![]() ![]() Wasn’t it cold up there? “Honey, cold is an understatement,” Ms. Raymond: “I kind of just became the character, whoever she is.” She was alternately steely and delicate, occasionally raising her arms above her head with an elegant flair, or smiling at Ms. “I was so nervous,” she later said backstage, but it didn’t show. Hadid’s Paris Fashion Week schedule didn’t allow for a rehearsal the runway show was her first time being sprayed. The stand-in couldn’t control her shivering on the already chilly runway, as the even-colder spray-on material hit her skin, and as she breathed in its thick, glue-like odor. Coperni had only about five opportunities to practice the performance, including once the night before the show, with a model standing in for Ms. We wanted something more humble” - something to reflect the team effort behind the stunt. Vaillant said he felt “it would have been a bit pretentious for Sébastien to do it. Then she cut the hem and one long leg slit into the fabric. Hadid’s newly materialized dress as it was drying. She used her hands to help shape the straps and neckline of Ms. Hadid’s spraying, Charlotte Raymond, Coperni’s head of design, walked onstage. (Fashion is one medical bandages and casts are others.) Torres, who founded Fabrican in 2003, has long been exploring ways to use spray-on fabric. Hadid as she stood on a small square illuminated stage in the middle of the runway. Vaillant said: “It’s totally different.” Instead of robots, for example, there was the inventor Manel Torres and a member of his Fabrican team spraying Ms. The spray-on dress was not in homage to the McQueen moment, Mr. For his spring 1999 show, the designer Lee Alexander McQueen had two robots spray-paint a dress worn by Shalom Harlow. It can be hung and washed, or put back into the bottle of its original solution to regenerate, according to Coperni’s chief executive, Arnaud Vaillant.īut really, the point of the dress was the drama of its creation - in line with fashion’s rich tradition of live-on-the-runway showmanship. The dress could be taken off like any other tight, slightly stretchy one: a process of peeling off and shimmying out. Hadid’s dress isn’t strictly sellable (or rewearable, for anyone without her exact body measurements), Coperni does plan to display it in its showroom. ![]()
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