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Razor clamshell dress from Voss

Voss is the seventeenth collection by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, made for the Spring/Summer 2001 season of his fashion house. Voss drew on imagery of madness and nature to question beauty standards and critique the fashion industry, with showpiece designs made from unusual materials such as razor clam shells (dress pictured), an antique Japanese screen, and microscope slides. The runway show was staged on 26 September 2000 in London, inside a room-sized mirrored glass cube, the audience seated outside. The interior was styled to look like an insane asylum and models were directed to act unwell. In the finale, a glass cube inside shattered to reveal Michelle Olley, fat, nude, and covered in moths. Critical response was positive, especially towards the showpieces and the performance art aspect. The show is regarded as one of McQueen's best, and has attracted a large amount of academic analysis. Several ensembles appeared in the retrospective Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. (Full article...)

June 7

Surinam Airways Flight 764

• 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia, who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
• 1832 – The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent.
• 1900 – American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.
• 1929 – The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City into existence, thus ending the "Roman question".
• 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 (pictured) crashed while approaching Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, in Zanderij, killing 178 people, including members of the football team known as the Colourful 11.

Protests in Albania

• In Albania, demonstrations erupt (pictured) against a proposed tourism development project on the environmentally protected island of Sazan.
• In Myanmar, an explosion at a Ta'ang National Liberation Army base leaves 43 people dead.
• In Twenty20 cricket, the Indian Premier League concludes with Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeating Gujarat Titans in the final.
• Following the collapse of Evika Siliņa's coalition, Andris Kulbergs is appointed prime minister of Latvia.

Burmese hare

• ... that populations of the Burmese hare (example pictured) may be increasing due to deforestation in Laos?
• ... that Saudi Arabia were invited to play at two CONCACAF Gold Cups only eight days after the country was confirmed as the host of the 2034 FIFA World Cup?
• ... that trans porn star Angelina Please was credited with saving a life shortly before losing hers at the age of 24?
• ... that reviewers of Star Reach found it an uninspired mix of several contemporaneous video games?
• ... that Gelu Voican Voiculescu, an esotericist, took pride in securing a death sentence for Romania's last communist leader?
• ... that an AI version of "The Fate of Ophelia" reached number 85 on the Brasil Hot 100?
• ... that the Ottenby Bird Observatory has continually conducted bird observations for 80 years?
• ... that Horizon Call of the Mountain includes a movement scheme requiring the player to physically swing their arms to simulate walking?
• ... that a letter saved Rome from becoming a "sheep-pasture" in 546?

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