Models wear nothing but tape on New York Fashion Week runway
They have been scorching and sticky.
Fashions redefined “intercourse tape” after strutting the New York Vogue Week Sunday catwalk in nothing however risqué apparel composed completely of various sorts of adhesive.
The recent and sticky showcase was a part of the sold-out Black Tape Project, an unconventional sartorial initiative dreamed up by self-proclaimed physique tape “pioneer” Joel Alvarez.
The so-called “King of Tape” premiered his newest line of tape-based swimwear on the Angel Orensanz Middle in Manhattan Sunday night time, mesmerizing audiences together with his minimalist designs.
This newest show went even skimpier than traditional — with the spartan black-and-white swimsuits barely concealing the fashions’ nether areas like dwell motion censor bars.
One of many fashions our bodies’ was crisscrossed with spike-studded black tape — a salacious tackle the canine collar design– with black X’s performing as pasties. Others had their woman elements obscured by nothing however a skimpy tape “flower” that was unattached to the remainder of the getup.
With a purpose to forestall discomfort — and maybe an inadvertent bikini wax upon removing — Alvarez claims he makes use of “solely skin-safe creative physique tape” in his clingy couture.
Per the Black Tape Venture’s web site, the unconventional patterns have been impressed by an encounter the designer had whereas working as a rookie vogue photographer in 2008. The budding designer was reportedly working with a mannequin who “recommended I exploit electrical tape on her for the final look,” he stated.
Whereas Alvarez initially had no thought why she’d need to do that, he determined to oblige by wrapping her in black electrical tape, he recounted of his maiden bikini design.
“Thoughts you, she appeared like two Christmas hams wrapped in rubber bands after I was finished!” mused the fashionista, who at the moment boasts over 630,000 followers on Instagram.
Quick ahead just a few years and it appeared that Black Tape was sticking round. By 2012, the tape maven started promoting his “artistic companies to native night time golf equipment in Miami” and now showcases his designs at venues throughout the globe, per the style agency’s web site.
Alvarez even permits aspiring fashionistas to check out the designs on themselves: He sells rolls of adhesive on the Black Tape Venture’s web site, the place they value from $9.99 for black physique tape to $29.99 for different colours.
“I’m centered on educating and educating others by encouraging the world to do this new style of physique artwork with a set of our personal pores and skin protected physique tape that I’ve curated from my very own initiatives previously,” he writes on the positioning. “This is similar tape that I exploit every single day for my dwell efficiency designs and that you simply see in my portfolio.”
