Twinning: Gucci puts 68 identical twins in matching looks at Milan fashion week
nypost.comMilan fashion week.The looks included two Lurex gowns with shark-bite cutouts, two tailored silk outfits embroidered with cherry blossoms and two pinstripe suits with handbags, which were placed on each twin’s opposite shoulder to give off a mirror-like effect.
Each set of models held hands down the catwalk, surely making audience members do a double take for the duration of the show.
Gucci sent a secret scouting group to the Twins Day in Twinsburg, Ohio, where thousands of multiples of all ages gather at the annual convention, to find the models, according to the Guardian.During Friday’s show, the audience was split into two rooms, not knowing that each twin was walking solo on the other side of a large screen.
Toward the end of the show, the screen lifted and each set of twins joined hands and walked the runway again — this time, together.Alessandro Michele, the label’s creative director, said after the show that twinning is “so familiar — but so powerful,” the Guardian reported.
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