Now most of you are familiar with the film but for the few who like me avoided it intentionally or accidentally, it is a film that exploits that gnawing feeling we all have that we are living in some sort of controlled universe parallel to and separate from true reality not unlike the Truman Show, but darker
When Bows character, Prudence Severn, is invited to a costume ball with the theme the less worn, the easiest mended, she takes the message literally, wowing in a barely-there gown
If an unexpected interview or date comes up, a man knows how to get ready and out the door looking like a million bucks
In that gesture, born from the need to lighten and redefine, the seed of what would later be known as the tube dress was planted
The 26-year-old artist, who was honored with the Fashion Icon award, wore a sheer dress adorned with more than 200,000 Swarovski crystals, and little else