How to put a fashion model in the shadows: Gigi and Bella Hadid are dressed like furniture, while Italian designers Moschino draw inspiration from a lamp, chest of drawers and grandfather’s watch
If you tell a catwalk supermodel that she looks like a lamp, you can – under normal circumstances – easily see the observer turn off the lights.
But not, it seems, at Milan Fashion Week, where a show by Italian designers Moschino breathed life into the furniture.
Among the items that inspired Moschino were a lamp, a chest of drawers and a grandfather clock.
26-year-old model Gigi Hadid wore a bronze dress that looked like a chest of drawers and earrings with keys attached to them
Another model was photographed in what looked like a lampshade on her head
Another model was wearing what looked like Santa’s watch at Milan Fashion Week
The 26-year-old model Gigi Hadid wore a bronze dress that looked like a chest of drawers and earrings with keys attached to them.
Her 25-year-old sister Bella appeared in a black dress with a slit in the shape of a buckle on her chest, lined with detailed gold stitching.
Another model wore a blue floral dress with a lampshade on her head.
Others wore a dress with a grandfather’s watch, a gold dress with a harp attached, and a garment made of Persian rug.
The outfits were similar to the movie Beauty and the Beast, in which the furniture comes to life. Moschino’s creative director, Jeremy Scott, 46, said: “These are all things you’ll find in an old mansion with money. The wealth, the gilding, the chests of Louis XIV …
To add to the surreal experience, the set of the fashion show is based on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 film: A Space Odyssey from 1968.
Another model was wearing a screen during Milan Fashion Week