The Visible Woman Stalks The Catwalk

A visible woman in a creation by designer Manish Arora bedecked with Swarovski crystals walks the London runway. Photo credit: Gareth Cattermole. Link.

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Antinous

It’s right above you at #21. Caching problem?
eustace

Science has tried to bring us fashion this eye-popping, but science has failed. Only mad designers can do it.
EncarnacionFlor

Hey Technicolor operation catsuit is in style man!!! Don’t be such a square.
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eustace

There is much rejoicing in untitled 1.

back to the thread currently in progress…

Fashion. If it not make my brain ‘splode, ur doing it rong.
sammich

It might serve as both high-visibility cycle wear (particularly if the shoulder crystals could light up), and as a handy anatomy guide for first-aiders in the unlikely event that you should be run down.
eustace

my goodness, I read that as “first-GRADERS”; the horror…
echolocate chocolate

Would look better with matching neon-yellow face paint.
TheMadLibrarian

The Borg have assimilated the fashion world.
Bill Albertson

@#1, apparently Slim Goodbody was a stunt double in Superfly. Proof now exists.

Ok, jokes aside about Slim the Pimp…OMG, my eyes are effink bleeding!
ahtran

i was unbelievably underwhelmed about the rest of the collection after seeing this one pop out.
eg. the headdress: how often has that’n been appropriated?
demidan

Tron lives!
cherry shiva

why no skull mask ?
Anonymous

Wow, what a model. Only a true professional can wear this with a straight face.
trr

Ugly, but that would be OK if it were somewhat accurate. It’s not. The heart and lungs are so far off it’s not even funny.
nigelstwin

Clearly Slim Goodbody’s comin’ to get his duds from this chick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Goodbody
Xopher

That has got to be the single ugliest piece of haute couture I’ve ever seen. That poor model! Look at her face! I know it’s hard to tear your eyes from the spectacle of a child’s Halloween costume, blown up to adult size and with crystals stuck all over it, apparently to make it more expensive (since nothing could make it anything other than hideous), passed off as fashion.

Someone tell me this was a Dadaist art piece. Wow. This is amazing.

Wonderfulness: it took my mind off the election long enough to write the above.
dougrogers

Models always look like they want to kill you. Apparently it’s sexy.
bananachair

I would wear that every day of my life. Too motherflippin’ sweet.
Jake0748

ooh… well… if it has Swarovski CRYSTALS on it…

can i get my iphone studded with some?
chgoliz

I know exactly what she’s thinking: this makes me look fat.

Ugly couture, models are used to. But something padded around the hips, waist and arms? Quelle horreur.
trr

I posted a comment on this thread at 12:04 PM yesterday and it appears in my list of comments (http://dynamic.boingboing.net/profile/trr), but not here. How strange.
Strangepork

Slim was Sooo ahead of his time!