Fashion repurposing has gotten out of hand recently.
A woman once went viral for using yeast from her yeast infection to bake bread, then a fashion student went viral for making clothes out of discarded fish skin for her graduate collection.
And now, as if things couldn't get any weirder, a woman started making jewelry out of her own bacteria!
That's not something you mention and then just gloss over. We HAVE to talk about it. This home "baker's" name is Zoe Stavri.
“Waking up on Saturday with the familiar itchy burny fanny, I giggled to myself, 'Maybe I could make bread with that,’" the outspoken feminist, Zoe, wrote on her blog, Another Angry Woman.
It gets even more interesting: "And then I got curious, and the next thing that happened was I was scraping white goop off of a dildo into a bowl of flour mixed with water.”
Many branded her actions as “unhygienic and unsanitary.” Zoe, however, defended her choice, saying that, well, yeast is yeast. You can get it at the store or from your vagina, she contested.
She also called the internet's disgust an example of misogyny. “It probably doesn’t matter that my sourdough may or may not contain any actual vaginal yeast," she wrote. "The very idea of it seems to horrify people more than enough."
Chloe Fitzpatrick is a design graduate of the University of Dundee.
She's gone viral, racking up millions of views, for creating jewelry from her own bacteria and the bacteria of plants.
"I wanted to help people appreciate bacteria,” Chloe told STV News. “It’s all around us – inside and on our bodies, on plants, everything we touch. I wanted to help people acknowledge it, as a piece of nature and as a piece of art,” she said.
She starts by collecting the bacteria and culturing it using agar plates. This allows the pieces to grow separately. After the colonies have multiplied, they form into colors, and then she uses UV resin to create shapes.
In one shot, she took a sample from her armpit and then her ribs. She even made jewelry out of her butt.
"I find this fascinating," one wrote. "we love a woman in STEM," added a second.
Meanwhile, some weren't too enthralled. "This makes me EXTREMELY uncomfy," one wrote. "Shower," added another.
“It would be really interesting,” she said. “Everyone’s bacteria would be a different colour – white, orange, pink – I’d quite like to expand the technique into wearable pieces, since at this point it is solely art.”
