First off, I love this post and am grateful for all the pics and comments. But I've been thinking about this, specially with regards to the comments above about how the models were forced to do this are angry about it.
I know there are a lot of people on this board who are into the forced/ENF/humiliation thing, so maybe some would prefer to think that's happening here; but I have to think we're making a little too much of that in this case.
First off, the models certainly would have had fair warning of what was involved. It's not like they show up ten minutes before showtime and someone's like, "Hey, take your clothes off and get on the runway NOW!" This is Fashion Week--a really big deal--and there is a whole process the models have to go through leading up to the event. There are fittings, rehearsals, and the like (I don't have extensive knowledge of the fashion industry, but I just a bit of internet research before putting together this reply, and just googling "london fashion week rehearsal" gives you tons of hits about exactly that type of thing, which apparently now tend to be something of events in and of themselves, at least as far as the fashion industry press corps is concerned). While I doubt there would have been open rehearsals involving the nudity, to preserve the surprise, certainly the models knew well in advance what was going to happen and agreed to it. If they didn't, one model could submarine the entire show by walking out.
And models are not slaves. They can turn down jobs. While there is a lot of pressure on young models to take jobs from big designers, and to say yes to everything they're asked to do, at the end of the day no one has a gun to their heads. But even given that, I find it unlikely that a model would get blackballed because she wasn't comfortable with such an extraordinarily risque assignment. And why would they, when they could find someone else who was willing to do anything to get on the runway for Fashion Week, even getting fully naked?
Which brings me to my final point. As has been mentioned previously, there are only two nude models. If the designer could force models to get naked, certainly there would be more. My guess is that they only found two runway-quality models willing to do it.
If the girls looks angry, or embarrassed, my guess is that's either because that's just their runway "attitude," the look they're trying to affect; or maybe it's just the natural response to an embarrassing situation. I mean just because they agreed to do it doesn't mean they're not embarrassed and uncomfortable, right?
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