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Flower Power: Fashion Folk Go FloralAIDS care program. Hosted by the legendary Lypsinka, the event was more botanical garden than wild concrete jungle, but still drenched in fabulousness.
Entitled "Tulips & Pansies - The Headdress Affair," this was the fourth of VCNY's such pageants, in which fashion folks such as Alice Roi and Austin Scarlett (of Project runway fame) worked with a living weave of blossoms and garlands to produce floral head-ware of the most outrageous sort.
In preparation, a small army of men, women and those in-between worked furiously backstage amidst gowns, makeup and pruning shears. "I've been here since 5:30," designer Nico de Swert confided gesturing to the half-naked model for David Beahm's tribal headdress, "but there are plenty of distractions."
Nico, who collaborated with Simon Doonan for his sun hat of bleached willow and santini chrysanthemums, walked away with the award for Most Beautiful - not surprising as Nico's book, Living with Flowers (Harry Abrams) was also released this week.
The event could have been called Flowers & Feathers, for it seems that the two have some sort of affinity. Two fowl-inspired bonnets represented, a twin-headed swan by Studio Artiflora and an Asian-tinged rose bird by Chinyere Unagi. (The latter walked away with an award for Most Original.)
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