Did you say eyeball jewellery?
Urgh. Don’t ask me why anyone would want to wear this in the name of fashion, but Eric Klarenbeek, a dutch designer, has put eye jewellery on the map. The map of what exactly, I don’t know, but should you feel the need to accessorize your eyes you can attach a crystal-like shape which hangs from an invisible wire from a prescription or dummy lense which glimmers and looks from a distance like you’re crying.
The designer says ‘You can’t feel the wire dangling, it doesn’t affect your sight and the lens moves along gently with your eyeball, even while blinking. It started out as an experiment but I decided to put it into production when I got positive feedback from wearers.’
Either Eric is in dire need of the publicity, or this is a his idea of a joke. Maybe he’s in cahoots with Sacha Baron Cohen’s Austrian gay fashion reporter “Bruno”, currently harassing the fashion world in the name of satire. I can just about see the appeal of coloured contact lenses or gimmicky cats’ eye lenses for fancy dress, but eyeball jewellery is pushing it. Even though EK maintains they are ‘perfectly safe’, eyeball accessorizing is a one look too far.
