CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual violence.
A dissonant soundscape, featuring loud clanging, thunder and wind, house music, and the occasional siren, charged the atmosphere around the designs. Many of the models smiled flirtatiously, as fashion historian and scholar Caroline Elenowitz-Hess put it: “blurring the line between horror and allure.”2 The now highly controversial collection entitled Highland Rape, evoked terror and unease among the 1995 London Fashion Week audience.