Designer makes a leather ring from his own flesh

DesignerSruli Rechtcreates experimental mode that often have as much to do with where his materials come from as what the final product looks like . For example , he ’s woven horsehair garments , tanned the leather of unsuccessful lambs , and extracted silk from a spider ’s silk secretory organ implant in a goat ’s Milk River duct . As part of his late accumulation , Recht decided to put himself into one of the piecesin a very real agency .

Recht had a 110 millimeter x 10 mm striptease of pelt surgically remove from his belly ( the not so squeamish can watch telecasting of the operating theater above ) and then salted and tan it with an alum result before go up it on a 24 - karat gold set . The purchaser of this anthropodermic leather ring , titled “ Forget Me Knot ” and priced at € 350,000 , will receive a DNA credential and a DVD of the making - of process .

It seems unmatched to fag out a pack made from a alien ’s skin , but I could sure enough see folks exchanging nuptials bands made from their own skin . All that fuzz might get a bit distracting , though .