The ‘infernal’ outfit of the rapper Doja Cat goes around the world: sitting for five hours for 30,000 crystals | show

A living statue, escaped from hell, that’s what Doja Cat was supposed to represent. Not surprisingly, the look was officially called ‘Doja’s Hell’, coinciding with the show by the fashion house Schiaparelli with which the Haute Couture Week on Monday.

The new collection of the French brand is inspired by the epic Hell of Dante and the Nine Circles of Hell. The models on the catwalk were supposed to make viewers think of sculptures.

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With Amala Dlamini, as Doja Cat is actually called, there was also a living statue in the front row. the rapper of the hit say it she wore a bodice, a skirt full of wooden balls, boots and a shawl, all in the same fiery red. All of her visible skin was covered in body paint, covered with over thirty thousand crystals. Doja had to sit still for almost five hours to create her look:

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“Her patience and dedication as she sat down with us for 4 hours and 58 minutes to make the creation was truly inspiring,” said renowned makeup artist Pat McGrath, who styled the look with Daniel Roseberry, Schiaparelli’s Art Director. She calls the result a “magical, mesmerizing masterpiece from a shimmering genius.” Even the biggest supermodels are impressed, as evidenced by the jubilant reactions on Instagram from Naomi Campbell and Gigi Hadid.

The outfit caused discomfort for some viewers. The tens of thousands of crystals look a bit like holes, and according to several people on social media, they aroused their trypophobia, or fear of accumulations of tiny holes.

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Reality star Kylie Jenner may have been less pleased with Doja’s ensemble, because she saw a lot of attention being paid to it while she herself had become like that. Kim Kardashian’s half-sister, 25, wore a Schiaparelli dress with a lifelike lion’s head. According to the brand, it was made of foam, wool and synthetic fur, but there was still criticism.

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After all, even with a fake head, the brand promotes the idea that it’s beautiful to use animals as trophies of sorts, according to reactions on social media. The head of the animal organization Peta saw a successful protest against the calls trophy hunting and thought that Kylie celebrated the beauty of lions. By the way, more animals passed through the catwalk:

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Kylie Jenner might have kept Doja in mind, as she used to go for flashy outfits in the past:

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