Look at this!
MADRID, Spain -- Models sporting nooses, execution-style hoods and body-covering bandages brought howls of protest and walkouts at Madrid's most prestigious fashion show.
Carrying rosaries or crucifixes, the models paraded -- and stumbled -- to the sounds of a man's voice saying the "Our Father," followed by a woman panting erotically and iron bars screeching as they opened and closed.
Spectators at the finale of the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show on Friday night booed, whistled and called out to the hooded models to guide them after some tripped.
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The outfits were the work of new designer David Delfin, 31, who went out on stage afterward and put his hands together as if to ask forgiveness.
Speaking later to reporters, a visibly upset Delfin insisted he had not meant to trivialise repression against women.
He said he had got the idea from a painting by Rene Magritte in which two hooded lovers kiss. "My mistake is that this was a theatrical concept and here in the Cibeles show there is no way to do a dress rehearsal," he said.
Nevertheless Delfin defended the third fashion collection of his career as "the most feminine one I have ever designed."
Wow, some people just can't buy a clue. What a maroon.