Fashion maths: A/W 2015

Kickboxers throwing punches at a live match hosted by Snoop Dogg, who rapped his heart out in front of tattooed, motocross-padded models at Philipp Plein’s men’s show

5

Hunchbacked models at Maison Margiela

8

Metal cage-covered rooms, of varying proportions, built by OMA for the Prada men’s show space

1

‘Boob bag’, handcrafted from dark shiny leather, on Christopher Lemaire’s runway (‘Free the nipple!’ cried social media immediately afterwards)

Thugged-out Looney Tunes characters dripping in bling at Jeremy Scott’s women’s Moschino show

32

Kilograms of culatello consumed by 1,000 people in three hours, together with 170 bottles of Fortana del Taro red wine, at Caruso’s Milan presentation

1

Rising section of the runway at Saint Laurent, where models and rock star Julia Cumming from Sunflower Bean started their catwalk procession

9

Male models blatanly flashing their genitalia in frontal windows strategiacally cut out of their flowing floor-length tunics at Rick Owens

1.1

Million followers on Instagram for 29-year-old Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing, the most-followed fashion designer in France

13,000

Hands that work on Kiton’s suits

2

Kickboxers throwing punches at a live match hosted by Snoop Dogg, who rapped his heart out in front of tattooed, motocross-padded models at Philipp Plein’s men’s show

2,000

Trees and plants that Ermenegildo Zegna planted inside Milan’s former Fiera for its fashion show, all of which were later replanted as part of the Zegna Oasis environmental project

6

Models swaddled in a cocoon of white bows at the Comme des Garçons show

27

Headdresses in the shape of lampshades at Junya Watanabe

Years after their first outing that Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson reprised their Zoolander roles by staging a surprise live runway walk-off at the Valentino show in Paris

10

Boys at Gucci doing the girl thing in silky bow-front blouses

1

Mary J Blige impromptu concert, staged by DSquared2’s Dean and Dan Caten at the end of the brand’s 20th anniversary show in Milan

38

Moncler Gamme Bleu menswear models who quick-changed out of their jockey-inspired uniforms into totally new looks under flashing strobe lights

4

Kanye West charity concert nights organised by Bernard Arnault’s son Alexandre at the Louis Vuitton Foundation during Paris Fashion Week

13

Face and ear piercings on the female models at Givenchy, while four men had their mouths held tightly shut with cage-like metal clamps

25

Couples (both hetero and gay) dressed for 25 sports at Moncler Grenoble’s pop-up ski lodge in New York, including a bride and groom in full wedding outerwear

12

Days to assemble Chanel’s pop-up brasserie set inside Paris’ Grand Palais, which featured 9m-high walls, tiled floors, 100 seats and 14 barmen serving coffee, juice, champagne and croissants

1

Life-sized, fully functioning roller coaster, complete with screaming riders, installed inside Milan’s retired Fiera for Philipp Plein’s womenswear show

50,000

Books in the pop-up library at Julie de Libran’s Sonia Rykiel show

72

Age of ex-model Benedetta Barzini, who was the star of Antonio Marras’ runway show

Spinning 20ft towers that glided across the Kenzo runway like giant chess pieces

14

Infants, toddlers and children, plus one very pregnant model, walking the runway at Dolce & Gabbana’s women’s show

32

Fur handbags in the shape of bird of paradise flowers on the Fendi runway

6,000

Rare pearls on a $150,000 Calvin Klein dress, which was stolen from the hotel room of actress Lupita Nyong’o after the Oscars

8

Models wearing cashmere shoe laces at the Brunello Cucinelli presentation

2

Handbags shaped and printed like ceramic coffee saucers at Chanel

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Jack Moss is the Fashion & Beauty Features Director at Wallpaper*, having joined the team in 2022 as Fashion Features Editor. Previously the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 Magazine, he has also contributed to numerous international publications and featured in ‘Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers’, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.