Designer #1, “ OK, we’ve got a beautiful young woman here. What can we do to work against everything she’s got going for her?” Designer #2, “ let’s start with something baggy on top to completely erase her waistline and flatten out her bust line. Maybe look a little bit like a tank?” Designer #2, “Yes, and let’s make it stop at the waist and tuck it in, so there’s no question that she has no real form. No waist at all,as a matter of fact.” D#1, “ yes, good idea. Let’s also make the sleeve gigantic and short, so it makes her arms look spindly and adds to that nice bulky free-for-all we’ve developed at the top.” “oh yeah and let’s make the neck line come way up like it’s some kind of a T-shirt that’s too small. But, we need to counter that by making it a shiny fabric so it looks like it’s dressy. You know to counter the T-shirt look. I mean after all, it is the red carpet.”
“ oh yeah, I forgot it’s the red carpet. Let’s give her a a long skirt, you know, formal length, and have glittery things on it.”
“Perfect. Let’s make sure that it’s pretty tight because you know, we’re designers and we’re going to counter the loose effect at the top but we can make it so tight she can’t really walk. You know we’ll give her that lumbering effect. I mean, we don’t want anything “elegant” to happen here. We’re too hip to go along with doing something elegant on the red carpet.”
“ Absolutely. We are hip fashion forward. We’re not gonna buy into that beauty and glamour crap. Yeah let’s go back to
Prada in the early 90s and have a look around. Oh, wait, we’re fashion forward, we better not admit that.”
“ One last thing… We need to consider color a little more intensely. Let’s make the skirt-bag a soft, feminine pink. It could look like some kind of a cocoon on her.” “ yeah, I like that idea of nature. What about we do sort of a Christmas tree green on top? “
“ perfect… I only wish they would let us do her hair and make up”