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Nooses Spark Madrid Fashion Uproar

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – MADRID, Spain (AP)–Models sporting nooses, execution-style hoods and body-covering bandages triggered howls of protest and walkouts at Madrid’s most prestigious fashion show. Carrying rosaries or crucifixes, they paraded–and stumbled _ to the sounds of a man’s voice saying the “Our Father,” followed by a woman panting erotically and iron bars screeching as they opened and closed. Spectators at the finale of the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show on Friday night booed, whistled and called out to the vision-impaired models to guide them after some tripped. Some in the crowd said the hoods recalled the burqa head-coverings that women in Afghanistan had to wear when the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban were in power. The director of the weeklong show, Cuca Solana, got up from her seat and ran backstage in a failed bid to persuade the models to stop the show. Fermin Lucas, director of the Ifema convention center that hosted the show, stormed out in protest, as did many fashion writers. “This is an insult to women at a time when we are all fighting for equality and respect,” Lucas said. The outfits were the work of fledgling designer David Delfin, 31, who went out on stage afterward and put his hands together as if to ask forgiveness. Speaking later to reporters, a visibly upset Delfin insisted he had not meant to trivialize repression against women. He said he had got the idea from a painting by Rene Magritte in which two hooded lovers kiss. “My mistake is that this was a theatrical concept and here in the Cibeles show there is no way to do a dress rehearsal,” he said. Still, Delfin defended the third fashion collection of his career as “the most feminine one I have ever designed.”

*ROFL!* I’d hate to see his clothes for men! Deb. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – AP-NY-09-14-02 1122EDT Copyright 2002, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

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-MADRID, Spain (AP)–Models sporting nooses, execution- -style hoods and body-covering bandages triggered howls -of protest and walkouts at Madrid’s most prestigious fashion -show. Isn’t that one of those countries where they publicly torture cattle for entertainment?

It’s not the torturing of "cattle" that’s the entertainment. Rather, the entertainment comes from the possibility that some man might meet a violent and gory death. The same thing draws US crowds to rodeos and stock car races.  (Duh.)    The objection to bullfighting was not    that the man might get hurt, but that    the bull might get hurt.    Warren Farrell, author of _The Myth of Male Power_,    interviewed by Bert Hoff.    http://www.vix.com/menmag/farreliv.htm -Some in the crowd said the hoods recalled -the burqa head-coverings that women in -Afghanistan had to wear when the Muslim -fundamentalist Taliban were in power. Now the poor dears wear them voluntarily.

Yup.  Just as they did before the Taliban whom Western Feminazis so loved to demonize were swept into power by the Afghanistan public. First bill clinton’s swinging dick, then the war in Afghanistan demanded by feminists that feminists insisted be fought by MEN.  There is no end to feminist hypocrisy, no depth of moral depravity to which a feminist will not plunge. -The director of the weeklong show, Cuca Solana, -got up from her seat and ran backstage in a failed bid -to persuade the models to stop the show. Hypocrisy or irony?

Yes. I haven’t seen that fashion show but I betcha there was something in what those models were flashing that had deep ’sex appeal’.  After all, if those women were just silly looking, the Junior Anti-Sex League (i.e. feminists) would not have gotten so aroused over it.

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MADRID, Spain (AP)–Models sporting nooses, execution-style hoods and body-covering bandages triggered howls of protest and walkouts at Madrid’s most prestigious fashion show. Carrying rosaries or crucifixes, they paraded–and stumbled _ to the sounds of a man’s voice saying the “Our Father,” followed by a woman panting erotically and iron bars screeching as they opened and closed. Spectators at the finale of the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show on Friday night booed, whistled and called out to the vision-impaired models to guide them after some tripped. Some in the crowd said the hoods recalled the burqa head-coverings that women in Afghanistan had to wear when the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban were in power. The director of the weeklong show, Cuca Solana, got up from her seat and ran backstage in a failed bid to persuade the models to stop the show. Fermin Lucas, director of the Ifema convention center that hosted the show, stormed out in protest, as did many fashion writers. “This is an insult to women at a time when we are all fighting for equality and respect,” Lucas said. The outfits were the work of fledgling designer David Delfin, 31, who went out on stage afterward and put his hands together as if to ask forgiveness. Speaking later to reporters, a visibly upset Delfin insisted he had not meant to trivialize repression against women. He said he had got the idea from a painting by Rene Magritte in which two hooded lovers kiss. “My mistake is that this was a theatrical concept and here in the Cibeles show there is no way to do a dress rehearsal,” he said. Still, Delfin defended the third fashion collection of his career as “the most feminine one I have ever designed.” AP-NY-09-14-02 1122EDT Copyright 2002, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

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