Bella Hadid Has Made Fashion History Once Again

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Bella Hadid made fashion history last week while closing Coperni’s Spring 2023 ready-to-wear line during Paris Fashion Week. While her spray-on dress – yes, you know what I’m talking about- is not exactly ready to wear, it certainly finished off the show with an element of quintessential fashion. This was a job for none other than Ms. Hadid herself. 

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Contrary to the show-stopping ending of the unsellable dress that takes 3 people to apply, the rest of Coperni’s show was filled with looks that you CAN buy. Typical to most Spring lines but not typical at all because it’s Coperni, and there were many floral and lace fabrics. We saw a lot of bright colors mixed with symmetrical cutouts, mesh showing lots and lots of skin, as well as silky fabrics and tight short shorts. Coperni did not leave behind the ever-so-trendy baggy cargos but made sure to enhance models' body types with the clothing to foreshadow what was to come. This performance (yes... it was a performance) consisted of Bella Hadid walking out in only skintight underwear. Eyes had already started to bulge, but what came next really made heads TURN. Two men entered after Bella and started spraying a white, spider web-type spray all over her body. No one had any idea what was happening at this point. The spray lasted for about 9 minutes, after being done it was clear that a dress was silhouetting her body. Shortly after, Coperni’s head of Design, Charlotte Raymond, walked out with only a pair of fabric scissors. She cut a slit on the left side of Hadid's dress and shaped the neckline and sleeves. Bella did her infamous walk and looked phenomenal. 

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Coperni has been known to stun before. As seen on Doja Cat, Coperni created a handbag made from pure glass, hand-blown glass to be exact. This is just another example of their mesmerizing, but let's be honest, impractical pieces, however, here is why they continue to stretch to these bold lengths. While they may get lost in the mix of historic brands such as Versace, Mugler, and Gucci, Coperni is a baby brand, started in 2013 by Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastian Meyer. Their inspiration for the brand was to combine science with fashion, naming the brand after the famous astronomist Nicolaus Copernicus. Manel Torres created the science behind this iconic dress, his inspiration: canned silly string. Fabrican is what he designed after having the idea to make a sprayable fabric many years ago.

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Fabrican is a liquid mix of polymers, synthetic fibers, natural fibers, and many more that when meeting air turns into a solid. While this may remind you of the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs spray-on shoes, this has been done in the fashion world back in 1999 by Alexander McQueen. The technology was very different, and it was not done on a human model. While this spray-on dress is certainly impractical, Coperni brought the unfathomable to life.

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Of course, this was for dramatic effect, and Coperni as well as Bella wanted to create art. Sometimes fashion can get lost in Princess Polly and Shein but not in Paris. Valliant wanted to anchor fashion week back down to its roots, a show for the eyes, and that is exactly what he did. No other than Bella Hadid accomplished this, and it would not have been as iconic without her. 

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Writer: Ella Selph

Editor: Addy Crosby

Graphic Designer: Sydney Baksa

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