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Fashion designers, at least the successful ones, need to constantly be on the cutting edge, and ahead of the curve on upcoming trends. But what if some of the most successful brands in the industry got involved with a food trend that is so last year?
In yet another attempt to discourage the meat eater, Swiss collective Postfossil created a collection of housewares called “Trattoria Utopia“. Recently on display at the Milan furniture fair, part of the series includes a set of useless silverware consisting of round-tined forks and a dull unpolished knife — neither of which appears capable of penetrating warm butter, much less a NY strip.
And not unlike PETA’s less than subtle attempts to piss on the carnivore’s campfire, the impractical utensils were created merely as an attempt to discourage and provoke — not necessarily to be mass-produced and sold at Crate & Barrel.
[link, via Co. Design]
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