Swimsuit models dazzle catwalk in bikinis made of tape
Miami swimsuit styles redefined “sex tape” when they steamed up the Miami Swim 7 days runway in risqué bikinis composed totally of different styles of adhesive.
The sticky swimwear was the brainchild of the Black Tape Challenge founder, Joel Alvarez, who uses a smorgasbord of different adhesives to produce swanky however Spartan beach front apparel.
The so-identified as King Of Tape premiered his latest line of eccentric swimwear at the Faena Forum in Miami Seaside on Saturday night time, stunning audiences with his MacGyver-esque layouts, the Day-to-day Mail noted.
Some of the a lot more minimalist bikinis entailed inserting a couple of pieces of electrical tape more than the model’s nether areas, related to stay-action censor bars. Meanwhile, other glamour gals strutted down the catwalk festooned in elaborate mosaics of multicolored, mirrored and metallic adhesive, acting as garments and extras from halter tops to bracelets.
In lieu of a bikini base, just one product had diamond “scales” bedazzling her bare derrière, evoking what Ariel in “The Tiny Mermaid” might’ve appeared like midway by means of morphing into a human.
In get to protect against pain — and potentially an inadvertent bikini wax on removal — Alvarez statements he uses “only skin-safe and sound inventive entire body tape” in his clingy couture.
For every the Black Tape Project’s web site, the unconventional styles were impressed by an face the designer had though operating as a rookie vogue photographer in 2008. The budding designer was reportedly operating with a product who “suggested I use electrical tape on her for the very last look,” he stated.
Whilst Alvarez originally had no concept why she’d want to do this, he made the decision to oblige by wrapping her in black electrical tape, he recounted of his maiden bikini layout.
“Mind you, she appeared like two Xmas hams wrapped in rubber bands when I was performed!” mused the fashionista, who at present features more than 530,000 followers on Instagram.
Quick ahead a couple of a long time and it appeared that Black Tape was sticking all over. By 2012, the tape maven began marketing his “creative services to area night time clubs in Miami” and now showcases his layouts at venues across the world, for each the vogue firm’s web site.
“The venues I would be operating at would article photos of the styles I taped for the night time, which then resulted in other venues contacting for prices,” wrote Alvarez, adding that ahead of he understood it, he “was traveling all more than the spot to spots like Ibiza, Norway and Canada.”
Meanwhile, a online video from the company of the previous Miss Puerto Rico decked out in Alvarez’s gold tape at a charity event in Haiti at present has a lot more than seven million views on Facebook.
These who want to try out the layouts at household can invest in the rolls of adhesive on the Black Tape Project’s web site, wherever they run from $nine.ninety nine for black entire body tape to $29.ninety nine for other hues.
