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  • Butler Lindgard Traces Nipple Hairy Stained textiles

    Butler Lindgård creates Tits N Ass textiles as "a bit of feminist fun"

    Swedish design duo Butler Lindgård has created textiles based on the female body, including carpets adorned with breasts and fabrics that look blood-stained. More

    Augusta Pownall | 12 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • A.Human by Simon Huck

    A.Human debuts body-morphing accessories at New York Fashion Week

    Body adornments that create alien-like appendages such as skin growths and webbed fingers feature in new fashion brand A.Human's collection, which is currently on show in a nightmarish exhibit for New York Fashion Week. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 7 September 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Seven shocking sights at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2016

    Seven shocking sights at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2016

    The evolution of the human body is one of the major topics of this year's Istanbul Design Biennial, with exhibits ranging from a cyborg skeleton to a brain in a book. Dezeen editor Amy Frearson has selected seven of the most provocative examples. More

    Amy Frearson | 25 October 2016 | 3 comments
  • Nipple tiles exhibition by Nicole Nadeau at New York Design Week 2016

    Nicole Nadeau's nipple tiles are moulded from her own breast

    New York 2016: US artist Nicole Nadeau has used one of her own breasts to create a mould for a collection of hexagonal tiles complete with pink nipples. More

    Dan Howarth | 6 May 2016 | 13 comments
  • InConTextUre by Debora Dax

    10 designs that challenge ideas about body image and idealised beauty

    Fed up with the beauty ideals portrayed in the media, designers are challenging body image with products, clothes and accessories that distort the figure and face, highlight preconceptions and poke fun at unrealistic trends. Here are 10 of the best we've seen. More

    Anna Winston | 29 March 2016 | 6 comments
  • Thigh gap jewellery by Soo Kyung Bae

    Soo Kyung Bae's jewellery draws attention to the "thigh-gap trend"

    These jewellery pieces by Singapore designer Soo Kyung Bae are intended to spark a debate about unrealistic body-image expectations portrayed by the media. More

    Alice Morby | 24 March 2016 | 20 comments
  • The 2016 Barbie Fashionista collection

    Barbie redesigned to include more body types and skin tones

    The iconic Barbie doll is now available in several different body types, including a more full-figured version for the first time. More

    Alan G Brake | 1 February 2016 | 17 comments
  • InConTextUre by Debora Dax

    Debora Dax turns body taboos into fashion statements

    Underwear adorned with artificial pubic hair and a skirt padded to look like love handles feature in this collection of garments by design student Debora Dax. More

    Dan Howarth | 23 March 2015 | 37 comments
  • Prosthetic Covers by Alleles Design Studio

    Alleles Design Studio turns prosthetic limbs into a fashion statement

    Canada's Alleles Design Studio has developed a collection of prosthetic leg covers designed to add a human silhouette and a variety of patterns to mechanical artificial limbs (+ slideshow). More

    Katie Treggiden | 7 January 2015 | 3 comments
  • Ownership of the Face by Kristina Cranfeld

    Kristina Cranfeld amplifies and distorts facial expressions with Ownership of the Face masks

    Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: London artist Kristina Cranfeld has created a series of masks that exaggerate different facial features, and a fictional training guide for exercising facial expressions (+ movie). More

    Amy Frearson | 4 November 2014 | Leave a comment
  • Flesh Chair wrapped in squishy rolls of fat by Nanna Kiil

    Flesh Chair wrapped in squishy rolls of fat by Nanna Kiil

    Stockholm 2014: student designer Nanna Kiil is showing a chair that looks like it's dressed in a fat suit at the Greenhouse showcase of young talent as part of the Stockholm Furniture Fair. More

    Dan Howarth | 5 February 2014 | 7 comments
  • Scary Beautiful by Leanie van de Vyver

    Scary Beautiful by Leanie van der Vyver

    These back-to-front shoes by designer Leanie van der Vyver force the wearer to walk in an unnatural way (+ movie). More

    Dan Howarth | 12 October 2012 | 52 comments
  • Body jewellery by Stephanie Bila

    Body Jewellery by Stephanie Bila

    Designer Stephanie Bila used bent wood and crystals to create this body jewellery inspired by Japanese baskets for her Central Saint Martins graduate collection. More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 10 October 2012 | 1 comment
  • Skin Secret by I-Ting Ho

    Skin Secret by I-Ting Ho

    Flaps of dimpled silicone rubber are stitched together to form fleshy earrings, nipple brooches and sanitary pads in this jewellery collection by Taiwanese designer and recent graduate I-Ting Ho. More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 9 October 2012 | 20 comments
  • Beyond the Body by Imme van der Haak

    Beyond the Body by Imme van der Haak at Show RCA 2012

    Royal College of Art graduate Imme van der Haak has printed photos of people onto silk shrouds so that the wearer's image is overlaid with someone else's face and body (+ movie). More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 25 June 2012 | 5 comments
  • Too Beautiful To Be True by Meike Harde

    Too Beautiful To Be True by Meike Harde

    These masks by German designer Meike Harde cover just the eyes and mouth, replacing the wearer's features with idealised ones from the media. More

    Rose Etherington | 12 April 2012 | 4 comments
  • Corpus 2.0 by Marcia Nolte

    Corpus 2.0 by Marcia Nolte is a set of seven portraits illustrating how the human body could adjust itself to the design of products, including a hole in the lips for smokers (above) and an extended shoulder for holding a phone (below). More

    Rose Etherington | 24 October 2008 | 41 comments

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