Alice Potts Turns Bodily Fluids Into Fashion.

Alice Potts' ballet pumps in sweat-made crystals
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The designer, known for adorning garments with crystals made from sweat, is beginning her one-year Onassis Foundation residency with an exhibition at the Biennale Athens.

ATHENS, Greece — Starting tomorrow, visitors of the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens will be able to enter a gym space and a rave dancefloor, where they are actively encouraged to run, cycle, dance, bond and — most importantly — sweat together.

This highly interactive, immersive exhibition is crucial to the work of 2018 Royal College of Art graduate Alice Potts, who, during her Master’s degree in collaboration with medical scientists at Imperial College, developed a method using human sweat to create crystal embellishments. The result is a range of visually striking garments, encrusted in unique zero-waste crystals, many pigmented with natural dyes such as pH-sensitive red cabbage.

By Rachel Deeley.

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