Human Furriery

The new popular products in Eslite’s window this season seem to differ in style from earlier displays. Move closer and viewers may be shocked to find that these designer clothes are decorated with human body parts - nipples, bellybuttons and anuses. Even the expensive looking animal fur is actually made from human hair.

Nicola Costantino designs clothes, sculptures and installations that imitate human hair and body shapes as a core creative concept. She uses silicon and foam polyester resin to produce items that feel like human skin and uses human private parts as decorations to develop a series of human-skin accessories and clothing. This approach highlights the way in which people consume animal skin and fur as fashion, satirizing the process by making the human body a display item. It provides consumers with space in which to consider the relationship between pondering physical desire and clothing.