Things bought further freaky at Gucci ‘s Milan Fashion Week show on Wednesday when designer Alessandro Michele despatched fashions down the runway carrying replicas of their very own heads. The runway was outfitted like an operating room, presumably one run by a mad scientist.
ZIFF: The backstage setting at Fashion Week is fairly frenetic. I started working when I was 14 years outdated each season. Sometimes the backstage photographers are somewhat pushy and try to get their shot and aren’t conscious of the truth that, you already know, we’re standing there basically naked in nothing more than a G-string attempting to vary. And then, you realize, there are every kind of individuals again there, especially when the present ends. The attendees are inclined to pour backstage to congratulate the designer, and we’re left, you know, attempting to placed on our clothes.
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While America was occupied with Brangelina’s romance and the public meltdowns of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, the runways of the ’00s swelled with models, a lot of them from Eastern Europe, who were very younger, very skinny, and totally anonymous to everyone however probably the most diehard style fans. At the same time, Keeping Up With the Kardashians was incubating Kendall Jenner.
ZIFF: Right. Yes. I imply, the mannequin, if she’s appearing in a show and is walking down the runway in clothing, has not implicitly given her consent to be photographed nude when she is, you understand, trying to change backstage. I’m positive later individuals are going to take a look at her as Ivanka Trump because she’s a terrific model and never as a result of she’s Donald and Ivana’s daughter,” Audrey Roatta, an Elite worker, advised VH1.