2013 LM/2599GP Object Dyed Kangaroo Leather Prosthetic Jacket

Carol Christian Poell is an Austrian designer, born in Linz into a family of leather makers, who studied in Vienna and Milan and started his label in Milan in 1994. He works largely without seasons, advertising or interviews, and no designer has gone further into material: he knitted a sweater from tanned pig intestines, wove neckties from human hair, shaped a bag from the skin of a whole pig so it kept the animal's form, set human teeth into silver jewelry, dyed leather in bull's blood, and had dye injected into the veins of animals before slaughter so the vascular pattern froze into the hide. His collections have been shown closer to installation than runway, garments floated down a Milan canal, models suspended in a stairwell. The work runs on construction: seamless knitwear, object dyeing, and leathers finished by methods he developed himself.

Main: kangaroo leather 100%, object dyed. Lining: cotton 100%. Hardware: titanium prosthetic inserts; YKK zippers with CCP stamped snap pull tabs.

Do not wash. Have it cleaned by a leather specialist only. Hang on a wide-shouldered coat hanger, away from sun and heat. Store dry and keep out of standing rain. Before conditioning, test a neutral cream on a hidden spot, then condition sparingly.