Across the Catwalk: Performance Innovation in the Fashion Runway Show

Performance comes in many forms, faces, and fabrics. Much as theater necessitates not only a creative work, be it a play, musical, or improvised work, but also performers and an audience, so does the fashion world, coming to a pinnacle in the runway show where clothing, models, and spectators intersect. The audience, like in live theater, is crucial to the art form, as much a part of the experience as the garments themselves, with celebrities in attendance and reaction photographs splashed across tabloids as the models sashay past their voyeurs.