Six days ago reports surfaced on Instagram of a monolith-shaped UFO seen hovering over New York City. Two days later, he was spotted in Naoshima, Japan. On Saturday, the object had already reached the skies over Paris.
The monolith landed Monday night on the runway of French brand Coperni, which posted fake videos to tease its sci-fi-themed fall collection.
In a fusion of cinema classics, Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer made the mysterious black slab, which originally appeared in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” light up and play the five-note motif from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” .
The collection was rife with references to popular movies and conspiracy theories. Tinfoil hats inspired a crinkled silver minidress, while the lizardfolk theory spawned outfits in a geometric mosaic of dead leather. (For more information, fall into an Internet wormhole.)
Knits came in snap patterns reminiscent of headjacks from “The Matrix,” while items like a suit jacket and trench coat were presented as jumpsuits. Dua Lipa already adopted a similar look from the brand's pre-fall collection, along with her new star-shaped shoes.
Despite such tricks, most of the looks were down-to-earth, like the off-the-shoulder draped black taffeta UFO dress with a stiff circle skirt, which seemed like a cute update to the classic LBD.
Following tradition, they produced a collector's edition of their exclusive Swipe bag. Previous versions were made from a 55,000-year-old meteorite or solid gold, but this one was developed by Professor Ioannis Michaloudis, using a nanomaterial called silica airgel, which has been used by NASA to capture stardust. .
“He made a bag that was 99 percent air and 1 percent glass,” Vaillant enthused, noting that the end result weighs just 33 grams. She was strictly out of this world.
