[lang_en]Victoria Beckham looks ever thinner in an optical illusion dress[/lang_en]
[lang_en]By Simon Cable
She’s modelled a few eye-catching garments in her time, but Victoria Beckham’s latest outfit was positively hypnotic.
Only days after stepping out in a 1960′s style military outfit, the stick-thin star turned heads again and this time appeared to have achieved an hour-glass figure overnight.
However, it was no more than a trick of the eye – an optical illusion – thanks to the clever use of some black and white horizontal lines.
Dizzy effect: Victoria Beckham went out for dinner in Milan with husband David yesterday, wearing a dress resembling an optical illusion
The ?2,500 knee-length dress was a present from her close friend and designer Alexander McQueen.
Again, her choice of attire seems to have been inspired by a bygone era. The dizzying pattern was more reminiscent of the magic-eye puzzles that were all the rage back in the 1990s.
Professor Tom Troscianko, an expert in human vision at Bristol University, said: ‘It is a very effective design which is clearly there to give the impression of a minuscule waist.[/lang_en] (more…)
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