Design, Fashion

09\12\2014
Written by Daan Rombaut



These Stilettos Are Made With Human Hair

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These stilettos by Chinese artist Zhu Tian are made from fleshy looking silicon gel and covered in pubey black strands of human hair. Called ‘Babe’, these repulsive pumps are a comment on the sexualization and fetishism surrounding women’s footwear. Tian implanted individual hairs into the silicon gel by hand. Then she ties them together with chains to display them as a sculpture.

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