Chocolate Superheroes
Witness the scene at the 11th annual New York Chocolate Show, this year's chocolate fashion show theme: superheroes, where we hear the sad story of a chocolate-covered Leeloo from "The Fifth Element" who faints and breaks. (Via Grinding; photos at io9.)
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They should have let that poor girl eat some of the chocolate instead of wear it.
I would be willing to go into a diabetic coma just to eat the chocolate off of Leeloo. My god...
Of course she fainted. She has not seen that much food in years.
So....WHY did she faint?
Perhaps she had a sudden, staggering epiphany when she realized just how superficial and silly her life had become? The sheer meaninglessness of her "career" overwhelmed her?
Or maybe she was simply a diabetic who still couldn't resist the temptation of all those sweets at arm's reach.....No value judgements here....
I love food, I love fashion and I love superheroes... but that's just stupid. Hooray, you're wearing chocolate and look nothing like the character you're emulating?
kind of a lame post. it would of been better if the girl fainted on camera. i didnt care at all about the chocolate clothes
Chocolate, models and superheros (oh my!)... three Wonderful Things in one post.
Can we keep Susannah?
Vagisil, STAT!
I loved how reasonable the pastry chef was being about it all. No fit of hysteria, just a bit of resignation to the vagaries of combining fashion and food. I'd have been crying and cursing gods I don't even believe in.
Doesn't the chocolate ship resting atop the redhead remind you of the giant's sailing vessel/hat in Time Bandits?
"Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!"
If she ate more than a saltine cracker a day, maybe she won't be so prone to fainting.
Talia,
Not all skinny women are anorexic. I, a male, at 6'2" weighed 135 for about 20 years. And it wasn't for lack of eating. Some people are skinny. And those who are skinny, even if they eat like horses, still have really, really low blood pressure. I average 110/70, but dip down to 90/50.
Very few people will go up to a fat person on the street and say, "My God! You're a blimp!", but I had decades of people asking me how long I had to live. Fat or skinny, sane or psycho, healthy or unhealthy - collectively imposed body dysmorphia isn't helpful.
There isn't anyone dressed as Leeloo in that video.
Perhaps she inhaled an excess of that liquid coolant they kept spraying all over her. Or maybe they just over cooled her tiny frame?
You know she could have just been asked to stand in that position too long while they were 'dressing' her.
Or she could have had a cold.
standing in a hot, stuffy, crowded place without moving for that long would make me faint too.