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Ten-year-old Petra Kotrotsos of Wellington stole the show on Air New Zealand’s Catwalk at 30,000ft flight yesterday – billed as the world’s first fashion show in the sky.
The special flight from Sydney to Auckland carried journalists, models and buyers to Air New Zealand Fashion Week, which was launched by Prime Minister Helen Clark in Auckland on the 16th September 2007.
It also carried Petra, a cancer sufferer, who dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
Dressed in a Trelise Cooper leopard-print stole, the fashion-forward 10-year-old joined the jetset crowd after the Make a Wish Foundation contacted Air New Zealand last week.
After watching the two 15-minute in-flight shows, she strutted the runway aisle herself, handing out arrival cards and lollies.
She also met New Zealand’s supermodel, Rachel Hunter.
Thirty-two designers took part in the sky-high show, which tested models’ balancing abilities as they paraded down the aisle.
In their first turn, some staggered and stumbled in turbulence, but the second show on the Airbus A330 was smooth and seamless
Hunter said she was most impressed by the efforts of the models, particularly those wearing high heels. “It’s definitely the most unusual fashion show I’ve been involved in,” she said.
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By Sydney Croskery…
PERFORMANCE
There are very common threads that run through these performance works; a desexualisation of the female form employed by the ludicrous and/or repulsive, and a challenge of the notion of high and low art.
The Egg – 2006. 3rd Annual Deitch Art Parade
Since the Egg’s birth in 2006, The Egg has been a guest at such prestigous Events as The Getty Center’s Movement in the Visual Arts and the 2nd and 3rd Annual Deitch Art Parades in New York. The Egg has also appeared in the Comedy world, performing at Josh Fadem’s Acid Reflux Hourin Hollywood, California.
The Egg hopes to become a leading figure in the Art, Comedy and Entertainment Worlds.
WHEEL DRESS
LACE, 2006 with the LA Art Girls
When the LA Art Girls were invited by Lace (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) to suggest a contemporary read of 60’s Fluxus performance pieces, the Girls decided to perform a Fluxus Fashion Show based on an original Fluxus dresses, such as “Build a dress made enitrlely of envelopes so people can put items in or take items out”.
I built a dress out of wheels, and performed thoughout the gallery by rolling around and spinning. We dressed in 60’s inspired make-up and hair as a nod to the era out of which fluxus was borne.
A beautifully crafted, yet completely uncomfortable dress that obstructs all feminine parts via a box, the Wheel Dress was poking fun at fashion and model society as well as haute couture, all genres that are based solely on money and beauty.
LA Art Girls
Fluxus Fashion Show
From left front: Wheel Dress, Dress made of Plastic, Fire Dress
Next Row: Pescription Dress, Dress for a Klutz, Merkin Dress, Tampon Dress, Letter Dress
Back Row: Upside Down Dress, Newspaper Dress, Glow in the Dark Dress, Tin Foil Dress, Sandpaper Dress, Pregnant Lady Dress, Velcrow Dress, Feather Dress
Photo Credit: Bartholomew Cooke
