French Designer Creates Chocolate Dress That's Good Enough to Eat

With Paris's Salon de Chocolat set to open next week, one innovative designer will be mounting a very special fashion show to demonstrate his latest edible creation -- a fully-wearable chocolate kimono.

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7 months ago

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Frédéric Cassel

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France, Paris

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SHOTLIST FONTAINEBLEAU, France, 19 Oct 2012 SOURCE: AFPTV SOUNDBITE 1, Frédéric Cassel, Chocolatier (French, 13 sec): "You can eat all of it except for the plastic and the fabrics. But a lot of it can be eaten; you can lick it, you can eat all the chocolate drops here, the flowers are chocolate, so there's a lot of it you can eat." SOUNDBITE 2, Frédéric Cassel, Chocolatier (French, 13 sec): "We do a lot of tests when we make a chocolate dress: will it stay up -- there can't be too much heat on the podium, we don't want it to melt, that's our biggest concern. Even if it's only up there for five minutes, five minutes is a lot when it's 40 degrees." SOUNDBITE 3, Frédéric Cassel, Chocolatier (French, 12 sec): "Before it goes on stage, given that there's a lot of people back there, we have what we call liquid ice, which we spray on the dresses so they don't melt under the spotlights." - GVs of chocolatier preparing chocolate dress