TWELV Magazine, one of the coolest mags out there, pulled a crazy (and mouth-watering) stunt for their debut issue: they recreated Alexander McQueen’s infamous rainbow feather dress out of 50,000 gummi bears. Yes, the tiny chewy candy bears that you can’t stop eating.
Hissa Igarashi and Sayuri Marakumi created the dress using steel wire twisted in the shape of a dress, and then covered in vinyl. Each gummy bear was hand-glued onto the vinyl in a chevron rainbow pattern, taking three weeks to complete. Fitted exactly to MAJOR model Jessica Pitti’s measurements, the dress weighed in at a whopping 220 pounds. I’m sure she wasn’t interested in walking anywhere while wearing it.
The original McQueen dress:
buddhist on 07.21.2012 at 12:45 PM
Wow, I would love to eat it after the show ;-)
Lori on 07.21.2012 at 16:17 PM
I think the dress would look better if the model looked like she had eaten in the past week. Her spindly arms and protruding clavicle detract significantly from the overall balance of the photograph making the dress appear more bulky and heavey than it could.
Alex on 07.23.2012 at 08:58 AM
Ha ha! Reminds me so much of the “Gummi Venus de Milo” episode of The Simpsons…
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Gummi_Venus_de_Milo
Vladimir on 08.23.2012 at 08:07 AM
How sweet, love the dress! It would go perfectly with my Gummy Bear Type (http://www.koncar.info/portfolio/gummi-bear-type). :)
Alexa on 12.12.2012 at 06:14 AM
Very creative ! I agree with Lori above though that the dress would look better if the model didn’t look so anorexic !
Perhaps she should take a bite out of her dress :)