Osaka lady sculptures in red

Many of the bronze sculptures lining Osaka’s main street known as the “Champs Elysees of the Orient” got some artistic pop on Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Working in the dark of night, someone mysteriously gave the naked sculptures a wardrobe makeover, dressing about two-thirds of the 29 models in splashy red outfits late Sunday.

A lot of care is believed to have gone into the work. The dresses were premade in red fabric or otherwise dyed a pinkish red, and fitted to each statue, most of which are life-size or slightly smaller. Long dresses hung off statues of older women while shorter frocks hugged young girls posing mid-prance. The Midosuji Network, an organization responsible for promoting the two-kilometer (1.25 miles) cosmopolitan strip, says this is the first time such an act occurred, and has not received any witness accounts.