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The legendary line-up included comedians Andrew Santino, Jeff Ross, Andrew Schultz, Youtube sensation Stavros Halkias, French comedian Fary, Matteo Lane, Louisiana's Theo Von, actress Yvonne Orji and Columbian rapper J Balvin.
Poking fun at Alexander Wang, Kanye West, Balenciaga's advertising controversy, the many ways French people have pronounced Tyra's name, and even Dillane's humble beginnings selling T-shirts to people queuing outside the Louis Vuitton flagship, the jokes were often obscene and borderline aspersive, but also so great. "Funny Business" was a fresh take on the more conventional notions of Fashion Week. KidSuper was as bold and unapologetic as ever and reminded us that above all, fashion is supposed to be fun, lighthearted and creative.
As we encroach upon the dark wood we encounter lust, pride, and avarice, in our descent to hell through faux-taxidermy of the leopard, the lion, and the she-wolf constructed from foam, resin, and other materials by hand. The symbolic heads of each animal are mounted, like an oversized brooch, on the breast of two dresses and a gluttonous fur coat.
Leather-slicked slabs of tin paillettes tremble from dresses and wooden beads bauble from skirts in honor of the “slippery, house-of-mirrors quality of his Inferno.” The deception of a hand-painted column dress appears as iridescent velvet and a copper bust hand-sculpted with patina. Deliberate artifice is discarded for wonder in a descent into Surrealism, with the apprehension of the artist’s hand ever-so present in rough-cut jewelry and gold-veined handbags.
And for Schiaparelli, the collection “is a reminder that there is no such thing as heaven without hell; there is no joy without sorrow; there is no ecstasy of creation without the torture of doubt,” just as the peak and valley of our own heart beat.