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Klath
03-18-2006, 08:21 AM
It may also be hard to keep your lunch down.

Skin-related Bags, Accessories and OverGarnments (http://www.skinbag.net/skinbag-gb/index.php)
Gore + Chic = très Chic

SkinBag is a symthetic human skin with a creased appearance giving an organic aspect to the range of clothing and accessories.
Theses pieces play on the ambivalence of the archaic & instinctive body, and the artificial & optimised body.
With its alternative tattos and piercings, SkinBag has many identifying artificial additions which lets the individual show his personality off to advantage. SkinBag is a relative tool, an particular interface between us and others.
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Iagoe
03-18-2006, 09:23 AM
"skin bag" sounds an awful lot like "body bag" to me, and while I can understand the point about "idealized" body types, this is just ew.

(Jinjre is cross-dressing as Iagoe again this morning)

Klath
03-18-2006, 09:49 AM
I heard they had plans to "expand" their product line by offering products made from synthetic foreskin. Fondle your purse and it becomes a backpack, rub your wallet and it turns into a briefcase -- the possibilities are limitless!

Panamah
03-18-2006, 07:32 PM
It looks like someone is trying to make a jumper out of a cuttle fish.

B_Delacroix
03-18-2006, 07:41 PM
So this will give new meaning to a skin suit.

Klath
03-19-2006, 07:35 AM
Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin (http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/07/some_of_nations_best_libraries_have_books_bound_in _human_skin/)
By M.L. Johnson, Associated Press Writer | January 7, 2006

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Brown University's library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather.

But here's its secret: the book is bound in human skin.

A number of prestigious libraries -- including Harvard University's -- have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past, said Laura Hartman, a rare book cataloger at the National Library of Medicine in Maryland and author of a paper on the subject.

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