MODELS dared to go daring, shedding all concern in addition to clothes, choosing simply tape for a risqué runway.
Makeshift duct-tape bikinis, designed by the label Black Tape Mission, coated up the fashions as they strutted down the strip at NYFW final weekend.
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The model is the brainchild of self-proclaimed physique tape knowledgeable, Joel Alvarez, a ‘pioneer of the physique tape artwork style’ and the ‘solely physique tape knowledgeable on the planet.’
The occasion, which happened at The Angel Orensanz Basis, featured geometric designs that, whereas artistic, left little or no to the creativeness.
With every step the fashions took, the viewers held its breath, made anxious by the intricate contraptions barely maintaining their personal bits underneath wraps.
For what was most likely one of the revealing exhibits on the runway for the week, previous viewers have seen a lot worse and rather more.
Previous exhibits have featured primarily monochromatic seems with black and white tape and far skimpier designs.
Alvarez’s newest, nevertheless, integrated multi-colored, flashy, and layered designs, akin to a space-themed tape jumpsuit with a wide range of colours.
Different kinds included cross-body “tops” long-established out of tape, tape jewellery, and even sneakers.
Black Tape Mission was impressed by a shoot Alvarez had with a mannequin who requested that he tape her.
Though his first taping left a lot to be desired, he however noticed potential within the challenge.
“The design was so incomplete and very tight,” he mentioned.
“She appeared just like the Michelin Man who misplaced a struggle with rubber bands.
“I stored at it as a result of I stored seeing traces and I discovered the flexibility to go with the physique by including traces and creating detrimental areas that known as to the viewers.”
After a couple of years of expertise taping dancers at golf equipment, the designer had constructed up the talent wanted to work quick and give you designs that lasted the dancers via their units.
“Right now, I’m centered on instructing and educating others by encouraging the world to do this new style of physique artwork with a group of our personal skin-safe physique tape that I’ve curated from my very own tasks prior to now,” he mentioned.
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