Spectators Boo As Fashion Models Sport Nooses And Hoods

Ananova ^ | 9-14-2002

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Spectators boo as fashion models sport nooses and hoods

Models sporting nooses, execution-style hoods and body-covering bandages triggered howls of protest and walkouts at Madrid's most prestigious fashion show.

Carrying rosaries or crucifixes, they paraded - and stumbled - to the sounds of a man's voice saying the Lord's Prayer, 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 last night booed, whistled and called out to the vision-impaired models to guide them after some tripped.

Some in the crowd said the hoods recalled the burqa head-coverings that women in Afghanistan had to wear when the Taliban were in power.

The director of the week-long show, Cuca Solana, got up from her seat and ran backstage in a failed bid to persuade the models to stop the show.

The outfits were the work of fledgling designer David Delfin, 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.

Still, Delfin defended the third fashion collection of his career as "the most feminine one I have ever designed."

Story filed: 13:48 Saturday 14th September 2002

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Idiot!

[CIB-173RDABN]

Speaking later to reporters, a visibly upset Delfin insisted he had not meant to trivialise repression against women.

I believe him, he did not mean to "trivialise repression against women", he just meant to trivialise women.

[anniegetyourgun]

And the idiot models went along with it.

[mewzilla]

Who's sicker: the people who think this stuff up, or the people who pay through the nose for the clothes designed by the people who think this stuff up?

To my mind it's a tie.

[Bon mots]

What stupid women. They should be buried up to their necks in sand and...

...hey, wait a minute...

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[jwh_Denver]

At least the audience made their point very clear. Euoros booing anything like this surprises me.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Maybe they were just trying to get away with the low-budget 'Chelsea' models.

[brat]

"Carrying rosaries or crucifixes, they paraded - and stumbled - to the sounds of a man's voice saying the Lord's Prayer,"

I think it's another attack on Christianity. If they were wearing "burqas" there would have been Muslim chants. This should sober all of you.

[blam]

" Euoros booing anything like this surprises me."

Me too.

[Paul Atreides]

That's right! I would be surprised if this "designer" is straight. We all know how homosexuals like to attack Christianity. To them, a Christian merely voicing disapproval of homosexuality is much worse than the physical attacks that Muslims perpetrate on homosexuals.

[Paul Atreides]

Have you ever noticed that, when it comes to liberals, you cannot make up anything to rival the idiocy they do in real life?

[Cultural Jihad]

I think it's another attack on Christianity. If they were wearing "burqas" there would have been Muslim chants. This should sober all of you.

The thing to consider here is that to moral-liberal humanists, all religions are equal in that they are considered equally invalid and equally contemptible. Christianity is no different to them from Aztec human sacrifice or satanism.

[Consort]

At least 90% of all women's fashions are ugly. The rest of it is pretty good.

[potlatch]

"Carrying rosaries or crucifixes, they paraded - and stumbled - to the sounds of a man's voice saying the Lord's Prayer,"

I think it's another attack on Christianity.

I agree with you. I would have got up and left - wish they had!

[Paul Atreides]

The last time that women's clothes looked good was when a Republican was in the White House. It is so refreshing to see a First Lady who actually lives up to the title "Lady."

[testforecho]

Maybe they were just trying to get away with the low-budget 'Chelsea' models.

Are you referring to the 'higb-beams' in the photo or did you miss that People magazine thread?

[kcvl]

www.davidelfin.com

[Textide]

Is this the same show that Noelle (I think) Bush was supposed to model in, but was too ill? I recall reading something about that last week.

[Brush_Your_Teeth]

At least the audience made their point very clear. Euoros booing anything like this surprises me.

I think they were booing the fact that the woman were wearing crosses not that their heads were covered.

[Wondervixen]

I look at the stuff worn in these "fashion shows" and think "Yea, I'm gonna spend $4,000 and wear THAT thing out in public" or Halloween only comes once a year and it's ridiculous to think of spending that much money on an outfit that you're gonna have to explain to everyone who doesn't understand...Hell, I'm not sure I understand what it is".