This is kinda gross:

This bizarre new range of shoes may make the owner feel like they have one foot in the grave – they are made from dead animals. Designer Iris Schieferstein, 45, spends months creating high heel horse hooves, stilettos from snake skins and sandals sculpted from doves. In one particularly weird pair, the rearing doves have been stuffed and the and the wearer has to slide their toes between the bird’s legs.

The horse boots feature the hoof still intact with a bone used for a heel. Iris collects the dead animals from her local butcher in Berlin, Germany, including dead horses, which are used for sausages in the country.

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Those are hideous!

I haven’t stopped buying leather altogether (though I’ve cut down considerably over the years) as despite not eating meat, I accept that other folks do, and the leather we use generally comes from cows slaughtered for food. At least there is less waste.

But this is ridiculous. And gross.

I went to buy cowboy boots when I was in Texas. It seemed a great souvenir. As I was trying on a different boots, the salesman started telling me the different animals that were killed for each pair – frogs, snakes, manta rays, etc. That man talked himself OUT of a sale.

CarrieMpls said:

Those are hideous!

I haven’t stopped buying leather altogether (though I’ve cut down considerably over the years) as despite not eating meat, I accept that other folks do, and the leather we use generally comes from cows slaughtered for food. At least there is less waste.

But this is ridiculous. And gross.

I went to buy cowboy boots when I was in Texas. It seemed a great souvenir. As I was trying on a different boots, the salesman started telling me the different animals that were killed for each pair – frogs, snakes, manta rays, etc. That man talked himself OUT of a sale.

Hi Babe..

I agree these are gross

Those are the worst things I've ever seen!

And I'm having a real problem with being able to see the human foot in that 3rd pair.

banks said:

CarrieMpls said:

Those are hideous!

I haven’t stopped buying leather altogether (though I’ve cut down considerably over the years) as despite not eating meat, I accept that other folks do, and the leather we use generally comes from cows slaughtered for food. At least there is less waste.

But this is ridiculous. And gross.

I went to buy cowboy boots when I was in Texas. It seemed a great souvenir. As I was trying on a different boots, the salesman started telling me the different animals that were killed for each pair – frogs, snakes, manta rays, etc. That man talked himself OUT of a sale.

Hi Babe..

I agree these are gross

Hello there.

Yowsa! I used to think there were no limits to Avant-garde dressing- but for me, this would definitely be it...

I'm pretty sure all my shoes are made from dead animals (to some degree). My sole objection to these (no pun intended) is that they're just plain hideous.

when i get shoes i try to get plain leather - i never go 4 snake skin, croc, or fur - even if its not real i still dont like that look

those things r over the top, ugly and should have never been produced ~ just goes 2 show how demented ppl can b

now i am going to go throw up

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They are first and foremost too ugly to wear, but IMO they are also a little disgusting in their flaunting of the dead-animal

UGG. GULL. LEE.

Well, I'm probably gonna get bitched out but... even though I wouldn't wear these.. art is open to interpretation, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so don't beat me up for stating my opinion . At least these animals weren'tkilled to make the shoes.. like furs and cow boy boots, belts ect.. This is taking recycling to the next level. These scraps from the butcher is making something wearable and not something stinking up a dump. Kinda like going green...

sunflower7 said:

Well, I'm probably gonna get bitched out but... even though I wouldn't wear these.. art is open to interpretation, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so don't beat me up for stating my opinion . At least these animals weren'tkilled to make the shoes.. like furs and cow boy boots, belts ect.. This is taking recycling to the next level. These scraps from the butcher is making something wearable and not something stinking up a dump. Kinda like going green...

I actually agree with this, if the animal is going to be killed, might as well use as much of it as possible.

The birds don't seem like meat by-products though

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WW. How comfortable could hoofs be? What's the price for such art baaaah?

Yuck! I like fur and leather... but ewww. WTF is up with the ugly pistol heels? Actually, every shoe is hideous from every angel, its like the maker(s) of those shoes decided on the ugliest way to make them.

I've never seen snakeskin look so unpolished BTW.... Just awful.

Fuuuuuuckin' ugly.

CarrieMpls said:

Those are hideous!

I haven’t stopped buying leather altogether (though I’ve cut down considerably over the years) as despite not eating meat, I accept that other folks do, and the leather we use generally comes from cows slaughtered for food. At least there is less waste.

But this is ridiculous. And gross.

I went to buy cowboy boots when I was in Texas. It seemed a great souvenir. As I was trying on a different boots, the salesman started telling me the different animals that were killed for each pair – frogs, snakes, manta rays, etc. That man talked himself OUT of a sale.

I am scared to death of snakes and the thought of touching even a snake skin boot makes my skin crawl. I remember one time animal control came out and removed a snake from a neighbor's garage. I asked him what he was going to do with the snake and he said he was going to take it in the ditch and turn it loose. I told him he needed to kill the damn thing so there would never be any chance of it ever finding it's way back and he said "snakes are your friend, they eat rats". I said "the HELL they are, I'd live with a rat before I'd live with a snake any day".

What woman would really want to walk around in a pair of horse or cow hooves? It's like wearing a cow pattern cause animal prints are in. Nobody wants to purposely make horse or cow be the thought when somebody's looking at them. And those birds are greasy looking, not even pretty white fluff, and the expression on their face. Is that horror? Nuh huh, there's just too much going on there, psychologically with all that. A snake's head on your shoes?

I just spit up my bacon cheddar chips this is some nasty, gross shit. No where near being artistic/beautiful shoes at all-just fucking ridiculous.

morningsong said:

What woman would really want to walk around in a pair of horse or cow hooves? It's like wearing a cow pattern cause animal prints are in. Nobody wants to purposely make horse or cow be the thought when somebody's looking at them. And those birds are greasy looking, not even pretty white fluff, and the expression on their face. Is that horror? Nuh huh, there's just too much going on there, psychologically with all that. A snake's head on your shoes?

I love this post!

I like the bird ones, I could pretend I was Mercury.

Aside from them being straight up fugly, my first thought was how sore I would be after falling down a flight of steps of even attempting to put that hideous shit on my foot.

i just think somebody should put them damn birds on and walk around downtown NY and another person could film the response......

StillGotIt said:

i just think somebody should put them damn birds on and walk around downtown NY and another person could film the response......

I bet no one would notice.

banks said:

What the hell is going on with this person's legs???? Did they fight the birds while putting the shoes on?

missfee said:

banks said:

What the hell is going on with this person's legs???? Did they fight the birds while putting the shoes on?

I was just noticing that! Looks like burn scars

I didn't notice that!

I was too busy looking at how her big toes were curled up and too big for those shoes....

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missfee said:

banks said:

What the hell is going on with this person's legs???? Did they fight the birds while putting the shoes on?

no, silly, it's all part of the shoe, made from dead woman!

missfee said:

banks said:

What the hell is going on with this person's legs???? Did they fight the birds while putting the shoes on?

I saw this and thought the same thing.

NDRU said:

missfee said:

What the hell is going on with this person's legs???? Did they fight the birds while putting the shoes on?

no, silly, it's all part of the shoe, made from dead woman!

so THAT's what all that lotion was for!!!