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Bernadette Banner
Education:New York University
Occupation:YouTuber
Website:https://bernadettebanner.co.uk/
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Years Active:2018 - Present
Subscribers:1.67 million
Views:132.97 million
Stats Update:20 February 2024
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Silver Year:2019
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Gold Year:2021

Bernadette Banner (born) is an American YouTuber, author, and former costume assistant currently based in London.[1]

Education and previous career

Banner studied in the Design and Production Studio at Tisch School of the Arts. After that, she did an internship for Tony Award-winning costume designer Jenny Tiramani at the School of Historical Dress in London.[2] She formerly worked as a costume assistant for Broadway, and later on a parody preview video of the Broadway musical Frozen.

Interests

She is known for her interest in and promotion of historical dress reconstruction and study of a range of historical fashion periods from the early Medieval era to World War I, with a primary focus on the Victorian and Edwardian eras.[3] [4] She has focused on the lack of quality in modern fast fashion.[5] She is also known for sewing in Original Practice, the art of crafting clothes using historically informed methods and materials.[6] [7]

A significant area investigated by Banner has been the accuracy in reproductions of historical clothing, for example in films like Little Women (2019) and Beauty and the Beast (2017).[8] In addition, she has also been featured by Glamour as commentary for an analysis of Mary Poppins' dressing.[9]

On fast fashion

On her channel, Banner is an active spokesperson against the fast fashion industry, highlighting its environmental devastation and poor labor practices as reason for people to do what they can to abstain from buying clothes from such brands. In place of consuming fast fashion products, Banner has described her own move towards limiting her number of wardrobe pieces to sustainable and long-lasting garments, many of which she has created herself.[10] In 2019, a 15th-century-inspired gown Banner made was poorly copied and sold by an online merchant using Banner's photo[11] in the sales listing. Banner bought the dress and made a public video in which she criticized its poor construction.[12]

Writings

In 2022, she authored a non-fiction book, Make, Sew and Mend, published by Page Street Publishing. It was a BookScan trade paperback bestseller for the third week of May.[13]

Publications

Banner, Bernadette. Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes. United States: Page Street Publishing, 2022.[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gioia. Michael. 2014-12-08. Morgan James, Taylor Louderman, Derek Klena 'Preview' Disney's Low-Budget, Broadway-Bound 'Frozen' Sequel (Video). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160801164507/http://www.playbill.com:80/article/morgan-james-taylor-louderman-derek-klena-preview-disneys-low-budget-broadway-bound-frozen-sequel-video-com-336886 . 2016-08-01 . 2020-12-15. Playbill. en.
  2. Web site: 2020-02-27 . TISCH DRAMA ALUMNA BERNADETTE BANNER CREATES ONLINE BUSINESS STUDYING HISTORICAL DRESS . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210320011556/https://tisch.nyu.edu/drama/news/tisch-drama-alumna-bernadette-banner-creates-online-business-stu . 2021-03-20 . 2020-12-15 . Tisch . en.
  3. Ellis. Emma Grey. 2019-06-25. Spiff Up Your Real-World Skills With Old-Timey YouTube. en-us. Wired. live. 2020-11-29. 1059-1028. 2020-11-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20201108014935/https://www.wired.com/story/historical-youtube/.
  4. Web site: 2020-02-27. Tisch Drama Alumna Bernadette Banner Creates Online Business Studying Historical Dress. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201129051349/https://tsoaweb.home.nyu.edu/drama/news/tisch-drama-alumna-bernadette-banner-creates-online-business-stu. 2020-11-29. 2020-11-29. New York University.
  5. Web site: Meiling. Brittany. 2020-01-31. Home-sewn clothes are making a comeback. But is it too late for dying fabric stores?. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201101035329/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/retail/story/2020-01-31/homemade-clothes-are-making-a-comeback-can-slow-fashion-save-dying. 2020-11-01. 2020-11-29. San Diego Union-Tribune. en-US.
  6. Web site: Hyde. Jen. 2020-01-03. Learning Mindfulness From the Art of Victorian Dressmaking. 2020-11-29. Hyperallergic. en-US. 2020-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20200721180646/https://hyperallergic.com/535278/bernadette-banner-youtube-dress-historian/. live.
  7. The ancient skill that could make you money. 2019-12-02. Timberlake. Howard. Video feature. en. BBC. Partially narrated by Bernadette Banner. 2020-11-29. BBC Reel.
  8. Web site: Mason. Jessica. 2020-10-02. YouTuber Breaks Down Five Movies That Nailed Their Historical Costumes. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201104124705/https://www.themarysue.com/youtuber-breaks-down-five-movies-that-nailed-their-historical-costumes/. 2020-11-04. 2020-12-13. The Mary Sue.
  9. Web site: Fashion Expert Fact Checks Mary Poppins' Wardrobe Glamour - YouTube. 2021-01-25. www.youtube.com.
  10. Web site: Winegarner. Beth. 2021-05-05. Historical Clothing's Comeback. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210517142450/https://craftsmanship.net/historical-clothings-comeback/. 2021-05-17. 2021-06-11. The Craftsmanship Initiative. en-US. Banner is one of the most outspoken opponents of fast fashion, partly because of the industry’s destructive effects on the environment, and partly because of its unethical labor practices. For an alternative, she encourages what is often called “slow fashion”—making durable clothes by hand, and mending or repurposing items when they begin to fall apart..
  11. Web site: Bernadette Banner on Instagram: "Part II of the video diary detailing my (Original Practice!) making process for this c. 1450 gown is now live! Check the link in my bio to…". https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/BldvCZCDbhW . 2021-12-26 . registration. 2021-01-25. Instagram. en.
  12. Ellis. Emma Grey. 2020-02-21. Companies Are Stealing Influencers' Faces. en-us. Wired. live. 2020-11-29. 1059-1028. 2020-11-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20201122170611/https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-instagram-influencers-stolen-faces/.
  13. News: Service . Tribune News . This week's bestsellers . 28 July 2022 . NNY360 . en.
  14. Book: Banner, Bernadette . Make, sew and mend : traditional techniques to sustainably maintain and refashion your clothes . Page Street Publishing . 2022 . 978-1-64567-487-0 . 1317845467.

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