Kylie Jenner criticised for ‘disturbing’ lion-head gown

By now we’re used to celebrities and their stylists utilizing the crimson carpet to showcase a few of their most daring looks, however now we’re seeking to the entrance row for a number of the most weird outfits of the yr to this point, courtesy of Kylie Jenner.

Gearing up for the Schiaparelli Haute Couture trend present in Paris on Monday, Jenner channelled all her main Leo vitality as she was captured exterior the Petit Palais museum sporting none aside from a fake lion’s head, full with fur mane.

A visitor of Schiaparelli’s artistic director Daniel Roseberry – who joined the French home in 2019 – Jenner paired the top with a strapless velvet ruched maxi gown.

The youngest Kardashian-Jenner additionally took to Instagram to share the look together with her 379m followers.

“BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Thanks @danielroseberry and @schiaparelli for such a particular morning,” she gushed. “Wow I cherished sporting this fake artwork creation constructed by hand utilizing artifical supplies. Lovely stunning.”

Haute Couture Vogue Week usually offers loads of alternative for showgoers to up the ante within the type stakes, but it surely looks as if company actually went all out for the primary present of the week.

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Elsewhere, Doja Cat wore an outfit coated in crimson crystals and leather-based from head, coated in an embellished balaclava, to toe, accessorising with the designer’s foot-form leather-based crimson boots.

Jenner’s hanging lion’s head was additionally showcased by mannequin Irina Shayk within the luxurious label’s present, who sported the unconventional accent alongside an uneven one-shoulder maxi.

It wasn’t the one lion-inspired outfit, because the Panthera theme permeated Roseberry’s entire assortment, which, in keeping with present notes, was impressed by Dante’s “Inferno” and the 9 circles of hell — a metaphor for the “doubt and artistic torment all artists expertise”.

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The lifelike creations had been constructed solely by hand from foam resin and different man-made supplies in a kind of “faux-taxidermy,” in keeping with Schiaparelli.

“3 animals sculpted and embroidered by hand, celebrating the glory of nature and guarding the girl who wears it,” Roseberry defined on Instagram, sharing the caption with a number of behind-the-scenes pictures.

However fake or not, the head-turning items drew fairly a little bit of damaging consideration, with some social media customers discovering the “disturbing” assortment troublesome to understand resulting from its visible parallel with trophy looking.

“The message is solely flawed even when it’s foam,” wrote one consumer on Instagram, while one other added: “That is extremely inappropriate, prop or not this could by no means have been designed.”

“There are occasions once you simply say no. This was one among them,” wrote one other consumer on Jenner’s Instagram photograph.

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“Wow. That is disturbing on many ranges” added one other. “That is disturbing , actual or not,” added a 3rd.

“It’s giving looking and cruelty to animals vibes,” commented one other consumer.

Schiaparelli is understood for its surrealism-inspired designs, from facial-feature jewelry, to golden ft as footwear, however maybe that is one look that gained’t stand the take a look at of time.

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