World 40, Exploration A

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Fashion magazine article featuring animal fur.
Magazine article about the use of animal and human hair in weaving and embroidery to create long-lasting clothes without harm to the environment.
Article on the inner workings of haute couture, featuring seasonal staples to keep you on trend.
Styling ideas for braiding hair, adding beads, and using cat fur, highland cow hair or curly sheep’s wool.

This 3-page magazine spread delves into different topics showcasing the use of hair and animal fibres in World 40, applied in the context of fashion. The magazine spread provides an overview of how new ideals of material disposal are in focus and how this is integrated in a multitude of ways to integrate with the human body.

This Exploration was contributed by Henrietta Styles, Heidi Salmon, Thanacha Chusakul and Natasha Susilo (located in the UK), developed from a World contributed by Elaine Igoe, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.

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