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Fall fashions? Your slip is showing…
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Johnson, get your butt into my office! You call yourself a news photographer? You’ve covered the fashion show all week, and not a single shot of a model falling down!
Well thankfully it’s been a pretty safe show, Boss…
Thankfully? You think readers wanna see skinny chicks standing upright in boring outfits? They want pratfalls! Accidents!
Look, sometimes you have to help it along a little. Why, back in my day as a young shooter, we carried Vaseline in our camera bags. A little dab of that on the runway, and it’s “I Love Lucy” all over again!
Boss, is that even ethical?
We don’t use that word here, Johnson. There are lots of other tricks. You substitute a pair of roller skates for their designer shoes, you set your strobe light on STUN and surprise them with it…
You can call out their name and tell ‘em their pet iguana died, or string a little piano wire across the runway at ankle height…
Boss, this is unconscionable! Stop this!
Johnson, it’s 18 degrees outside. Suppose you spill a little soapy water on the runway and leave the outside stage door open. A thin sheet of ice, undetectable…
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A model falls down while she presents a creation from Cavalera’s collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week Winter 2011 in Sao Paulo, February 2, 2011. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
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Fashion show in a puddle?
Like Flanders would say…”Dum do diddly diddle!”
Zombies..rain and slips..a perfect combination
What the heck? She almost looks like the fall is intentional. When did they start putting puddles of water on fashion runways? Is it a wet t-shirt creation?
If the model’s in the middle of a puddle on a griddle, AND she’s wearing a girdle while trying to hurdle an imaginary poodle, THEN it’s a model middle puddle griddle girdle hurdle poodle.
Ho hum…another model falling down. When Johnson can get some pics of a model falling up then I will be interested.
Oh and I don’t think you can really call fashion show outfits boring. Eccentric, weird, mind boggling, crappy mostly, but not boring.
Classic headline BG…
Is that a life-jacket around her stomach? Was this fall part of the show, what with the water and all?
One word. Water skis. Wait, that’s two words. Oh well, Mr. Spam Filter doesn’t care about bad grammer (sic).
@Nosmo: really clever! Though I am not sure if you are off the sprinkles or had too many.
@ifly: the fasions are Picassoesque (with a tip of a fashionable, if weird, hat to Doc).
@Onedoor, perhaps but could it be denied Picasso had his fair share of issues also?
seriously? let’s perpetuate negativity by picking on skinny girls. everybody of every size should be treated with respect.
hello? Lost & Found? There seems to be a sense of humor missing.
Seriously? I must have woken up in another dimension as I thought we were having fun on the slippery runway of life.