Status: Real bags (but not really made from skin)
The front page of the
skinbags site advertises that skinbags are "Organic objects, in synthetic human skin." That description isn't as clear as it could be, and could easily be misread to suggest that skinbags are actually made from human skin. Much of the rest of the site plays up this ambiguity. You come across passages such as this:
What is it? Could it be human skin? One asks oneself, reaching out a hand in an attempt to touch it : a reflexive gesture. This is what is fascinating – like a game made to scare oneself.
But don't worry. It's not really human skin. Skinbags (as you learn if you search around the site a bit) are latex designed to look and feel like skin. They're made by Olivier Goulet. The skinbag line includes purses, handbags, jackets, overalls, and laptop carriers. It looks like they all have to be special ordered. You won't find skinbags down at The Gap. (Thanks to Timothy Hunter for the link)
Comments
If they made change purses...
at any rate, EW!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The Boston Athenaeum, a private library, has an 1837 copy of George Walton's memoirs bound in his own skin. Walton was a highwayman - a robber who specialized in ambushing travelers - and left the volume to one of his victims." says the report. What a lovely thought.
I know from my past employment that "cow top" is thick and hardwearing and "cow split" is thinner and used for things that see less wear. Books are therefore probably bound in "man split".
Uncle Frank in Hellraiser was not bound in anything at all.
That's not the first thought I would have apon seeing that. I'd think it was meat but I would hardly wonder if it was human.
"reaching out a hand in an attempt to touch it : a reflexive gesture."
Hell no. More like walk away in disgust.
This gives me an idea...*grins*
hahah, don't mind me, im so weird.