Jewellery Student makes necklaces out of Human Hair
Just when you think fashion could not get any weirder and more wonderful it goes and throws you a curve ball.
Middlesex University student Kerry Howley, 23, from, Cambridge has created a unique necklace made entirely of...human hair. The BA jewellery student uses the hair from the head of a friend's mother, using wallpaper patterns as inspiration.
Kerry used broken saw blades to put the neclaces together that sit across the neck line as any ordinary one would do.
The pieces were designed to demostrate that people can feel opposing emotions about the same material, depemding on where they see it.
Kerry said in a statement: "The necklaces are made of human hair, a material we are familiar with and take pride in. However, once off of the body it becomes an innate source of aversion. I wanted to see if I could make discarded hair attractive again. I hoped to create a delicate balance between feelings of aversion and attraction."
The necklaces have already been praised and won the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture's Arthur Silver Award for 2011.
The collection will be displayed alongside the work from other Middlesex University jewellery students at New Designers 2011.
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