Horse shoes, by Iris Schieferstein

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Horse shoes with zipper

Iris Schieferstein creates shoes out of the hooves of horses, stuffed doves and snake bodies (head included). Iris was recently part of an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. Her famous horses shoes were on posters all over Paris, announcing the exhibition.

So how exactly does one make shoes out of dead animals? Well, Schieferstein first obtains carcasses from her Berlin butcher and spends a week removing any meat and bones from the animals. She then sets the skin around a shoe model, and from that point on, it’s all Schieferstein’s creativity…