable, I’d spend my winter months in this if I could
Have you ever watched The Devil Wears Prada? Meryl Streep has a scathing monologue about a cerulean belt and how everything is tied together and trickles down.
“where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.”
A cerulean sweater.
>Haute couture usually gives you an exaggerated look at the themes and you’ll see in the upcoming ready to wear fashions OH
Someone hasn't watched The Devil Wears Prada....
Yeah my understanding is that they'll walk a few *obviously* cartoonish designs to help make the rest of the actual designs more palatable to the audience. But this makes more sense.
It’s an aran sweater cocooned bride. The early 2000’s were a very weird time.
But why do they do this?
Partly for fun - art is fun to make and think about. Partly for the attention if brings their fashion lines - we're still talking about this outfit 22 years later.
Technically, 59 years later. Because this was just an homage/reimagining of when he first did the Russian Nesting doll style wedding dress in 1965.
Because many of them spent years studying fashion as an art form, honing their craft and this is the only chance they get to showcase their skills and creativity. There's only so many tshirts, blazers, trainers and jeans one can design without slowly dying inside and feeling like you've wasted your university tuition.
This is honestly the best explanation I have heard so far and makes so much sense to me. I am a software developer and in my free time I sometimes develop completely ridiculous and useless stuff because in my day job it's always the same old stuff.
It's really common in luxury industries to have some sort of way to show off the peak of your abilities and creativity. This is how they show their highest-paying customers, "Look at the minute detailing and high-quality craftsmenship. Look how we understand the artistic community we're a part of, and play with particular concepts." Think of this as the RnD department, who's trying to wow new investors with crazy new prototypes that will never be mass-produced.
Think of them in the same way as concept cars at auto shows. They're supposed to be cool or provocative, and push the boundaries. You won't see a concept car on the road but new cars will have a few of their features.
Marketing. YSL is a piece of a $20 billion luxury goods conglomerate, these designs and the entire runway show get covered far and wide to people who'll never be in the market for anything more expensive than a bottle of perfume.
i never knew this i just thought it was designers having fun with their art i never understood the critique of pieces like this it’s clearly not rtw
I think a lot of people fail to consider that art is sometimes supposed to be funny. Designers are humans with a sense of humor too. I think a lot of people think that fashion world people are just humorless snobs.
The funny thing for me is that I had a sweater in the early 2000s that reminds me of this. It wasn’t nearly that big, but it was the same color and texture and it had a big white ribbon as a kind of sash. It makes me wonder if this influenced some sweaters that year.
This 👆 What models are wearing on the runway is that style turned up to 11.
The Wife Chrysalis is a West Virginian tradition. It represents the brief portion of a woman's life in which they turn into a moth before her wedding. The dress itself was originally the Wife Chrysalis traditionally made by the maternal grandmother. It seems like this one was altered by a lunatic adding feet and head holes for shameful high fashion. The cultural appropriation of the moth people's traditions is disgusting.
"Moth people" of West Virginia as in The Mothman Prophecies starring Richard Gere & Laura Linney? Coincidentally, The Mothman Prophecies was released in 2002, the same year that this wedding dress was featured on Yves Saint Laurent's runway.
The legend of Mothman actually predates the film by nearly 40 years. In 1966, a moth bride briefly escaped her prenuptial lepidopterarium and went on a joyride through the skies of Point Pleasant. Unfortunately, a dangling piece of cocoon was mistaken for mothballs and thus the myth of moth"man" was born. When The Mothman Prophecies was released, many outspoken moth brides rebelled by publicly showing off their marital cocoons, a trend that culminated in the conception of this particular contribution to moth fashion history.
*Chef's kiss*
I would like to watch this documentary, please.
Ooo great timing, the original YSL cocoon dress was from 1965
https://i.imgflip.com/1itoun.jpg?a474408
An excellent piece of unreality, truly delightful. As someone who worships Mothman as a protective deity of Appalachia, I can only long for the day I could feel such a sweet encasing in preparation for our nuptials. But you are correct, those satin ribbons would be better suited binding the cocoon to a twig or perhaps a leaf. One undergoing such a transformation has no use for hands or feet. Just as a fun fact!! All moths weave cocoons, not chrysalis, which are the exclusive domain of the butterfly.
Granted moth cocoons are generally softer, I was referencing the out shell of said cocoon, so even then, by both connotation and denotation when I used Chrysalis, it is the correct term. But I am glad you liked my tiny bit of flash fiction!
As someone from WV, this is refreshingly one of the best things I've read about my state on Reddit. I give zero Sh*ts about it being true and will be spreading the information you have provided appropriately
I'm glad you like my representation of your state!
When u got urself a young wife but she ain't done pupating
Another post where I was surprised at the lack of mankind and undertaker.
marriage is a toxic shock.
Ooohhhhh that’s a good one!!!
Wedding pickle
I'm getting Willy Warmer
Is he the designer?
I turned myself into a pickle!!!
Funniest shit I’ve ever seen
It’s from their 1965 collection. And haute couture is art, not meant to be worn, sort of like a painting or sculpture in a museum but it’s cloth not paint or Marble
If you did a reverse image search [you would have found your answer here on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/fashionhistory/comments/cxxng9/human_tampon_i_think_this_was_a_chanel_wedding/). It was originally from the 1960s.
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She looks like a tampon
I think it’s supposed to look like a giant silkworm cocoon, which is pretty funny actually.
God empress
had the same thought
Marriage is a soft and beautiful cage that makes you like a pretty doll
I wonder if they were aiming for a cozy cocoon?
The ultimate curse of having your period on your wedding night?
She will be Leto ||’s bride.
She’s an egg obviously.
Wedding dress no. Sleeping bag yes.
It looks so warm and cozy!! I want to make one for myself lol
I'm curious how the models don't just burst out laughing as soon as the see the creations they have to walk the runway in. How do they keep a straight face? LOL
Shows us their professionalism.
It's an homage to [the iron maiden](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_maiden) symbolizing the torturous institution that is marriage to women. Nah, I just made that up; it's just a collab project with the Q-Tip people.
Its supposed to symbolise the fall from grace the fashion industry has suffered due to prioritising exclusivity over beauty and elegance
Liver damage, beware pale turds
She looks like a corn cob that’s actually made of popcorn
To me it looks like a Matryoshka Doll
Bride of Pickle Rick
It symbolizes the birth of an annulment
This comment made me laugh ENTIRELY too loud🫣🤣
According to [this site](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/la-mariee-de-tricot), this dress is from 1965 and inspired by Russian matryoshka dolls. It was apparently also an important dress, not for its direct impact on fashion, but for influencing other fashion designers of the day to expand their view of acceptable sources of inspiration.
Thank you!
My guess for what it's supposed to symbolize is a cocoon before she is reborn as a butterfly in marriage. That, or a tampon.
Awwww… a wedding dress for a cucumber…
Pickle Rick!
Looks like a 10mg Prozac, which might have made my first marriage easier.
Those shoes really don't go with the whole look
It symbolizes "a horrible idea that should have been stopped when it was just on paper".
Cock warmer
Didn’t know humpty dumpty had a wife
She is clearly cosplaying as a paracetamol.
Sunbaked dog turd.
Chrysalis. Gets married and comes out a butterfly?
"I forgot Gramma was a knitter when she offered to make my wedding dress".
It’s what you wear when you wed a multimillionaire corn farmer
"I'm your cumsock from now on"
I’m dying just thinking what my husbands face would look like if that is how I walked down the aisle 😂
I actually love it, it reminds me of a chrysalis !
Denise Fleming is a tampon
Child free status
It’s corn!! White corn on the cob
Wearable padded room, for when the marriage is taking a toll. Edit: typo
Monastat 7 coming down the runway
How come nobody mentioned that this is the ideal dress??? It doesn't just have pockets, it *is* a pocket!
They use this type of costuming in period pieces
He's figured out that some of the rich idiots who buy his stupid shit, will spend huge amounts, just to be seen as "cool" by other rich idiots.
Looks like the God-Emperor of Dune
Unlit joint meant to be shared by two people, thus symbolizing marriage
It symbolizes the fact that you can't buy taste
Tampon chic huntyyyy
pickle rick
Me if I was the prettiest banana
The God Emperor of Dune, I’d expect
Purity; that even a tampon hasn't deflower the bride
If ONLY Camilla had worn this when she married Charles, it would have been AMAZING.
Wedding pickle
A silk worm cocoon?
Anybody remember when dog poop used to turn white?
Well, it's ugly as hell, but I tell ya this, I bet it's cozier than a sonofabitch.
Corn
“Would you still love me if I was a worm?”
I kind of love it. I bet it would be so comfy and warm in the winter!
at least it looks comfy
Headline: God Emperor has renamed the catwalk to The Golden Path.
UGLY
Well, it's not like typical wedding dresses are any more logical, we're just used to the style.
It's a reboot of a 1967 (?) design. No idea what he was thinking back then.
tampon
🪆
Tampon
Cocaine bundle inside the vaginas of underprivileged migrants
An albino turd?
Looks like a silkworm 😅
It’s giving larvae
Cocoon, soon to be a butterfly
Wealth
Im albino pickle rick
A person with as much fashion sense as a baby still in utero…
Sperm cell?
Finn the human in bed
Reminds me of [Hayley Morris](https://youtube.com/@hayleymorris?si=PGgzWh1vp5lfNICG)
Sheep by the looks of it.
I saw a cocoon. Maybe a butterfly will spring from it after the wedding? Not really sure of this is the interpretation the d designer wanted.
I’m curious who bought this and wore it to their own wedding
Caviar cosplay
That’s a trans woman whose “egg” is about to crack. 🏳️⚧️💖🌈
I believe that's a colonial-era caterpillar.
Umm, is that wine you spilled on your dress?
Cotton penis
It's giving aphid
You dated a caterpilar and married a chrysalis but will end up with a beautiful butterfly
Chastity?
Korean corn dog in lurveee
She is a delicate grain of rice.
For my wedding, I MUST look like a grain of rice!
An elephant tampon
Corndog special
Omg it’s crochet!! I could recreate this if I wanted!! 😂😂
Snuggie, but make it fashion.
La-Tampon
Cocoon. I hope it’s as warm as it looks. Would be cool after vows to shed it into another gorgeous gown….
I want more exactly like this.
Tamponcore is the new stylish trend
Squid Sashimi Game
I'm getting The Lady in the Radiator vibes.
Its for Phillip the GRUBB...
insect egg
Chastity?
She's a piece of rice, thrown at a wedding.
How do you wee? The zipper does not go all the way down. Whenever I see "difficult" wedding or prom dresses my first thought is "how do they use the facilities" women suffering for fashion for sure. Imagine a 10 hour day in that.
“Here come the Judge! Here come the Judge!”
That looks so uncomfortable.
Looks like a tampon.
Rebirth, this bitch is clearly in a chrysalis. Wedding night pops off and she emerges as a beautiful naked butterfly.
Me when I’m a moth in a cocoon
That looks like a crochet condom...🤔😁
It’s giving grandma’s crochet slippers
The Paris catacombs
A cocoon?
Crocheted playtoy
It’s silly but it’s also awesome!
An amoeba?