Australian Fashion Week: Bizarre stunt as model dragged on floor in front of celebrities including Ian Thorpe
Australian Fashion Week was thrown into disarray on Thursday, with bizarre scenes including a female model being dragged along the floor by another model in front of a star-studded audience.
Australian Fashion Week was thrown into disarray on Thursday morning, with bizarre scenes including a female model being dragged along the floor by another model in front of a star-studded audience.
Following a chaotic start to the Iordanes Spyridon Gogos shows in Sydney — including a fire alarm evacuation and a woman stretchered out from the event by paramedics — Australia’s most elite fashion critics were treated to an unorthodox runway.
US artist Kirsha Kaechele was pulled by her legs onto the catwalk by her male model partner, as the crowd attempted to conceal their laughter at the outlandish scene.
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Kaechele was draped in an intricate green folded fabric for the show, with her long red hair cascading as she was pulled across the floor.
The male model carrying Kaechele replicated a fashionable Tarzan, with long hair and beard complimenting the scrap of green cloth buttoned around his waist.
Kaechele famously banned men from her women-only Ladies Lounge art exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart —known as the ‘first lady of MONA’, the California-born curator is married to the contemporary art museum’s founder David Walsh.
Iordanes Spyridon Gogos is a “material/research-led” art and fashion studio based in the Powerhouse Museum in the inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo.
