What This Leather Is Made Of Will Shock And Horrify You!

Some people have some extreme fashion sense, this artist takes this line of clothing to a whole new stomach-churning level! These innocent look clothes and accessories will open your mind to a horrifying possibility.

#1 Move over Leather Face! Human skin is in!

Tina Gorjanc, a recent graduate from Slovenia, developed the idea of creating a collection made from âÂ€Â˜human leather,' which is made in a laboratory using McQueen's DNA. McQueen used his own hair in the labels of his first collection, and the owner of these pieces has agreed to give Gorjanc one hair in order to extract his genetic information for her research.

#2 Tina's even picky about whose skin she uses.

Alexander McQueen is one of Central Saint Martins' star alumni. The designer, who tragically died in 2010, is held up by students at the legendary fashion establishment as a design hero. One student hasn't just been inspired by the late designers' genius, however; she has embarked on a project to see if she could use DNA as a fabric.

#3 She's even patented the dead guys skin.

In this year's Central St Martins degree show, Tina Gorjanc is showcasing a proposal to create handbags and other designer accessories from the skin of the celebrated couture designer Alexander McQueen, who died in 2010. Gorjanc has filed a patent for the method that would grow cell cultures from his DNA, extract skin cells, and tan the resulting remake of McQueen's skin into leather for luxury goods.

#4 It's not the first time.

Italian artist Diemut Strebe has already regrown a living "clone" of Van Gogh's ear with DNA obtained from a member of the Van Gogh family.

#5 In fact, it's taking it back... way back.

Old science collections are full of such gothic delights as preserved human arteries and flayed bodies. Some Catholic churches preserve pickled body parts of saints.

#6 There is a point to it, though.

Tina wants to bring awareness to a big issue that's about to open up because of a jump in technology. The fact that you can patent someone else's genetic information is central to her point. She has no plans to make the collection for commercial purposes, but aims to demonstrate how genetic information could potentially be exploited.

#7 Her thoughts on it.

"The project is about how our biological information isn't protected, there are huge gaps in legislation because the technologies are evolving so quickly, because of those loop holes we are able to extract genetic information from a human source- and it can be someone else's - and then produce something out of it like a product and then patent it. When you do that you patent material, that is including someone else's genetic information, which is an interesting concept."

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