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Catwalk Capers!
Ever since Moschino’s hijinks in the mid-eighties—un-PC stunts that involved models crawling down the runway on all fours or carrying watermelons and kettles as handbags—designers have been committed to turning their presentations into provocative media spectacles—and not always with Moschino’s dazzling wit. Click here to see more of W's fashion scandals.
November 2012
Designers get into a lot of trouble when they genuflect at the altar of
religion. Orthodox Jews got their peyos in a twist when Jean Paul
Gaultier presented “Rabbi chic” (left) in 1993. Karl Lagerfeld incurred
the wrath of Muslims when he sent Claudia Schiffer down the runway in
1994 with Koranic verses embroidered on a dress. And Dolce & Gabbana’s
sexy nuns are a perennial provocation.
November 2012
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