Puppet theatre by the fashion house MOSCHINO
During the pandemic, the world famous fashion house MOSCHINO held a fashion show of the 2021 collection of clothes with the help of dolls!
Jeremy Scott hosted the MOSCHINO show as a puppeteer. Doll models in couture outfits walked in front of the puppet guests. According to the designer, he wanted to give his fans an opportunity to get away from everyday reality and immerse themselves in the world of fairy tales. He succeeded!
Puppet theatre by MOSCHINO looked like a real mystery. Exploring the theme of tactility, emotion, the world of the decorative and the connection to the history of fashion, the designer decided to turn to the long-standing practice of couture - fashion theatre. After the Second World War, designers sewed luxurious outfits in miniature sizes and sent dolls wearing them travelling around the world's capitals. This saved fashion houses from ruin in the post-war years of restriction and deprivation, when it was inappropriate to organise full-scale fashion shows.
It is known that museums with particularly valuable exhibits in their collections used dolls to take their collections abroad. The Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of Russia (RAS) in St. Petersburg sent collections of ethnic outfits and weapons created in 1:8 or 1:12 scale to exhibitions in Europe, Asia and America, as their value and insurance amounts were too high, and the risk of loss, non-return and "non-standard" situations was high. And the costume of the doll exactly copied the details of the original, right down to the inclusion of precious stones and metals, gold embroidery and inlaying with mother-of-pearl and bone.
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