Skulls and Bugs

Iconoculture: Shiny, colorful, and, oh yeah, bugged out. Still, Weevil Bangles boast a certain creature charm. The Lucite bracelets feature real bugs as design elements. Maxilla and Mandible specializes in gruesome “museum specimen” delights, like skull beads, candy crickets, and curious rocks and fossils (Frommer’s New York Guide 2005). But its Weevil Bangles are attracting fashion lab rats (Lucky 9.05). Black, pink, yellow, green, or clear-backed Lucite surrounds four iridescent weevils or metallic Thai shield bugs. If bugs creep you out, here’s a fashion heads-up: 25-year-old Pratt grad Hiroshi Kure’s Neolithic-terrific resin skulls are already the ring thing in Japan and are starting to break big stateside (Jane 9.05).
Bug bracelets? Skull rings? Think of it as the avenging return of punky Victorian Goth or just a thrilling splash of “dark.” For fashionable consumers, wearing the unexpected is more than a cause for conversation. It’s a fun walk on the Dark Side.
Fashion Bugs [Iconoculture]