You know it's going to be a good day when you're having a conversation with Twelv Magazine that involves the phrases "Alexander McQueen tribute dress" "gorgeous high res pictures" and "50,000 gummy bears".
To celebrate the magazine's inaugural issue Editor-in-Chief, Hissa Igarashi and Sayuri Marakumi have created a confectionary-based homage to the late Alexander McQueen in this rainbow dress - a reworking of McQueen's iconic Spring/Summer 2008 design (pictured below).
The Twelv version shunned fabric and instead chose to work in a slightly more edible medium:
"To create the masterpiece, steel wire was twisted into the shape of the dress and covered with a sheet of vinyl. Then 50,000 gummy bears were painstakingly glued on by hand in a colorful pattern reminiscent of a Chevron rainbow."
Our main reactions at this point are:
ONE:
We are reminded of the bit in The Simpsons where a man at a candy convention tells Homer there is a gummy Venus de Milo who was "carved by artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummy".
TWO:
We assume the actual number of gummy bears involved was actually "MORE OR LESS 50,000" because the designers are only human.
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The whole thing weighs 220lb and requires three grown human beings to move it around.
The model is Jessica Pitti
There are somewhere between 350,000-450,000 calories in 50,000 gummy bears