Alexander McQueen always made handbags to die for. But would he approve of one that he could have, literally, died for?
Hopefully he would, because an artist wants to make a leather handbag using the designer’s skin.
Tina Gorjanc, from Central Saint Martin’s art school, has produced a project, complete with patents, describing plans to use DNA extracted from McQueen’s hair to make his skin in a laboratory using cutting-edge biotechnology.
At present growing enough skin to craft a full handbag would probably be prohibitively expensive, although arguably not compared with what McQueen, who died in 2010, used to charge…
