Think you had a rough day at the office? The models hitting the runway in AVAVAV’s Spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection had it way, way worse.


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On Sunday, the Swedish brand famed for its chaotic fashion shows complete with stumbling models and disintegrating clothing presented its latest collection at Milan Fashion Week, one equally as aesthetic and stressful as a Safdie Brothers’ film.



Entitled “No Time to Design, No Time to Explain,” the collection lived up to its anxiety-inducing name, the models, clad in tear-stained eyeliner and wet hair, literally sprinting onto the runway half-dressed in their outfits.



While some sported duct-tape tops and dresses, shoes encrusted with toilet paper, and in the case of hyperpop icon Dorian Electra, a suit constructed of Post-It notes, others wore sweatshirts boasting phrases like “Made in Italy (or China, can’t remember),” or in the case of one backless sweatshirt, “add back?”



Alongside enthralling the fashion world, AVAVAV’s runway show made a splash with another unexpected demographic — s—tposters.


“Me waking up late for school every day bc i keep hitting Snooze on my alarm,” joked @spicebae_


“Me and the homies showing up to hang out,” noted @depechemold.


“I love this weirdo ---- I ain’t gon hold you. I’m a theater kid lol,” wrote @DariBelafonte while  @licknord. Likened the looks to those of their youth.


”This used to be the i see stars bus @ 2am every day of warped 2013,” they posted.


But whether you loved or hated the divisive runway show, one thing is certain — As @goober99261 so aptly observed, “someone who’s in $200,000 in fashion school debt who has a lower Manhattan studio their dad pays for will angrily argue how this is a creative masterpiece.”