WATCH: 'Human skin boots' worth $10,000 unveiled by fashion brand | Lifestyle.INQ

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: Instagram/@matieresfecales
Image: Instagram/@matieresfecales

Have you ever wondered what human skin boots look like? One fashion label from Montreal, Canada offers a customized pair starting at $10,000 (around P536,000).

Fecal Matter, a company established by the couple Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran who are known for their bizarre, otherworldly Instagram aesthetics, created their most ambitious project to date — a pair of boots designed to look like human legs and feet.

The couple took to Instagram on Friday, Oct. 26, to share a video and photo of Dalton wearing their latest creation. “It’s real,” the page stated.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpXdiKrlzeV/?taken-by=matieresfecales

At first glance, one will not suspect that the boots are made from anything but human skin. It looks too real, one may think it is a normal pair of feet with vestigial features. Aside from the horns for heels, what looks like vestigial tails on the back of one’s calves and the plastic platform supporting the feet’s soles, people may easily dismiss the footwear as real legs and feet.

In another video which the fashion label posted on Saturday, Oct. 27, Dalton was seen walking using the boots.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpaSCsUFFcM/?taken-by=matieresfecales

The couple worked with artist Sarah Sitkin in creating the human skin boots, as per a Vogue report on Thursday, Oct. 25. Sitkin also shared a photo of the boots on Instagram on Saturday.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpaWLohDQN7/?hl=en

The human skin boots were made using silicon that was shaped and molded to match Dalton’s leg, the report said. The four trials executed to perfect the footwear ensured that the hue, dents, moles, arch of the foot and body hair are all exact copies of Daltons’.

“The shoe is like when you are going to Chanel to get a wedding dress. You get the fittings and the customizations,” Dalton told the magazine, describing the process done to make the pricey customized boots. “For even me to get the shoe, I have to stand and each of my legs have to be perfectly molded.” Kate Matriano/JB

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