Two of the world’s most iconic female rockers are showing you can be in style at any age by taking to the stage during Milan Fashion Week.
Courtney Love and Debbie Harry are headlining on the sidelines of the six-day run of fashion previews for next spring and summer.
Courtney sent the audacious German designer Philipp Plein’s catwalk reverberating as fashion week kicked off, while Debbie performs this weekend at the amfAR charity auction to raise money for Aids research.
The ever-uninhibited Ms Love belted out Celebrity Skin for the Milan fashion crowd, lending street cred to Plein’s #pleinpunk collection for next spring and summer.
The musician, dressed in tattered jeans and a dark T-shirt, rode a conveyor belt along an ironic automated fashion runway, accompanied by robot guitarists, named Fingers and Bones. Drones hovered overhead as she sang: “Model/actress, oh, just go nameless!”
Backstage, Plein said that Courtney for him represented the authenticity of the punk music movement.
“She is not just a part of the industry who plays someone else,” he said.
Models in stud-encrusted biker jackets, chain-mail tops, gladiator skirts, tulle tutus and studded leggings were conveyed down the fashion assembly line, stopping to pick up sunglasses from one robot, handbags from another.
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