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MIAMI

Miami is an architectural wonder. Miami has the largest concentration of Art Deco in the world

and its protection has protected the South Beach skyline.

Architecture enthusiasts know that there are plenty of other interesting architectural styles in Miami.

Styles range from Mediterranean Revival, Tropical Deco to Miami Modern and much more.

By G.  March 19, 2021

Amour Fou & Art Magazine

BERNADETTE BANNER

Amour Fou & Art, August 26, 2020

Bernadette Banner studied at NYU in Tisch Drama's Production & Design Studio. She was fascinated by historical clothing and studied the history of dress and through practical experimentation and reconstruction. She then worked as a design assistant on Broadway and decided to dedicate herself exclusively to historical tailoring.

She researched tirelessly to find out how to implement historical dress techniques to lead a more sustainable lifestyle. She then posted the results on YouTube and the videos quickly became popular. The advertising opportunities on Youtube enabled Bernadette Banner to become self-employed with Youtube and today she can live out her dream of reconstructing historical clothing. At the time of the interview she had 827.000 subscribers.

Amour Fou & Art: Have you wanted to sew historical clothes since you were a child? Can you remember key moments or magic moments?

Bernadette Banner: I first began sewing original practice (using historical methods) in my final year at university; this involved essentially unlearning all previous knowledge of modern sewing, as many of the techniques and objectives are different, if not entirely opposite: for example, modern sewing tends to use hand sewing as a means of attaching finishing bits that can’t be done by machine and therefore tend to be more delicate by nature, whereas in pre-machine original practice methods, the hand sewing itself must have all the strength of a machine stitch.