Well, Saudi Arabia, had a “Fashion Week” during Ramadan, but something was missing. Models—women models. Instead of actual physical women wearing the clothes down the catwalk, they used drones. Here you go. It’s creepy as all get out!
Saudi arabia fashion show#fashionstyle #fashionshow 😀😁 pic.twitter.com/2Fsen9NMpc
— Think Tank (@KaburgaAdam) June 6, 2018
Now it’s true, as News.com.au noted, that handbags and clothes have been displayed in Italy and California via drones, but this case seems to be religious:
The city’s recent fashion week featured clothes from some of the world’s most expensive designers — including Dolce & Gabbana — all of which were awkwardly shown off and modelled down the catwalk by drones.
Because why would you need six-foot models to show off $1000-plus gowns when you can hang it on a coathanger and float it down a runway instead?
Saudi Arabia is still ultra-conservative, meaning Riyadh’s fashion week kept its audiences female-only and male fashion designers weren’t even allowed backstage at their own shows.
According to local news site The New Arab, organisers for the fashion show said the use of drones was a first for the Middle Eastern country and said the odd technique had been used to make sure the show was “Ramadan appropriate”.
The peculiar catwalk, which featured the clothes creepily billowing as they were driven throughout the room, has since been mercilessly mocked online.
Now there are clearly men and women watching these drones, so I’m not sure why they say the audiences were “female only”, even if the females were clad in abayas.
https://twitter.com/wa7d_riyadh/status/1004528067354775552
In such cases, mockery is the only appropriate response. The Washington Post reports that the show took place in Jiddah, not Riyadh, as the News.com.au noted. There appears to have been a similar fashion show in Riyadh in April.) The post adds this:
The presentation was intended as a gimmick and designed to make the show stand out to buyers in the fashionable coastal city. However, in a country where women are still bound by conservative ideas about modesty, the replacement of women with flying robots prompted widespread mockery — and in some cases, outrage.
On social media, some posters compared video from the show unfavorably to a horror film, with users suggesting that the floating dresses looked as if they were being worn by ghosts.
The reaction to the show is probably not what the organizers intended.
. . . Traditionally, Saudi Arabia has set restrictions on the types of clothes women can wear. The country legally requires women to cover themselves while in public by wearing an abaya, a loosefitting cloak. Many Saudi women are also expected to wear some kind of hijab or head covering, and some opt to cover their face with a niqab. These expectations are more relaxed in Jiddah, a relatively liberal city.
Well, they weren’t relaxed vis-à-vis the damn drones! Seriously, what is the point of trying to sell, or even show, clothes that are supposed to look good on women if the women aren’t allowed to wear them on the catwalk.
Will you see any of this on the Western feminist websites? Don’t count on it.
https://twitter.com/OmarImranTweets/status/1004328170235891713
That is really strange. Should we call it a fly by?
Hilarious! This is some top satire!
Right?
In the face of such dumbfounding idiocy, satire dies.
Maybe the drones double as sexbots.
Burka models were all busy workin’ Bill Maher’s runway.
“First class fashion for second class citizens”. “With a French cut lower hem and plunging eye slit.” Being able to read those lines without cracking up ( he did some) is one of several reasons I think Bill Maher is a talented comedian.
Put a mannequin on a Rumba. I wonder if women are allowed to operate the drones?
“Who you gonna call? (Ghostbusters!)”
Still showing too much prop. I’m offended!!!!1!!!!!
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Exactly! The wire hangers should be covered! (With cloth, mostly a girl thing.)So clearly they didn’t even use female hangers!
My modesty has been trampled; I must cleanse!
No wire hangers!
Bugger ,i was going to post something along the lines of Cor ,look at the propellers on that one.
This is just creepy!
1. These clothes are for women to wear but no women should be seen wearing them.
2. Even female mannequins would be offensive.
3. Hanging from drones is okay.
4. If you buy these clothes you’ll be investigated.
Well, of course it reminds them (me too) of a horror film–it’s about women in Saudi Arabia. Can’t think of much that’s scarier than that.
Al hamdulillah! Ya rabbi! That is one of the funniest, goofiest things I’ve seen in my life, and I’ve seen a-plenty. Whoever thought that up should be given a job on SNL. Too bad Monty Python’s kaput. I hope some satirist in the Middle East picks it up.
They must be drooling over the sexy drones over on the drone discussion forums.
Is this is a metaphor for and by the ruling patriarchal system, the desire for the invisibility of Saudi women…
a psychological gender indoctrination programme?
Or! women can buy the dress, a drone accessory, and then can leave the house with an approved drone escort… SA of the 21st century.
You cannot make this up!