Post by Phalon on Mar 27, 2009 7:31:50 GMT -6
I recently watched an episode of a program on the Food Network, called "Will Work For Food". The host of the show travels the country doing some of the food industry's most strangest jobs. In the episode I watched, he helped one of the designers of New York's annual chocolate fashion show - which in 2008, featured chocolate-clad super-heros. Although the segment featured a Barbarella costume, I was sure I saw a chocolate armored Xena in the background.
A two-minute Internet drill proved my eyes weren't mistaken. Designer and chocolatier, Joelle Mahoney, recreated Xena's leather warrior princess garb - not just chocolate-colored this time around, but done in real chocolate.
"Chocolate leather is a combination of chocolate and corn
syrup," said Mahoney backstage, "And then when we finished
making it, we then cut it out just like a dress because its like leather. You can touch it, feel it, it is all like leather and it tastes like tootsie roll if you were to eat it."
I wonder how Xena would feel being compared to a tootsie roll?
It doesn't seem like the designer was going for authenticity here: it looks like the main goal was to make the costume as dessert-like as possible. The breast-plates look like gold jello molds, and the round thingies in her hair look like those gold foil-covered pirate coin Halloween candy. And the crown looks....crown? Did Xena ever wear a crown? Xena: Chocolate Warrior must have won the show.
Here's a link to a photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/ohwaitnvm/3011428693/
A two-minute Internet drill proved my eyes weren't mistaken. Designer and chocolatier, Joelle Mahoney, recreated Xena's leather warrior princess garb - not just chocolate-colored this time around, but done in real chocolate.
"Chocolate leather is a combination of chocolate and corn
syrup," said Mahoney backstage, "And then when we finished
making it, we then cut it out just like a dress because its like leather. You can touch it, feel it, it is all like leather and it tastes like tootsie roll if you were to eat it."
I wonder how Xena would feel being compared to a tootsie roll?
It doesn't seem like the designer was going for authenticity here: it looks like the main goal was to make the costume as dessert-like as possible. The breast-plates look like gold jello molds, and the round thingies in her hair look like those gold foil-covered pirate coin Halloween candy. And the crown looks....crown? Did Xena ever wear a crown? Xena: Chocolate Warrior must have won the show.
Here's a link to a photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/ohwaitnvm/3011428693/
