Coperni fashion show features models and robots on the runway

Last updated on March 6th, 2023 at 12:18 pm

With their implausible size, thousand-yard looks, and miraculous ability to walk in 5-inch heels, catwalk models frequently appear to be a separate species from humans.

For the Coperni fashion show in Paris, however, it was the models, including Kate Moss’s daughter Lila, who portrayed fragile, flesh-and-blood animals alongside five robots.

Coperni collaborated with Boston Dynamics to produce the first fashion show to include robots rather than human models.

Four pairs of green eyes began to flare in the darkness as the lights dimmed. When the “Spots” – Boston Dynamic’s robot canines with yellow and black tarantula stripes – entered the room, there was a collective intake of breath as each creature appeared to lock eyes with and approach a member of the audience.

It was as if the room were at the mercy of five contemporary Hounds of the Baskervilles.

Models appeared to share the stage with the Spots, but not even the most magnetic could compete with the robots’ springy feline grace and unblinking emerald gaze.

A person and a robot approached one another, looked to become friends, and then the robot assisted the human in removing her coat. Another robot took up a model’s handbag and carried it for her.

The event was a “contemporary fable” that reimagined Jean de la Fontaine’s 17th-century poem The Wolf and the Lamb as a tale about the power dynamics between humans and robots, according to the designers of Coperni.

The company’s founders, Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant, traveled to Boston to meet the inventors of the world’s most advanced robots.

Vaillant stated that Boston Dynamics was “the first robot business to sign a charter stating that they would never arm robots, and the first company to send robots to Ukraine to clean dangerous bomb sites.”

He continued, “Our message is positive: that humans and technology can coexist in harmony.” He stated, however, that the first time he experienced a Spot he thought it to be an unsettling encounter. “Yet, I now find them to be quite attractive.”

Coperni is a technology-obsessed brand that last season broke the internet by spraying a dress directly onto the body of model Bella Hadid during its runway show.

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