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Human On Display

Model wearing Olivier Goulet's The Social Condom

Model wearing Olivier Goulet's The Social Condom

It took about 30 moulds of different people’s sleeping faces, a great amount of synthetically produced skin, and an intrigued (wealthy) buyer to produce this cape of faces: The Social Condom. This multipurpose piece of clothing is part of French artist Olivier Goulet’s art project SkinBag, a line of clothing with various pieces – bags, bodysuits, jackets and even a burqa – all made from a synthetic fabric that closely resembles human skin. The outcome: a fashion statement that embodies our instinctive reaction of awkward disgust and explores the effects of commodifying (what looks like) human skin.