Rating the Most Controversial Trend Week Moments Over the Years

Typically when fashions stroll the runway, hijinks ensue.

Some designers take it upon themselves to showcase what has for many years been thought of unconventional within the style world; completely different physique sorts, for instance. Others use the chance to not solely showcase stylish types, however to make a political or social assertion.

However generally fashions go rogue and do it themselves. Simply final week, throughout Gucci’s present at Milan Trend Week, fashions have been propelled alongside a conveyor belt in trendy straightjackets and one in every of them, Ayesha Tan Jones, staged a one-woman protest. She held up her palms, which bore the phrases, “Psychological well being shouldn’t be style.”

“As an artist and mannequin who has skilled my very own struggles with psychological well being, in addition to relations and family members who’ve been affected by melancholy, anxiousness, bipolar and schizophrenia, is hurtful and insensitive for a significant style home corresponding to Gucci to make use of this imagery as an idea for a fleeting style second,” she stated on Instagram.

“It’s in unhealthy style for Gucci to make use of the imagery of strait jackets and outfits alluding to psychological sufferers, whereas being rolled out on a conveyor belt as if a bit of manufacturing unit meat,” she added. “Presenting these struggles as props for promoting garments in right now’s capitalist local weather is vulgar, unimaginative and offensive to the thousands and thousands of individuals around the globe affected by these points.”

Gucci confirmed the protest was unplanned and stated in a press release, “Uniforms, utilitarian garments, normative gown, together with straitjackets, have been included within the #GucciSS20 style present as essentially the most excessive model of a uniform dictated by society and those that management it. These garments have been a press release for the style present and won’t be offered.”

See the highest 10 most controversial Trend Week moments over time, ranked:

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10. CROCS

…PLATFORM Crocs, the Balenciaga spring/summer time 2018 style present throughout Paris Trend Week. Why. Why?

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9. Any PETA Protest

PETA activists have protested style exhibits scores of occasions over the previous few many years at many Trend Weeks. They even rushed the stage as supermodel Gisele Bündchen walked the 2002 Victoria’s Secret Trend Present runway.

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eight. All-Inclusive

Rihanna made positive her first Savage X Fenty New York Trend Week present in 2018 included fashions with completely different physique sorts. Totally different physique sorts!

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7. Extra Inclusivity

Chromat’s Becca McCharen-Tran showcased fashions of various experiences, sizes, ethnicities, ages, genders and with disabilities on her runway throughout New York Trend Week in 2018.

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6. Oh Child

At Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty present in New York in 2018, mannequin Slick Woods walked the runway pregnant and really went into labor, later welcoming a child boy.

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5. The Energy of Madonna

The singer walked the runway topless at a Jean Paul Gaultier present in 1992.

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four. Talking of Nude

In 2016, Kenzo turned its Paris Trend Week present into an artwork set up with nude painted fashions posing as statues. Of various physique sorts.

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three. Political Protests…

Typically they sneak onto the runway. Jeremy Scott integrated this message into his New York Trend Week present n 2019.

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2. “Psychological Well being Is Not Trend”

In September 2019, throughout Gucci’s present at Milan Trend Week, fashions have been propelled alongside a conveyor belt catwalk in trendy straightjackets. One in every of them, Ayesha Tan Jones, staged a one-woman protest, holding up her palms, which bore the phrases, “Psychological well being shouldn’t be style.”

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Gun Violence Protest

In September 2019, throughout New York Trend Week, style model Bstroy drew controversy over a runway present showcasing a line of sweatshirts designed to make a press release on gun violence and faculty shootings.

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