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Horse heads on the catwalks?
I don’t know for sure what this thing is. It looks like a bunch of blond braided hair, topped off with an anvil or a small horse head, and I gather these things are being hurled from rafters onto unsuspecting fashion models these days.
Obviously, safety precautions at this fashion show were inadequate. You can see the special horse head anvil protective netting snagged the thing but didn’t stop it, so now this poor women will have to undergo a painful horse head anvilectomy to remove it.
Meanwhile, I’m continuing my research into this alarming trend and will report back to you. I Googled fashion and anvil and small horse head and came up with a Utah educational television blurb about some blacksmith. This could take awhile.
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A model presents a creation by Romanian designer Catalin Botezatu during the 2007 Luxury Show in Bucharest December 8, 2007. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
How ARE they smuggling in Christmas Trees?
Quick quiz: the last words this model will ever hear are…
- “Folks, stay away from the panda’s cage, he LOVES stealing ice cream!”
- “You should’ve had this growth looked at sooner. It may be too late alrea…”
- “Honey, bring me an hors d’oeuvre from over there under that ceiling fan…”
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A model presents a creation for Bandi-Panda fashion show by Chinese conceptual artist Zhao Bandi at China Fashion Week in Beijing November 4, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Lee
My two-year-old “niece” has one of those. The rings are all different colours on hers, though.
“Hit me with the stench, wench!”
It can be awkward when you go pick up a blind date you met online, and she comes to the door with garlic hanging from her hair. You start wondering what a nice, sensitive guy would say, and you come up with stuff like:
- “Yeah, I smelled you from the street, but I’m desperate!”
- “I see you’re all ready to try out that new vampire bar.”
- “Ah, when you said your hair smelled of cloves, I pictured something else.”
- “Awesome blouse, you reeking stinkfest garlic goddess!”
A model presents a creation by Daria Kostenko during a fashion show in Budapest, October 27, 2007. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai
So, all comments are very funny…but do u know the story of this collection! No, I don’t have a food fetish, but I’ve got a good imagination. Why McQueen can have show with paint spraying mashine, why Galliano can have show with Jesus details. Cause when u are designing, they all have a serious conception. My conception was the Vamps. Want to see more, and not just the garlic…
http://www.fashionweekzagreb.com/z01-12- kostenko.htm
Penne for your thoughts?
This isn’t what you’re probably thinking.
This woman was not the victim of a Mafia hit, despite the telltale pasta on her head just like those wiseguys who often seem to flop forward into their linguine after they’ve been wasted. Nor is she doing some kind of bizarro tribute to Yankee Doodle, who stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.
No, this model is just showing what happens when you take the phrase “angel hair” too literally: you wind up wearing a kind of clothing where you don’t need to ask the dry cleaner for starch, because it’s already there. This photo slideshow says it all:
A model presents a pasta dress creation by Hungarian designer Virag Toth during a fashion show at an Italian restaurant in Budapest September 27, 2007. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai
Dear Blog Guy,
I am deeply offended by this entire thread.
Al Dente
Guess we need to call Ghostbusters again, for Mom
Quick quiz: this model’s hair…
a) was styled by the Dairy Queen Frozen Custard All Night Hair Salon b) helped make her Europe’s number one Marie Antoinette tribute artist c) was swirled into this shape by the updraft from a passing gyrocopter d) was the result of being sucked into a cotton candy machine at the Indiana State Fair
A model displays a creation by Japanese designer Eri Utsugi for the “mercibeaucoup,” Spring/Summer 2008 collection during Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo August 30, 2007. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
Tonight on NOVA
Anne Boleyn; a Portrait in Unsuccessful Strategies.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Melons!
Anybody in advertising will tell you, do what you can to hook the customer. Now, take this watermelon salesman in the picture. I’ll bet buyers flock to him, because he’s got an act.
“Judy, we’re not getting our fruit from those other guys with no melons on their heads, and not even from that fella with only one melon. No, we’re doing business with the one who can balance two melons, until somebody comes along who can do three…”
Of course, maybe it’s all just a sad trick. What if that’s just a very elaborate haircut, or he has a spike through the melons, or what if they’re some of those fancy helium melons we’ve all read about? All we know for certain about this dude is, he arrives at the market looking like this, in a car with an open sunroof. Hmmmm…..
A Palestinian vendor balances watermelons on his head to attract customers in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 30, 2007. REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel
Playing Mao: warts and all
Quick quiz: A great compliment when a woman reaches 50 is…
a) Gosh, you look just like Sharon Stone b) Gosh, you look just like Glen Close c) Gosh, you look just like Diane Keaton d) Gosh, you look just like Mao Zedong
Meet Chen Yan, a 51-year-old woman who looks and acts remarkably like Chairman Mao, the Chinese leader in the portrait (left) who died in 1976. Naturally, she’s trying to figure out how to make herself some money out of that. She has movies in mind, but how many Mao flicks the world needs is anybody’s guess.
Meanwhile, she could do children’s birthday parties, celebrity endorsements, stuff like that. On quiet days, she could just go to the mausoleum where Mao’s embalmed body is on display in Beijing, dart in and out of the tourist line, and scare the bejesus out of folks. Here’s the story:
Chen Yan, a 51-year-old woman, waves to crowds while impersonating China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong, during a photocall in Mianyang, Sichuan province May 26, 2007. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
Check out the lady on the right of the weird lookin lady with da wart
You call it an accessory, I call it a pinata…
Okay, the caption tells us this fashion model is showing swimsuit “accessories.” Nice try. I don’t think this thing counts as an accessory, unless you’re Cleopatra heading for a splash with Mark Antony.
I mean, who goes swimming with a whole pavilion on her head? I don’t care how sexy the bikini might be, folks don’t want to have Miss Hot Stuff flop into the aluminum lounge chair next to them, blocking the rays with a hat that looks like a sundial.
They will begin to shout rude things, such as: ”Hey Josephine! Does Napoleon know you’ve got his hat?” or “Lady, you got a whopping slice of watermelon on your head!” People can be so cruel. I will say one thing, though. This hat supports my recent theory that designers are now trying to appeal to cats.
A model shows accessories for a bathing suit from the line of fashion designer Algirmiro Palencia of Venezuela during the opening show of Miami Fashion Week, April 13, 2007. REUTERS/Hans Deryk
And now we know what happens when you piss off the designer…
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