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Title: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Mike on Feb 16 06 08:51
Right, like who is actually going to wear this? What venue might be appropriate for this ghastly fashion faux pax? It's from the "ready-to-wear" collection, as if there's any place besides the surface of Mars that would be okay to wear this.
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Model is wearing a design from the Fall,  2006 Gareth Pugh ready-to-wear collection. Photo by Marcio Madeira, via Style.com.

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Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 16 06 09:16
Looks like a dildo.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Future Canadian on Feb 17 06 08:07
Looks like the emporer's new clothes.
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Post by: arggggggggg on Feb 17 06 08:47
if my wife came home wearing that i'd get a divorce, right after i finished laughing myself into a coma.

looks like you'd need to carry an inner-tube patch kit if you went out on the town wearing that thing!
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: God Killed Dashphire on Feb 17 06 09:27
Sometimes Designers put pieces for artistic expression, and  sometimes in an ensemble, one item is actually only supposed to be for wide mass production.  
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: TehBorken on Feb 17 06 09:38
Sometimes Designers put pieces for artistic expression, and  sometimes in an ensemble, one item is actually only supposed to be for wide mass production.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this one won't be mass produced. Plus, there just aren't that many people who have a closet big enough to store it in.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: sasso on Feb 17 06 09:42
Its not that bad.[/DIV]Think of how many smiles you will bring about, heard of therapy fashion? But personally I would add more colour.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Lise on Feb 17 06 09:43
(//vny!://www.misterseed.com/toSTAY/fashion2.jpg)

It's all about art and creativity, no? Ah, you gotta have some fun while you're being creative!
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: TehBorken on Feb 17 06 10:03
Very fashionable, lol.
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Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 17 06 11:01
That would pass in paris for a jacket.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: TehBorken on Feb 17 06 01:10
That would pass in paris for a jacket.

That's the same outfit I usually wear when I play Naked Twister®.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: P.C. on Feb 17 06 01:24
Some of those designers are basket cases.

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Post by: P.C. on Feb 17 06 01:26
[img title="French Tickler" src="vny!://www.shoeblogs.com/images/port2.jpg"].
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: kitten on Feb 17 06 02:09
That orange one is ghastly!  It looks as though the model has a bad problem with cellulite.
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Post by: P.C. on Feb 17 06 02:25
They're dreadful, kitten..........I'm wondering what their point is.  I guess I've never understood that part of the 'fashion' world.  (nor am I sure I want to)  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c022.gif" border=0]
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Witch on Feb 17 06 02:41
Those particular fashion designers are very wealthy.

Apparently there are a few of us around who are idiots
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: kitten on Feb 17 06 02:57
  I've occasionally come across one of those fashion shows and watched in morbid fascination.  Are there really women out there that think they would look irresistible in those creations?  Enough so that they are willing to shell out thousands of dollars for the privilege of looking truly idiotic?[/DIV]  [A href="vny!://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824DFCA" target=_blank][img alt=ROTFL src="vny!://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_11_6.gif[/img][/A]





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Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: P.C. on Feb 17 06 03:16
Do you remember a 'mime' type of act, I believe maybe from Switzerland (I'm guessing). Anyway they were called Mummenchanz (sp?)  They performed weird and wonderful comical acts.  They are hard to describe.   (I am actually going somewhere with this...not far, mind you)  THAT'S what that orange outfit reminds me of.  (all of which means nothing if you don't remember Mummenchanz) [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/e058.gif" border=0]

(please please, somebody out there remember them...lol)
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: kitten on Feb 17 06 03:29
Sure I remember them.  I just can't remember when I saw them.  (I mean which decade!)  I think it was sometime in the '90s.  
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: P.C. on Feb 17 06 03:33
Phewwww !  Thank goodness for you, kitten.

I wonder if they got their costumes from the designers reject pile.[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/d030.gif" border=0]
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: kitten on Feb 17 06 03:48
Actually, the designers looked to them to provide them with ideas.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Future Canadian on Feb 18 06 12:45
It'd be kind of scary to know about the fashion world. That means you might start to "understand" the above pieces, and defend them to your giggling friends.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: P.C. on Feb 18 06 01:03
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We ARE kind of idiots, when you think about it.  We wear things that are uncomfortable, that make our feet HURT, that don't suit our individual body types, all for the sake of fashion.
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Future Canadian on Feb 18 06 01:08
Do you remember a 'mime' type of act, I believe maybe from Switzerland (I'm guessing). Anyway they were called Mummenchanz (sp?)  They performed weird and wonderful comical acts.  They are hard to describe.   (I am actually going somewhere with this...not far, mind you)  THAT'S what that orange outfit reminds me of.  (all of which means nothing if you don't remember Mummenchanz) [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/e058.gif" border=0][/DIV] [/DIV](please please, somebody out there remember them...lol) I remember them! They were my favorite Muppet Show episode as a kid, and we just watched it onDVD.  
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: P.C. on Feb 18 06 01:16
OMG....I've be racking my brain all day trying to figure out where these memories of this 'act' came from, and THAT'S IT !!!!!!!
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Future Canadian on Feb 18 06 01:21
Yeah, they did the act with masks made from pads of paper on them for different expressions, and made some critters. The best act was two characters that had masks made out of clay that they would manipulate (their own and each others).
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Post by: P.C. on Feb 18 06 01:29
Yea....I was thinking about it today after the memory 'resurfaced', and a lot of their acts came back....and I remember that one.  They were good, I wonder what became of them ?
Title: Re: Fashion Designers must think we're idiots
Post by: Gopher on May 08 06 11:49
Sportsdude wrote:
 Looks like a dildo............................brutally abused!