Fish Skin Shoes: Weird, New Craze (PHOTOS)

The Financial Times fashion editor Vanessa Friedman just declared that exotic skins and furs are having a renaissance. "Turns out," she announced in the Weekend FT, "in the current climate, as people think two and 10 times about what they buy and whether they need to buy it, it is the odd and outre (and often the obscure) that is proving the exception to the rule."

Recently in London I discovered a designer who single-handedly is striving to make fish skin the next collectible. I have long loved those rare items that are beautifully made but that don't star in advertising campaigns or show up on other women at parties... Keep Reading

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[fleaba]

Actually Alaskan natives used salmon skins for clothing and shoes.