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Jeremy Scott puts Bart Simpson out front at NY fashion week

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AFP
Published
Feb 16, 2012

Bart Simpson made his runway debut at Jeremy Scott's colorful fall-winter show on Wednesday, the penultimate day of New York fashion week, just in time for this weekend's 500th episode of "The Simpsons."


Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons," draws his character Bart Simpson (Photo: AFP)

The Bartman appeared first on a slouchy men's sweater, then on a women's crop top with mini-skirt, in an energetic celebration of pop culture set to pulsating Japanese cover versions of Madonna and Michael Jackson hits.

Scott -- who Karl Lagerfeld once called the only designer worthy of being his successor at Chanel -- himself took his bow from the applauding crowd in a cheeky Bart sweater and kilt.

His other club-ready looks included skin-tight candy-striped dresses, knits emblazoned with emoticons, metallic pink overalls and a whimsical chiffon gown with a unicorn cut-out tacked onto the front.

Big blonde bob wigs and deep-purple lipstick built upon the cartoon theme. So too did the outsized Hindu wedding jewelry that Scott put on several of his models, male and female.

The 500th episode of "The Simpsons" -- in which television's best-loved dysfunctional family gets run out of Springfield and meets WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange -- airs Sunday in the United States on the Fox network.

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