I also think a parallel can be drawn between the seeds inside the patch and the wearer inside the jacket. It's as if Final Home is saying the wearer (dressed to look like kenaf and corn) is one and the same as the seeds inside the patch (a jacket of sorts for the seeds), deserving of the same kind of sartorial care and attention. The literal seeds are useful for continuing humanity, but equally is the wearer who plants seeds in such hopeless circumstances where tomorrow isn’t a guaranteed. The wearer is not just some silly little guy carrying around some silly little seeds. By putting on the jacket, the wearer becomes a seed in and of themselves, capable of sustaining humanity's dim future. Given that the corn and kenaf seeds' "final home" in the ground isn't where something goes to die but where something goes to be born, this idea of a "final home" (which I initially took to mean a grave) is not defeatist but determined. Perhaps more pretentiously put, "final home" means "life at all costs, even death."
This reminds me vividly of Octavia E Butler's book Parable of the Sower, and its sequel - in it a group of people calling themselves "Earthseed" survive a near-apocalypse and try to regenerate humanity. If those books were a garment, it'd be this jacket.
@@christianluz602 It is definitely interesting, and I think it's a good, gripping read - the prose is good, the characters are compelling (to me). It was written in the early 90s and predicted some things very well. However, it is absolutely a capital-D dystopia, and is pretty rough at points. It's not unremittingly miserable, but it's intense, your mileage may vary
Corn is actually really hard to breed and take to seed - I only learned this a couple days ago from my sister, who is a huge plant and gardening nerd. According to my sister (and the backyard plant breeding book she's reading), corn is like the Spanish Hapsburgs of the vegetable kingdom: they get inbred fast. I don't super understand it, but the corn in the patch (if it's still viable - seeds get old, particularly when they're not refrigerated or frozen; this is why the Svalbard seed bank is in upper Scandinavia and not in the tropics) is unlikely to produce a viable second or third generation. If people want to know more, I can hunt down the book and share title/author
The corn seeds in the Jacket are for the unlikely case you find yourself in the Radius of an Atomic Bomb which turns the corn into popcorn so you can have a last snack
Great vid as always. Wish you didn't shy away from talking about the resemblance to the clothes that homeless people wear! The overlaps between homeless clothing and military/prepper wear are really interesting in how they kinda feed into one another (army surplus stores, veterans coming back from service dirt poor, or joining the military to escape homelessness). It's a sticky topic, and I get how it would've bogged down the video, but I'd definitely be interested in hearing your thoughts on the topic more in depth in the future!
I think the hourglass symbol is actually a basic silhouette of a house 🏠 (home) both inverted upside down if you look closely…. The fonts cover the bottom part of the house silhouette
One thing I noticed when looking at the logo is that the little triangle shapes from the hourglass also have a small line that makes it look like a house. Thus drawing a parallel to the name and concept of the brand.
wow thank you for introducing me to this brand. I love techwear type clothing and I will def look for a jacket similar to the one you showed in this video.
Love this vid , also the idea of having seeds of such multi useful plant in such clothing is just says how much the makers cares and you letting us know says how much u care as well . 😢❤
The corn seeds are possibly an older variety of Indian corn? In Iroquois storytelling the corn is cultivated for an upcoming time when crops fail (presently Native Communities cultivate it not only for food but it's a way of saving genetic diversity in this age of Monsanto) I am grokking on how the lining dictates the seed choice offering in the patch. Very cool. My first interpretation of the Final Home logo was two houses, situated roof-top to roof-top. But I'm also enjoying how it ties into the British extinction group. My first guess at what the topic of the vid was, based on the title, was the utilitarian esthetic that comes about when creating modern safety gear. And, in a way, it was... of course the 60's Mods gravitated to the Korean army wear - it was what was cheep and plentiful in the second-hand shops and could be subverted into an anti-war stance. Which got funneled into a fashion deep dive about surviving a nuclear holocaust. Which was a trending thing at that point in culture around the world when the brand was created. The Cold War was never cold. Except, maybe in Korea apparently... - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
OKAYYYYY DEEP CUT The logo for final home, the hourglass-radiation symbol thingy you rightly said has echoes with Extinction Rebellion. After seeing your video, I realised that this XR logo has may have served as inspiration for something else equally cool. Avariation of the shapes in that logo makes up the logo for the "Monarch' scientific organisation featured prominently in the modern godzilla/king kong movies. The Monarch org basically tracks these giant kaiju and monitors their activities because it sees the monsters of having potential for causing human extinction. ALSO deep cut, the 'Monarch' name in in the franchise is a nod to Mothra, a monarch butterfly butterfly/moth hybrid kaiju which usually symbolises life, death, rebirth and natural lifecycles. So so many realisations after watching each of your videos. KEEP UP THE AWESOMENESSSSSSS
Interesting af as always On the final home logo i think there are also two houses (the triangles being the roofs) which can be a visual pun (house / home) !
I thought i listende to an audio book about the beauty of story telling cloths and in this chapter it was about the end of humanity and the felling and struggle that the last remaining people went through. It wasn’t just about garments and that is what i absolutely admirer about you how explain seemingly simple clothes and tell the full picture and every little detail. Pleas do more videos where you just talk about garments.
It was years that I was thinking about a jacket that can be stuffed with newspapers, I had to knew that someone somewhere thought about it! Thanks Bliss for bringing the knowledge to us!!!
Awesome bliss! Really enjoyed your hard work and of course amusing commentary! Love ultra utilitarian design and the beauty that’s created when function is key. The corn seeds were such a cool detail to that jacket and I loved the point you made on how English and Japanese typography is sometimes used for sheer aesthetic value. Love u bliss!
Hello Thanks for this video on FH, if I may add you did not mentioned FH was a part of Issey Miyake's Inc, and the designer was one of M. Miyake's assistant. I saw his first show in Paris early 90's. Models walking on egg shelves and the soundtrack was heartbeat and Nine Inch Nails ... almost in the dark !. Congrats on your videos, warm regards
🌽 this video was sneakily a favorite! I’m going to be giving my less complex and meagerly conceptual military jackets the side eye throughout the warm months at a minimum - and more likely this jacket will live rent free in my head for some time to come. Thank you…
Amazing Video. Maybe a full runway Analysis in the future? I've only seen one of their runways on youtube so I'm not sure exactly other ones. But again lol, great video!
Heritage seed varieties at 10 years old likely still have that spark of life in them. Gardening homework for Mr. Bliss. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Just wanted to add that the logo is obviously two houses one upright and the other one inverted on its head on top of it haha thought it was obvious though the hourglass is also interesting
learned so much! vit c! and yes if a certain plant wasn't made to look bad years ago by a nespaper company, we'd have cut down far fewer trees. thanx, bliss! did u put the seeds back into the patch or plant them?
They have to go back in the patch. I still don’t know how many of these jackets were made and I want to keep it as intact as possible if this is the only version of the jacket they produced 💫💫
Hi Bliss. Love your videos and the story of this brand and jacket. But the "gibberish" is actually a military/stencil like font which reads "UKAWA NAOHIRO".
They looked like that to me as well. The translation of the designer’s description of that jacket did include the word “corn“. However, it’s so complicated translating things from Japanese to English, there may have been a miss translation. I speak no Japanese at all, so I don’t have a way of knowing. But again, yeah, it looks like maize to me too 💫💫
Just imagine you are travelling international and some customs agent/security x-ray your jacket and want to know what "organic material" is hidden in your jacket ... Probably illegal to import the Jackt into Australia and New Zealand because of the seeds and their biosecurity. Pretty sure the Logo is not an hour glass but indeed 2 houses or 2 arrows that meet at the last home center.
Why are we saying “kenaf” specifically?! I had to look it up cuz .2% of my city barely has middle eastern influence. Are we avoiding the word “cannabis” for the algorithm’s sake? Or is “kenaf” actually what it’s supposed to be??
I really like this video and the concept of this jacket but the statement that you don’t need a home if you have the right clothing is simply wrong and kinda invalidates the experience of homeless people. The need for shelter is a basic human need and no garment or whatever could ever replace that even if it’s really practical.
@@BlissFoster Noo I didn’t think that, you just quoted someone who said something in that direction, but I think you can simply read that wrong so its just the thought that popped into my mind about that one sentence, which I felt was kind of important to specify. I still think its a really good and interesting video!! :)
(Sorry, this isn't very relevant in a fashion video, but if it wasn't for the US in South Korea, today there would be just one Korea, and it would be North Korea. I understand that war/interventionism/imperialism/Cold War by proxy are all issues to take seriously, and we shouldn't dampen the terribly cruel reality of war. But at the same time, as ugly as it is, war is still a necessity. Was it necessary for the US to go to Korea? Maybe not. Was it a good thing that they did? For sure. And if today Korea is still split along the lines of the aftermath of the conflict, it's certainly not the US's fault, or South Korea's fault. I think the German reunification proved that enough. I am the first to abhor war and its effects, but to prone a general, blind non-involvement in conflict is more damaging in the short and long term than actually getting involved in the right conflict. Ukraine proves that today, and the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan too.)
Idk being a uni studfent in a city i have lots of irl fashion frirnds. Ik you're just tryna drive patreon but the idea that such a love for fashion is mostly built without a community thst reflects that love back to you seems kinda negative to perpetuate . Dope video as always though im just being pedandtic
Omg this is like the old days when bliss just showed clothes that he loved and spoke bout them for 10 min!!! Love this!
Ah I think I remember you talking about Final Home years ago, very cool
Same
At the beginning of the video I realized that I would love to listen to you describe any piece of garment with this amount of detail
highly agree
Once you die the body and clothing decompose and it grows the corn and canna from your own remnants
I also think a parallel can be drawn between the seeds inside the patch and the wearer inside the jacket. It's as if Final Home is saying the wearer (dressed to look like kenaf and corn) is one and the same as the seeds inside the patch (a jacket of sorts for the seeds), deserving of the same kind of sartorial care and attention. The literal seeds are useful for continuing humanity, but equally is the wearer who plants seeds in such hopeless circumstances where tomorrow isn’t a guaranteed. The wearer is not just some silly little guy carrying around some silly little seeds. By putting on the jacket, the wearer becomes a seed in and of themselves, capable of sustaining humanity's dim future. Given that the corn and kenaf seeds' "final home" in the ground isn't where something goes to die but where something goes to be born, this idea of a "final home" (which I initially took to mean a grave) is not defeatist but determined. Perhaps more pretentiously put, "final home" means "life at all costs, even death."
Wow damn! Great interpretation 🦾
This reminds me vividly of Octavia E Butler's book Parable of the Sower, and its sequel - in it a group of people calling themselves "Earthseed" survive a near-apocalypse and try to regenerate humanity. If those books were a garment, it'd be this jacket.
@@cjemmeson109sounds interesting, is it a good read? Or just meh?
@@christianluz602 It is definitely interesting, and I think it's a good, gripping read - the prose is good, the characters are compelling (to me). It was written in the early 90s and predicted some things very well. However, it is absolutely a capital-D dystopia, and is pretty rough at points. It's not unremittingly miserable, but it's intense, your mileage may vary
Corn is actually really hard to breed and take to seed - I only learned this a couple days ago from my sister, who is a huge plant and gardening nerd. According to my sister (and the backyard plant breeding book she's reading), corn is like the Spanish Hapsburgs of the vegetable kingdom: they get inbred fast. I don't super understand it, but the corn in the patch (if it's still viable - seeds get old, particularly when they're not refrigerated or frozen; this is why the Svalbard seed bank is in upper Scandinavia and not in the tropics) is unlikely to produce a viable second or third generation. If people want to know more, I can hunt down the book and share title/author
i also noticed that half of the final home logo kinda looks like how one would draw a simple house
Can't believe you missed that the Final Home logo shows the shape of a house/home. Also could be construed as arrows.
It's two houses, one inverted
An arrow pointing to a house
The corn seeds in the Jacket are for the unlikely case you find yourself in the Radius of an Atomic Bomb which turns the corn into popcorn so you can have a last snack
Would love a more detailed video on final home, best concept in fashion for sure! Great vid :-)
Ditto!
Great vid as always. Wish you didn't shy away from talking about the resemblance to the clothes that homeless people wear! The overlaps between homeless clothing and military/prepper wear are really interesting in how they kinda feed into one another (army surplus stores, veterans coming back from service dirt poor, or joining the military to escape homelessness). It's a sticky topic, and I get how it would've bogged down the video, but I'd definitely be interested in hearing your thoughts on the topic more in depth in the future!
I think the hourglass symbol is actually a basic silhouette of a house 🏠 (home) both inverted upside down if you look closely…. The fonts cover the bottom part of the house silhouette
please please please more final home content!!! this was amazing
Haha probably not for a while, but I’m so glad you liked it! I’ve wanted to make that episode for a while, so glad it resonated with you 💫💫
One thing I noticed when looking at the logo is that the little triangle shapes from the hourglass also have a small line that makes it look like a house. Thus drawing a parallel to the name and concept of the brand.
wow thank you for introducing me to this brand. I love techwear type clothing and I will def look for a jacket similar to the one you showed in this video.
Love this vid , also the idea of having seeds of such multi useful plant in such clothing is just says how much the makers cares and you letting us know says how much u care as well . 😢❤
The corn seeds are possibly an older variety of Indian corn? In Iroquois storytelling the corn is cultivated for an upcoming time when crops fail (presently Native Communities cultivate it not only for food but it's a way of saving genetic diversity in this age of Monsanto) I am grokking on how the lining dictates the seed choice offering in the patch. Very cool. My first interpretation of the Final Home logo was two houses, situated roof-top to roof-top. But I'm also enjoying how it ties into the British extinction group.
My first guess at what the topic of the vid was, based on the title, was the utilitarian esthetic that comes about when creating modern safety gear. And, in a way, it was... of course the 60's Mods gravitated to the Korean army wear - it was what was cheep and plentiful in the second-hand shops and could be subverted into an anti-war stance. Which got funneled into a fashion deep dive about surviving a nuclear holocaust. Which was a trending thing at that point in culture around the world when the brand was created. The Cold War was never cold. Except, maybe in Korea apparently...
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
that's a very creative idea for a jacket...having some seeds for the apocalypse
OKAYYYYY DEEP CUT
The logo for final home, the hourglass-radiation symbol thingy you rightly said has echoes with Extinction Rebellion. After seeing your video, I realised that this XR logo has may have served as inspiration for something else equally cool. Avariation of the shapes in that logo makes up the logo for the "Monarch' scientific organisation featured prominently in the modern godzilla/king kong movies. The Monarch org basically tracks these giant kaiju and monitors their activities because it sees the monsters of having potential for causing human extinction.
ALSO deep cut, the 'Monarch' name in in the franchise is a nod to Mothra, a monarch butterfly butterfly/moth hybrid kaiju which usually symbolises life, death, rebirth and natural lifecycles.
So so many realisations after watching each of your videos.
KEEP UP THE AWESOMENESSSSSSS
also yes eco subject matter 😍🤗 and i love similar jackets and have found a few iterations while thrifting 🔥
Thank You Bliss !
Interesting af as always
On the final home logo i think there are also two houses (the triangles being the roofs) which can be a visual pun (house / home) !
appreciate you for putting me on
I thought i listende to an audio book about the beauty of story telling cloths and in this chapter it was about the end of humanity and the felling and struggle that the last remaining people went through. It wasn’t just about garments and that is what i absolutely admirer about you how explain seemingly simple clothes and tell the full picture and every little detail.
Pleas do more videos where you just talk about garments.
It was years that I was thinking about a jacket that can be stuffed with newspapers, I had to knew that someone somewhere thought about it!
Thanks Bliss for bringing the knowledge to us!!!
Awesome bliss! Really enjoyed your hard work and of course amusing commentary! Love ultra utilitarian design and the beauty that’s created when function is key. The corn seeds were such a cool detail to that jacket and I loved the point you made on how English and Japanese typography is sometimes used for sheer aesthetic value. Love u bliss!
Seven seeds of each. Meaning?
In any case interesting. Thanks for excellent content! Always something to learn.
Yes! I literally noticed that in my final watch through of this episode! I wish I had thought to include that and talk about it a little bit.
Omg i loved this video, I learned a lot and love how you can describe and investigate clothes in general, I’m really inspired ❤
I think the giberish on the patch reads "UKAWA NAOHIRO", just in in a crazy font
Its so cool thanks for introducing us bliss
what an interesting video, Im a Fashion Designer and Id have LOVED to had you as a professor at my University, such good content 👏
Hello Thanks for this video on FH, if I may add you did not mentioned FH was a part of Issey Miyake's Inc, and the designer was one of M. Miyake's assistant.
I saw his first show in Paris early 90's. Models walking on egg shelves and the soundtrack was heartbeat and Nine Inch Nails ... almost in the dark !. Congrats on your videos, warm regards
I was half alseep at 4 am just listening until I noticed his tshirt.....I am never forgetting this video now
🌽 this video was sneakily a favorite! I’m going to be giving my less complex and meagerly conceptual military jackets the side eye throughout the warm months at a minimum - and more likely this jacket will live rent free in my head for some time to come. Thank you…
Amazing Video. Maybe a full runway Analysis in the future? I've only seen one of their runways on youtube so I'm not sure exactly other ones. But again lol, great video!
This video understood many assignments and I've been so curious about Final Home and this was thee best breakdown
P.S.
I love your choice of pants
Please plant the seeds! I would like to see a plant update!
Heritage seed varieties at 10 years old likely still have that spark of life in them. Gardening homework for Mr. Bliss.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
The logo is a home, inverted to look like a warning sign.
I got this jacket a few months ago, still my favourite piece.
where????
@@silk3142got it second hand from an online marketplace called Vinted for 120 euros
Final home is truly goated
Beautiful, the lining alone is gorgeous...*Throws Kapital Ring Coat away*
Just wanted to say this is one of my favourite videos by you and it deserves waaaay more views (got me looking up final home on Grailed now lmao)
i love the idea. it's so complete.
Holy cannoli Final Home! What a blast from the past.
I remember you talking about the seeds in the patch in a previous video. So cool to see you open the patch
Just wanted to add that the logo is obviously two houses one upright and the other one inverted on its head on top of it haha thought it was obvious though the hourglass is also interesting
haha jacket is literally a corn on the cob, cant believe you actually opened it after all these years
Honestly sounds like my favorite jacket too haha
In the logo i see an arrow pointing down to a house. Ultimate house.
quality content sir, as usual. quality content. ❤
learned so much! vit c! and yes if a certain plant wasn't made to look bad years ago by a nespaper company, we'd have cut down far fewer trees. thanx, bliss! did u put the seeds back into the patch or plant them?
They have to go back in the patch. I still don’t know how many of these jackets were made and I want to keep it as intact as possible if this is the only version of the jacket they produced 💫💫
New episode idea! Try to grow the seeds into plants
respect for actually rippin that puppy and looking😂
3:40 I love armpit openings in clothes and wish it was more common
Hi Bliss. Love your videos and the story of this brand and jacket.
But the "gibberish" is actually a military/stencil like font which reads "UKAWA NAOHIRO".
I love being corrected, thanks so much 💫💫
Weed and corn, what more could a man need
which piece is ,more versatile for fall, a black bomber jacket, or a black long wool coat??
I believe those seeds were “Maize”
They looked like that to me as well. The translation of the designer’s description of that jacket did include the word “corn“. However, it’s so complicated translating things from Japanese to English, there may have been a miss translation. I speak no Japanese at all, so I don’t have a way of knowing. But again, yeah, it looks like maize to me too 💫💫
Just imagine you are travelling international and some customs agent/security x-ray your jacket and want to know what "organic material" is hidden in your jacket ... Probably illegal to import the Jackt into Australia and New Zealand because of the seeds and their biosecurity. Pretty sure the Logo is not an hour glass but indeed 2 houses or 2 arrows that meet at the last home center.
F*****g brilliant. I want one.
Great piece of a great 🥧
waiting for you to review the last Pharell Louis Vuitton show and analysis
Unreal details
Also t shirt who made it it? Tell me now. Where was the first credits u do in all the other vids
Good Video thanks
The logo is a house mirrored, that looks like a arrow mirrored, that is what I can see. Not the hour glass. But I can be wrong.
just saw two roofs in the logo at first glance actually...
Ah yes, the corn jacket
very optimistic
Is it just me or am I not getting notifications for ur videos
Whered you get the shirt lmao? It's beautiful
Yeah but there is also two silhouettes of homes in the logo
Awsome
aint no way cornhub is a sponsor of this video no kyap
11:45 noooooo
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No Pharrell LV video ?
I don’t have anything to add to the conversation tbh 🤷 I never want to make a video where I’m just repeating the work of others.
cool
are you going to cover yeezy season 10?
I don’t know what I would cover 🤷
wow
also the final home logo is a little house 🏠
Why are we saying “kenaf” specifically?! I had to look it up cuz .2% of my city barely has middle eastern influence. Are we avoiding the word “cannabis” for the algorithm’s sake? Or is “kenaf” actually what it’s supposed to be??
Nvm I continue watching … 😑
It’s actually kenaf 💫💫
I’m actually dumb 👌 just found your content a couple days ago and I’ve been loving it. Keep it up !
But...the logo is two houses touching roof tips 😬
And the gibberish at the top of the patch just says Ukawa Naohiro, but stylized
I am compelled to share that living with ADD has helped me immensely with my consumption of the information presented by our wonderful host. 💖
I have very intense and loud ADHD too!
Wouldn't it be fucked up if it was just silica beads
I’m telling you, I was so scared 😆😆
opium bliss foster???
This jacket is as old as me
I really like this video and the concept of this jacket but the statement that you don’t need a home if you have the right clothing is simply wrong and kinda invalidates the experience of homeless people. The need for shelter is a basic human need and no garment or whatever could ever replace that even if it’s really practical.
It doesn’t seem like the designer is implying that you don’t need a home. They’re jackets meant for emergencies 💫💫
@@BlissFoster Noo I didn’t think that, you just quoted someone who said something in that direction, but I think you can simply read that wrong so its just the thought that popped into my mind about that one sentence, which I felt was kind of important to specify. I still think its a really good and interesting video!! :)
Ahhh gotcha 🦾💫💫
You should change the title to “this runway jacket could save your life”
“Could save humanity from extinction”
(Sorry, this isn't very relevant in a fashion video, but if it wasn't for the US in South Korea, today there would be just one Korea, and it would be North Korea. I understand that war/interventionism/imperialism/Cold War by proxy are all issues to take seriously, and we shouldn't dampen the terribly cruel reality of war. But at the same time, as ugly as it is, war is still a necessity. Was it necessary for the US to go to Korea? Maybe not. Was it a good thing that they did? For sure. And if today Korea is still split along the lines of the aftermath of the conflict, it's certainly not the US's fault, or South Korea's fault. I think the German reunification proved that enough. I am the first to abhor war and its effects, but to prone a general, blind non-involvement in conflict is more damaging in the short and long term than actually getting involved in the right conflict. Ukraine proves that today, and the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan too.)
Idk being a uni studfent in a city i have lots of irl fashion frirnds. Ik you're just tryna drive patreon but the idea that such a love for fashion is mostly built without a community thst reflects that love back to you seems kinda negative to perpetuate . Dope video as always though im just being pedandtic
Looks like iam gonna be fashion lonely 😂 cos I don't have card or PayPal account ✌🏽 anyways anyone wanna be fashion friends?👀
don't go through an airport with that.
Super cool!
Fashion is for clowns. Period.
im actuallly a huge enthusiast of cornhub. it taught me many ways to plow corn and really get the juices out of them
yeah, i can not dr.stone my way back with corn