Gucci has featured models in straitjacket-like clothing on moving walkways in its latest show in Milan, with one model protesting the "insensitive" decision by the fashion house.
The show began with a three and a half minute introduction that saw a succession of models in baggy white clothing with the straps and ties similar to those found on straitjackets carried on moving walkways through the audience.
Ayesha Tan Jones, a non-binary artist and model who walked in the show, silently protested the use of straitjackets in the fashion show.
They held their hands raised in front of them, with the words "mental health is not fashion" written across both palms.

 

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Meanwhile, snippets of voices played, referencing the speakers' mental health: "I don't even know what normal would be", "I guess I'm not a standard person", and "The plan is to be happy" they said.
Tan Jones posted a statement on their Instagram account the day after the show calling for an end to the "stigma around mental health".
"It is bad taste for Gucci to use the imagery of strait jackets and outfits alluding to mental patients, while being rolled out on a conveyor belt, as if a piece of factory meat," said the post on Instagram.
"Presenting these struggles as props for selling clothes...