Coperni RTW Spring 2023

Earlier this year, Bella Hadid was 3D scanned to create her CY-B3LLA line of NFTs , sending 11,111 digital versions of itself into the metaverse.

On Friday, the model paraded down a catwalk in Paris wearing only a thong and stepped on a podium, where two men proceeded to spray her with a chemical solution, gradually covering her naked body with a white layer. Welcome to the world's first live spray dress.

Tech and fashion have always gone hand in hand, but if anyone can make science sexy , it was Coperni designers Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer, who teamed up with Dr. Manel Torres, the inventor of the Spray-on fabric, for performance.

The geekery didn't stop there. The designers recorded a video of a blooming flower and used it to print layers on lenticular fabric to create a hologram. Fabric dresses appeared in the collection and on Kylie Jenner, who was seated in the front row.

Backstage before the show, the bride and groom, finishing each other's sentences, said : "It's a tribute to women in general, and the evolution of morphology and the body through the centuries.”

A jacket attached to the back of a dress subtly alludes to the crinolines of yesteryear, yet Vaillant and Meyer are clearly more interested in the future. Outfits with square powerful shoulders were inspired by blocky avatars on the Roblox gaming platform, while a clingy dress with a cut neckline was a nod to the woman in the red dress in " The Matrix".

Removed all the sci-fi stuff, there was a lot of wearables in the range, which checked this season's trend for boudoir styles, with outfits like negligees pulled diagonally over one shoulder, and stunning tailored pants with cropped versions of the bomber jacket, trench coat, and denim jacket. corduroy.

Following the success of their blown glass Swipe handbag last season, Arnaud and Vaillant imagined a version made with one kilogram of 18-karat gold, which will be melted down after the show. Similarly, Hadid's dress can be disbanded and the material reused.

"You can recreate an infinite dress," Meyer marveled. Will the clothes end up arriving in a box? Will textile recycling take on a whole new meaning? Beyond the wow factor of seeing Hadid walking down the runway in her instant dress, the show raised all sorts of fascinating questions about how technology will change the way we dress not just in the virtual world, but IRL.