Fashion 'Oopsie' Janet Style

This might be super old news by now but I recently learnt that India’s hot and sexy Fashion week turned out to be a little hotter and sexier than planned. More than one gorgeous Indian model had a Janet Jackson moment on the ramp-one whose Halter top completely slipped off revealing her boobs in entirety and another whose skirt ripped revealing her entire naked backside. Imagine those guys who decided to skip out on this particular designer’s run…how they must be hating themselves!
On a more serious note however, modeling is bloody hard. I used to choreograph fashion shows once upon a time at a pretty amateur level (although one of the models I worked with did become Miss India!) and even at that level the stress and chaos we endured at each show was intense. Missing outfits, torn outfits, missing models, drunken models, stoned models, ego clashes, broken heels, messed up makeup, ruined makeup, backstage drama…I could go on and on. I mean wardrobe malfunction was pretty low on our list even when we didn’t have the fancy designers backing us and more often than not a top was basically a piece of cloth wrapped around a model’s breasts. Have you tried walking-no sorry cat walking, in 4 inch heels with barely any clothes on, on an elevated ramp with bright white lights shining down on the inch of makeup on your face, the pins stabbing your scalp, trying to look hot? Didn’t think so.
Unfortunately for India’s Fashion Week, the Indian government and media decided to make a big deal out of the whole incident, even accusing the show organizers to have planned the whole mishap to generate publicity. Judging by the looks on the models faces, I hardly believe that’s true. If you watch the video on youtube (yes it’s there) you can see how the model just pulls up her top and keeps on walking with her head held high. I’ve seen plenty European models scamper off the ramp like mice or giggle like a two year old when something like this happens. At least this one was professional about it!
The right wing politicians are inconsolably upset and using this as yet another reason to go on about how our country is losing morality, making remarks like "Such exploitation of a woman's body for commercial purposes is not acceptable to us."
Are you kidding me? Have you seen the sari blouses the hosts are wearing on Indian TV these days? And what about Bollywood? It’s like Spring Break! Why are they picking on Fashion Week-the one fabulous event that brings a bevy of amazingly talented Indian designers together for the world to see and admire?
Are the designers to blame for creating such skimpily precarious outfits? The editor of a leading national paper actually accused the halter-top designer of creating shoddy clothes resulting in the faux-pas. Hello. When you have all of two minutes to change between sequences and you are scrambling to make it on stage from backstage madness, in heels, prepping to come off as fabulous, calm and sexy, there is a good chance you didn’t fasten your halter top properly. As for the skirt ripping in the ass…I betcha that model just had a cupcake too many the previous night. Come on people. Give these women a break. A little boobage never hurt anyone. The media broadcasting the ‘incident’ 16 times a minute and the public shamelessly exchanging video clips via cell phone just adds insult to injury. Masala on the wounds I say.
No one wants an ‘ooopsie’ moment in public. God knows we’ve all had our own. Anyone walked over a Manhattan Subway grate with a skirt on? Trust me. There's a Janet moment in everyone's future.