My Design Stories has the scoop on these handsome shoes:
British studio fantich and young have re-interepreted the humble dinner shoe by replacing a regular rubber sole with hundreds of dentures. The ‘apex predator shoe’ transforms the elegant savile row oxford shoe, inlaying 1050 fake teeth and accompanies an entire suit made of human hair and glass eyes.
As the citizen on dirty.ru who posted this image put it: "What is there else to say?".
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