Gisele Bundchen Says Wearing Barely-There Top in 1998 Alexander McQueen Show Was ‘Traumatizing’
usmagazine.comA blast from the past! Gisele Bündchen took a trip down memory lane, reflecting on her most memorable fashion moments since breaking into the industry as a teenager.In a new episode of British Vogue‘s “Life in Looks” Bündchen, 41, recalled “the most traumatizing” experience of her career when she strutted down the runway of Alexander McQueen’s 1998 London Fashion Week show nearly topless. “It was my first show season in London.
I did 42 castings. I remember going to all the casting calls, and nobody would even look at my book because it was the heroin chic time.
I looked nothing like heroin chic.”“I went to do this casting for Alexander McQueen, and there were girls around the block … he was sitting on a couch, and he’d say, ‘Walk,’ and put you in these impossible shoes,” the supermodel explained in the Vogue video.After the casting call, Bündchen, who was only 18 at the time, said she got the gig but didn’t have a fitting and showed up to the show without any idea of what she was going to be modeling. “I was like, ‘What am I wearing?’ I could say like a few words [in English], and I was like, ‘What, what is that?
A T-shirt or something?'”“No, it was this,” Bündchen continued, pointing at the photo of herself on the catwalk in a shimmering silver top that exposed her breasts.“So, I started crying … I was walking and thinking, ‘Oh my God.
Read more on usmagazine.com