Fashions dazzled New York Vogue Week spectators by carrying bikinis comprised fully of tape.
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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 fully of various sorts of adhesive.
The new and sticky showcase was a part of the sold-out Black Tape Undertaking, 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 Basis in Manhattan Sunday night time, mesmerizing audiences together with his minimalist designs.
This newest show went even skimpier than regular — with the spartan black-and-white swimsuits barely concealing the fashions’ nether areas like live-action 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.
Designer Joel Alvarez on the runway for the Black Tape Undertaking at New York Vogue Week on the Angel Orensanz Basis on Sept. 11 in New York Metropolis.
The sticky swimwear was the brainchild of Black Tape Undertaking founder Joel Alvarez, who makes use of a smorgasbord of various adhesives to create swanky but spartan seashore apparel.
A few of the fashions had just a few items of tape concealing their bikini space.
A mannequin walks the runway in her NSFW couture.
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 Undertaking’s web site, the unconventional patterns have been impressed by an encounter the designer had whereas working as a rookie style photographer in 2008. The budding designer was reportedly working with a mannequin who “urged I take advantage of electrical tape on her for the final look,” he stated.
Whereas Alvarez initially had no thought why she would 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 executed!” mused the fashionista, who presently boasts greater than 630,000 followers on Instagram.
"As we speak, I'm targeted on educating and educating others by encouraging the world to do that new style of physique artwork with a set of our personal skin-safe physique tape that I've curated from my very own tasks previously," stated Alvarez.
Certainly one of Alvarez's extra revealing designs.
Alvarez claims to make use of solely "skin-safe creative physique tape" in his work.
A salacious new tackle the canine collar?
Those that need to check out the designs at house should purchase the rolls of adhesive on the Black Tape Undertaking's web site, the place they run from $9.99 for black physique tape to $29.99 for different colours.
Quick ahead just a few years and it appeared that Black Tape was sticking round. By 2012, the tape maven started promoting his “inventive companies to native nightclubs 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 Undertaking’s web site, the place they value from $9.99 for black physique tape to $29.99 for different colours.
“I'm targeted on educating and educating others by encouraging the world to do that new style of physique artwork with a set of our personal skin-safe physique tape that I've curated from my very own tasks previously,” he writes on the positioning. “This is identical tape that I take advantage of each day for my reside efficiency designs and that you simply see in my portfolio.”
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