Outrageous Underwear

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Artist creates the world's most outrageous bras and corsets made from shells and deer antlers
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Bra artist Laura Ann Jacobs reckons our society is so 'breast-obsessed' she created these incredible intricate sculptures
of the fanciest looking brassieres ever

This piece is called A Conch-scious She Shell II

The stunning 'Wallflowers' range features corsets, knickers and bras...made with real deer antlers!

Also making them stand out firmly are materials like antique glass and mother of pearl. This piece is titled A Conch-scious She Shell


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Laura, from San Francisco, USA, has made over 100 pieces and sells them to art buyers around the world. She came up with the idea after musing
on the boob-job obsessed women of California and Florida. This is one is called Bras That Pinch

She said: "Women have it good these days with so many ways to make themselves look better, but our desire to be desired is also a slippery slope"

"It used to be corsets, hoop skirts and foot binding, then makeup and hair dying. Now it's fat sucking, silicone injecting, and skin lifting"


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She adds, "we are restricted from top to toe by more than just the garment now, our very own bodies are paying the price of societal persuasion"

"My work pokes fun at the lengths we women go to attract"

Pinnacles of Success


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Some of the pieces take a gruelling nine months to make as Laura works mosaics and porcelain cakes and pastries into the headless busts

Talented Laura first began making wearable bras produced from silicone to encourage women to wear the material on the outside of their breasts
instead of stuffing it inside to make them bigger

Now the Wallflowers sculptures, seen in these pictures and which are not wearable, are being scooped up as decorations for homes and offices

Laura Ann Jacobs at work


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