With those, there was wonder and delight. Other designers have done the idea of clothes coming into being on the runway with less darkness, like Hussein Chalayan’s robot dress and Martin Margiela, with his melting colored ice cubes. It is a beautiful image but it is also a brutal one. That moment always read to me as a statement about McQueen's tortured creativity, the way that creation is violence inflicted upon the materials (and people) tasked with carrying out the vision. She was assaulted by two robot arms that pelted the dress with gray and green spray paint as she spun. In a similar setup, Shalom Harlow stood in the center of a box, wearing a strapless white dress that flared out like a skirt, with a belt above the bust and one slightly lower in the back. Several online observers have said the stunt called to mind the finale of Alexander McQueen's Spring 1999 show. The internet has been in raptures over it ever since. The material gelled within minutes into a rubbery white solid, forming a cocktail dress with straps that fell sweetly off the shoulder. She was spray painted with a white substance called Fabrican, which was invented almost two decades ago, by two bros in black. The experience that led me to this unexpected thought was the finale of Friday night's Coperni show, where, as you’ve no doubt seen all over Instagram, Bella Hadid walked onto a mirrored platform wearing a pair of nude underwear, with one arm placed demurely across her breasts. This morning I awoke with a question throbbing in my head: should fashion be stupid?
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