Skinbag organic, er, skin, bags
Skinbag products are made from synthetic skin. Synthetic human skin. Complete with moles, tattoos, wrinkles and scars. Available in all the shades of human skin - or, as they say, "red, white, black, dark, mixed". It is nothing like the smooth latex used for surgical gloves and condoms which act as a ‘second skin’ in a form of protection. Reactions range from disgust and incomprehension, to comparing it to a "portable placenta", to implying it is like external sexual organs.
All Skinbag objects are tailor made, of course, available as typical handbags but also aprons, belts, and more conventional forms of clothing. "I have never believed in a sterile environment in the way the environment and the simulations in computer generated images would like us to think. Tomorrow’s world will not be super-clean. We do not get away that fast from our bodies, this organic pile that we are…it is in this matter that our self is constructed: blood, flesh, fat, neurones and all these complex and soft matter constituting the support which allows us to face the world. It is not the organic factor that will become digital, but digital technology which will become organic". [GT]
