The New York Fashion Week show featured models like Nina Jovanovic, Juniee Bee, and Teddi Mansueto stomp the catwalk in a series of very unique outfits made purely out of body tape.
Each design used different combinations of tape in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and colors to create various looks.
The Black Tape Project held its New York Fashion Week runway show on Sunday, when a group of models strutted their stuff in very risque tape outfits
Designer and the self-described ‘King of Tape’ Joel Alvarez created the scandalous looks
The runway show featured outfits created from tape of all colors, including shimmering metallics in shades of green, gold, and bronze
On his website, Alvarez describes himself as ‘the world’s only body tape expert,’ and the ‘founder and pioneer’ of the body tape art genre
Each of the designs resembled a bathing suit of sorts
Some featured black tape, while others used shimmering purple, gold, or green – while some even came with tassels or embellishments.
On his website, Alvarez describes himself as ‘the world’s only body tape expert,’ and the ‘founder and pioneer’ of the body tape art genre.
The first-generation Cuban American, who was born and raised in Miami, explained that the company turned his life around after he spent months ‘living out of his car’ and ‘struggling to feed himself’ without ‘a dollar to his name.’
Following the death of a family member in 2008, he inherited a ‘small, run down property’ that was so run down it was ‘not suitable for living.’
‘It was definitely the lowest point of my existence,’ he said on his bio. ‘The house smelled like a wet dog.
‘It had pink water that would come out of the bathtub when I flushed the toilet and there were holes in the roof that were the size of a microwave.
‘I mean, I could literally see the sky from the living room. I dropped to my knees and I looked up to the night sky and cried. I asked what I did to be dragged so low into the ground?’
But as he was cleaning up the residence, he miraculously discovered a box in the closet that contained $26,000 in it.
The Miami-based fashion brand has become known for its over-the-top fashion week shows
