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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
Sex doesn’t always sell. Walter Van Beirendonck found that out when he
paired little boys with large bearded men for his fall 1996 Wonderland
collection for his label Wild & Lethal Trash—in a reference to the
“bear” subculture of rugged, heavy-set gay men with facial hair (left).
And Vivienne Westwood caused a storm in 2003 when she sent male models
down the runway with fake breasts under cashmere sweaters.
November 2012
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