‘Dress Up Against AIDS’
Last year I was impressed and weirded out by the antics of the 4th China Reproductive Heath New Technologies & Products Expo. To stress safe sex in China, the put on a fashion show with all the clothing made of condoms. I mused about this being a great idea, and apparently I wasn’t the only one with this frame of mind. “Dress Up Against AIDS” had a fashion show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where more 30 student designers from the International Beauty & Make-Up Academy created kooky rubber-wear for the models to strut their stuff in.
Oddly this still fascinates me. It’s such a fantastic idea, yet it hasn’t been implemented in the US. Yes, sex education is important, but you have to have a little fun every once in a while. There isn’t much the fashion industry does to encourage safe sex other than talk, but it’s obvious they can make their point by educating the public about HIV/AIDS and safe sex, then proceed to have a bomb condom fashion show. I’d love to see a Diane von Furstenburg wrap-dress made of condoms!
What do you think? Is this taking HIV/AIDS awareness to an extreme or is just enough to make a statement?
[via Yahoo! News]
