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Arts in Marrakech (AiM) first took place in September 2005. According to the event's media coverage, it serves as the [[Marrakech]] International Literary and Arts festival. It is reported to be a [[biannual]] festival. The 2005 participants and guests were [[Moroccan]] [[Sufi]] musicians, [[Alan Yentob]], [[Annie Lennox]], [[Richard Branson]], [[Saadi Youssef]], [[Charbel Dagher]] and [[Mohammed Bennis]].
[[Image:Wardrobe Malfunction.jpg|thumb|right|The famous "wardrobe malfunction" during Super Bowl XXXVIII]]
[[Image:Tara_Reid_top_slips.jpg|thumb|right|Hollywood party girl Tara Reid had no idea she was flashing the everyone when the strap of her dress slipped off.]]
[[Image:Lindsay_Lohan.jpg|thumb|right|Lindsay Lohan's moons the children at the Kid's Choice Awards.]]
'''Wardrobe malfunction''' is a [[euphemism]] used to describe the presumed accidental exposure, because of a defect attributed to an article or articles of [[clothing]], of what would be considered an [[intimate parts|intimate part]] or parts of the body of their wearer. Most famously, it was coined by [[Justin Timberlake]] to explain the [[Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy]], a [[1 February]] [[2004]] incident in which the malfunction resulted in the unintentional baring of most of [[Janet Jackson]]'s right [[breast]].
[http://www.languagemonitor.com The Global Language Monitor] named the phrase as "Hollywood's Top Word or Phrase for Impact on the English language", as a word which had the most influence on the language for the year.
[http://www.kasbahagafay.com/aim.htm AiM 2005 Website]
[http://www.liberatum.org/morocco.htm AiM Liberatum Website]
The term has remained popular in part because of the humor associated with its [[jargon|jargonistic]] and overly technical quality when used as an explanation for the [[Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime controversy|Super Bowl incident]], which many believe was actually an intentional [[publicity stunt]]. This suspicion was underscored by many who studied their [[TiVo]]s up-close, and discovered that Janet was wearing a "[[nipple]] cap" which mostly covered and also emphasized the nipple area. This was reinforced by one of the lines in the song Timberlake was singing: "I'll have you naked by the end of this song." Moreover upon exposure, Janet first looked down and then took her time covering up, giving the cameras a few seconds to linger.
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In [[2005]], during [[Super Bowl XXXIX]], [[Go Daddy]] made fun of the Super Bowl incident a year later with a controversial risqué television commercial involving a large busted woman named Nikki Cappelli played by [[WWE]] [[WWE_Diva|Diva]] [[Candice Michelle]] who, testifying before a [[congress]]ional committee, experiences a wardrobe malfunction. The original commercial included the phrase "wardrobe malfunction", but that phrase was later edited out.
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[[Category: PhrasesMoroccan culture]] ▼Another widely reported wardrobe malfunction happened to [[Tara Reid]] during a [[November]] 2004 photo shoot at [[P. Diddy]]'s birthday party in [[New York]], when her dress fell, exposing her left breast, thus revealing to the public a bad "[[boob job]]" [http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/005461.html with obvious scarring].
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Catching someone exposed has been a [[paparazzi]] game for a long time. There was a famous photo of [[Jayne Mansfield]] leaning over a table at which [[Sophia Loren]] was sitting. The photo was famous not just because one of Jayne's nipples was exposed, but all the more because of the scornful look on Sophia's face as she caught sight of it.
Yet another widely reported wardrobe malfunction happened on [[September 14]], [[1977]]. A contestant on [[The Price is Right]] named Yolanda Bowsley was called to come on down. As she ran to contestant's row her tube top slipped down, exposing her breasts. A huge blue [[rectangle]] with the word [[OOPS]] in it censored her breasts. Host [[Bob Barker]] was oblivious to the incident, and after he made his entrance, he remarked that the audience had "taken a leave of their senses", and told then announcer [[Johnny Olsen]], "whatever brought this on...this is how I want it every day from now on!"
In [[1997]], [[Lucy Lawless]] inadvertently exposed her breasts when she raised her arms and her outfit gave way while singing the [[The Star-Spangled Banner|US national anthem]] at an [[National Hockey League|NHL]] [[ice hockey|hockey]] game in [[Anaheim, California]]. She later said, "I was mortified. . . . It was quite a bit more exposure than I want."
The term has subsequently been used to describe a piece of clothing that stayed ''on'', as for example in 2005 when [[George W. Bush]] failed to remove his gloves before shaking hands with [[Slovakia|Slovak]] officials.
''Suit malfunction'' is the term used to describe the cape problems which cause the deaths of a few [[Superhero|superheroe]]s in the movie ''[[The Incredibles]]''.
In 2005, the [[VH1]] program [[Gameshow Moments Gone Bananas]] counted down the top 5 gameshow wardrobe malfunctions.
On 12 July 2005, [[Mariah Carey]] suffered an [http://www3.contactmusic.com/news/index12.htm embarrassing moment] when her entire dress fell off while performing in Germany. However, the antic was not televised live, and no legit pictures have been found on the Web, although [[Photoshopping]] has been identified on many pictures web-wide.
On 2 September 2004, [[Jennifer Hawkins]]' skirt fell to her knees while modelling at a Sydney fashion show, and this was captured and widely broadcast throughout the Australian and International media.
Before the [[72nd Academy Awards]] in [[2000]], [[Minnie Driver]]'s top fell in front of many photographers' cameras and became a topic of many late-night comedians after the event.
On April Fool's day, 2006 [[Lindsay Lohan]] fell victim to a "wardrobe malfunction" when she walked out on stage to receive an award with her dress up in the back, exposing the fact that she had chose to go commando to the [[Kids Choice Awards]] show for children.
The term has also become widespread in the Indian media after model [[Carol Gracias]]' [[Bennu Sehgall]] [[halter top]] accidentally slipped below her breasts during [[Mumbai]]'s [[Lakme Fashion Week]] [[2006]], provoking a national [[moral panic]] and a flurry of circulation of [[voyeur]]istic [[MMS]] videos of the incident. In the same week, the open [[zipper]] in model [[Gauhar Khan]]'s [[Lascelles Symmons]] skirt added fuel to the fire, and the [[Indian government]] began investigating as to whether these exposure incidents were intentional. The Indian media took up the story with [[gusto]], popularizing the term "wardrobe malfunction" in the [[Anglophone]] media outlets, and often attacking the Indian [[morality police]] for their intervention in the matter.
==See also==
*[[Social aspects of clothing]]''
*[http://www.languagemonitor.com The Global Language Monitor]
*[http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/02/superbowl.jackson/index.html Apologetic Jackson says "costume reveal" went awry]
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1473119.cms Wardrobe malfunction: The in-thing (Times of India)]
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