Whilst luscious locks are attractive attached to a person, in their loose form they’re nothing but a disgusting and unhygienic distraction. Although a singular strand can be overlooked or brushed away, a clump wound into a ball—usually wet—is gag-worthy and the exact reason why bone-destroyingly-strong chemicals like Clorox exist. In my opinion, hair should be in only one place—on one’s head.
As a child, my poor sister had a happy knack of finding hair in her food, no matter the establishment—from Michelin-starred restaurants to bakeries—no matter its size. Her worst discovery by far was when she took a bite of a pizza roll and then proceeded to pull a long black hair out of her throat that was long enough to rule a margin of an A4 page. Gagging yet? I digress.
Royal College of Art graduates, Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves have made a collection of sunglasses from human hair under their moniker, Studio Swine. Exploring sustainable fashion, the collection pontificates on the statistic that the United Kingdom beauty industry imports 15 million pounds of human hair per year. In their words:
Hair Glasses comprises of human hair with bioresin as a binding agent, the frames are 100% biodegradable and no harmful substances are released during production.
Studio Swine explores how the booming production of hair extensions can be expanded beyond the beauty industry to make other commodities that are equally desirable.
Their project is currently on display until Sunday 3 July 2011 at Show RCA 2011.
Published on 28 June 2011 by Agony Uncle