Other kinds of catwalks are implied by their torn furs, beaded headdresses, and evening gowns, and by the way they strip to nothing and stare.
"And he throws out these unbelievable challenges: let's line fur in fur, let's knit fur, let's tear fur up, let's make holes in fur, let's paint on fur, let's paint on shearling.
I didn't notice Nolan was using A Tale of Two Cities until the Act 5 (or 7 ...) burial scene where Gordon quotes directly from it, "'Tis a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done," at which point the incongruous stuff such as the scenes of blue collar people tearing fur coats off trophy wives suddenly had an explanation.
When the Tigger Mother saw Kanga and Roo hopping higher and faster than Tigger could bounce, she had a meltdown and tore her fur and screamed and wailed and threw herself prostrate on the ground, weeping and carrying on because she and her progeny had fallen short of perfection and she was unable to process the experience.
The rabbits, whose front and back paws were tied, screamed and writhed in pain as their fur was torn out.
Instead, Bowie incorporated some of Orwell's ideas on to side two of Diamond Dogs, grafting it into a wider narrative about a post-apocalyptic future where the titular characters roam the streets of Hunger City, armed with knives and fur coats torn up and used as leg-warmers (Bowie has retroactively credited himself with inventing punk via this "urban scavenger" aesthetic, the cad).
It tore through the fur he wore, broke through his shoulder blade and came to rest less than an inch from his left lung, they say.
What we only discovered recently however is that rabbits are very social creatures who become depressed and listless and spend a lot of time staring at the walls and tearing out their fur if they don't have a partner.
Furs that are torn are very difficult to repair.
She fingers the clumps of rabbit fur in her purse, torn out of the baggie in white wisps, thick and knotted as if they'd been tangled in cage wire for days.
