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Occupy Fashion Week: Hipsters plan stylish protest

Taylor Bigler Entertainment Editor
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There may not be anywhere else in the world that separates the “99 percent” from the “one percent” more visibly than New York Fashion Week.

Glitzy fashion mavens flock to runway after runway, clad in thousands of dollars worth of clothing during the bi-annual gathering of the fashion world elite.

The clothes that glide down the runway are easily worth more than some of the “99 percent” make in a year. So naturally, Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to infiltrate the Calvin Klein runway show on the final day of Fashion Week, Gawker reports.

On Thursday, after the occupiers head to the Lincoln Center for Klein’s 2 pm show, they plan to convince 99 attendees to apply dripping, red eye makeup and wear it into the show. The makeup is meant to represent the student occupiers who were pepper-sprayed in the face last year at UC Davis in California.

Occupiers will also present their own “fashion show” outside of Lincoln Center, which, presumably, will feature the latest in trash bag couture.

If they can’t convince 99 high-profile fashionistas to paint their faces, the group plans to “shut down” the final 3 p.m. show.

“As occupiers, we don’t really understand that world the way the people in the fashion industry do,” Occupy Wall Street organizer Justin Stone-Diaz told the site.

As people in the fashion industry, they probably do not understand that world the way the Occupy Wall Street protesters do.

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