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Milan Fashion Week: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Fall 2009

coutorture — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:42:50 PST

Milan 03/03/09. Photos by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images.

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Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Causes Mayhem at Milan Fashion Week

fashionologie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:28:46 PDT

>> Bruno is in Milan - that's Sacha Baron Cohen's gay Austrian fashion show presenter alter-ego - and he's filming for his upcoming movie at Fashion Week. It all started Wednesday, backstage at Iceberg, where he threw himself on the floor, dragged down a rack of clothes that stuck to his Velcro-trimmed outfit, and appeared to tear off his clothes until security removed him.

Yesterday morning, he tried to hit up Dsquared, but was blocked by security, and yesterday evening he tried to crash Versace, dressed all in McQueen, but was denied again - the Italian Chamber of Fashion has sent out a press release to designers, warning them not to accredit Cohen's film production companies, after all.

Unfortunately, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada didn't get the memo . . . »

Milan Fashion Week: Agatha Ruiz De La Prada Spring 2009

coutorture — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:47:35 PDT

Milan Fashion Week Agatha Ruiz De La Prada Spring 2009 Images by Vittorio Zunino Celotto

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Loopy Laughs at Agatha Ruiz De La Prada

coutorture — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:24 PDT

Amid all the seriousness of the financial crisis in America and the muted Milan catwalks, Agatha Ruiz De La Prada's good natured loopiness for her Spring 2009 collection left us all smiles. Exagerated bowties, giant hearts, and entire flower beds create a kind of adult candyland in which the proportions are so much bigger for the express purpose of making us feel like kids again.

Not that we can imagine anyone but the most loopy grandmother or the most darling precocious child actually having the guts to put on a dress with the kind of proportions on display but the mere notion that someone is still cheery enough to try cheers us immensely.

fashionologie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:22:15 PDT

>> INSIDER WIRE -Sacha Baron Cohen hit the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada runway this morning as "Bruno" in a goofy outfit, but at Versace last night, it was a different story. Decked out in head to toe Alexander McQueen, he could have definitely passed for a fashion figure - but the security at Versace wasn't convinced. Instead, he was left "frantically making phone calls and crying into his mobile phone trying to get into the show." Now everybody's wondering: Will he show up again in Paris? [Go Backstage]