Sharkskin Designer Gloves Are a Real Pain to Take Off

If you’re looking for a pair of comfortable designer gloves, stay away from Sruli Recht’s pain-inducing mitts. The Australian designer used an inner lining made of basking shark skin, which features thousands of hook-like scales. From the outside, Sruli Recht’s Lasting Impression looks like a nice and soft basking shark skin glove, but there’s a thorny surprise waiting inside […]

Designer Covers $500,000 Gold Ring with a Piece of His Own Skin

The Forget Me Knot gold ring created by Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht is not your usual piece of luxury jewelry. The artist had a strip of his own skin surgically removed and mounted on a 24-karat-gold band. We’ve featured some pretty bizarre jewelry on Oddity Central in the past, like the human-bone accessories of Columbine […]