Designer Patrick Mohr Puts Bald, Bearded Female Models on the Catwalk

It’s not uncommon for designers to think of unique, sometimes strange ways of making the presentation of their latest collection more interesting. German designer Patrick Mohr came up with the oddest and most likely to get people talking manner of doing so: by putting bald and bearded female models on the catwalk, along with male models who looked the same, the Daily Mail informs.

It happened the other day, when Mohr debuted his latest collection at the Berlin Fashion Week. Of course, fashion-savvy readers will know, Mohr is no stranger to this type of controversy, since last year he used homeless people together with models to showcase his collection. Even so, his latest stunt, that of putting similarly thin and made to look the same male and female models on the runway, may have very well crossed the border into the land of eerie, word on the web has it.

“Well it's certainly a strange way to try and sell clothes. But putting bald skeletal women – naked from the waist up and sporting hideous beards – on the catwalk must have seemed like a good idea to designer Patrick Mohr. The bearded ladies were joined by equally odd-looking male models on the runway at Berlin Fashion Week wearing what appeared to be giant boxer shorts,” the Mail writes. The effect of having a woman and a man side by side and looking identical is, indeed, uncanny.

“But they later emerged in actual outfits for the front-row fashionistas to gawp at instead. It's not the first time the German designer has caused a stir with the way he presents his designs. Last year he used homeless people alongside professionals to model his collection entitled The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions,” the Mail further writes. Then, for a subsequent collection, Mohr used bodybuilders and transvestites to show that, in the end, differences between men and women don’t – or shouldn’t – matter all that much.

Though this was perhaps the intention behind his latest collection as well, chances of Mohr’s message falling on deaf, or at the very least not understanding, ears are very high, judging by reactions online. Many fashion e-zines have already branded Mohr’s models weird, odd and downright scary, with only very few saying they were “interesting.”

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