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February 14, 2016 by Tien Chiu

Hot Couture 2016

Yesterday I went to see “Hot Couture” at The Crucible. The Crucible is a nonprofit craft school specializing in “industrial arts and crafts” – particularly anything requiring fire (blacksmithing, jewelry-making, glassworking). So, of course, “Hot Couture 2016” was not just a wildly impressive fashion show, but a joyous, thunderous celebration of fire and light.

Here are a few photos from Hot Couture, mostly taken by my critique partner, Lieven Leroy of Subversive Photography. (The dominatrix with flaming bullwhip was particularly impressive – the photo doesn’t capture the incredible dynamism of her show.)

And here is a video of the finale. Flamenco dancing – with fire!

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  1. kherbaugh says

    February 17, 2016 at 5:56 am

    So, I wonder if the fire dancer was a Flamenco dancer or fire dancer first? I never would have thought to put the two together!

    • Tien Chiu says

      February 17, 2016 at 4:55 pm

      I’m guessing Flamenco – once you got that down, you’re just handling two fiery fans. But of course I don’t really know…

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