Philip Treacy, the Mad Hatter of British style, fabricated a huge burst at London Fashion Week on Sunday with a Michael Jackson-themed appearance that even featured Lady Gaga on its catwalk.
The headwear designer's Spring 2013 collection, which opened with a aerodrome strut from Gaga, was committed to the belief of Thriller. A agenda of atramentous models, including the iconic Alek Wek, stomped down the aerodrome in Treacy's absurdist fascinators and magically aflame hats to strains of "Billie Jean," all while cutting Jackson's a lot of acclaimed costumes. In fact, Treacy adopted the aboriginal glittery, military-inspired looks – advised by Michael Bush and Dennis Tompkins – for the occasion. The backward pop icon's Captain EO shirt, "Scream" outfit, Thriller anorak and Bad-era breakaway clothing were a part of the items in the show; they will go up for bargain on December 2nd in Beverly Hills, California, so Treacy acquainted absorbed to actualize a millinery accumulating in their account while he could.
Though Treacy's whimsical, over-the-top hats accept continued becoming him adulation from arbitrary celebrity admirers – including Nick Cave, Grace Jones and Gaga– this was his aboriginal abounding accumulating to appearance at Fashion Week in a decade. He's been hardly missed, it seems: his is the a lot of talked-about London appearance so far.
"These clothes were advised to ample a amphitheater of 80,000 people, yet they are fabricated like haute couture," Treacy remarked to the New York Times. He added later, "It's the a lot of agitative appearance I accept anytime done. It is a allowance to accept the models cutting the clothes - Michael Jackson did bigger than anyone the faculty of the extraordinary."
Lady Gaga showcases a architecture on the balustrade by Philip Treacy during London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 in London. (Photo: Nick Harvey/WireImage)
While Treacy ancient his Spring 2013 hats with Jackson's bequest in mind, he aswell admired to pay accolade to the backward Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow. On that level, this appearance acquainted like a bombastic, awful produced acclaim to three appropriate icons. Lady Gaga was the cultural additive to hotlink them all: a brood and assistant of McQueen's, an accessible adherent of Blow's (she even mimicked the trendsetter's lobster hat) and an acolyte of Jackson's, she was the absolute best to accessible Treacy's atomic acknowledgment to the London Fashion Week circuit.
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