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NOT CLAIRE'S ACCESSORIES

Accessories are normally very small, so here are some very small Q&As with four of the zaniest accessory designers around.

Accessories are normally very small, so here are some very small Q&As with four of the zaniest accessory designers around.

Helen Robotham, 26, recently won Fashion Fringe's accessories prize. She's amazing and makes very scary stuff. That's a bag up there.

Vice: Hi. Why does your bag look like that? Helen: It's from my "They Are What They Aren't" MA collection and represents the grotesque shape of consumerism in the 21st century. I always try and create new shapes and forms for my bags and I'm obsessed with spheres, which is, I suppose, the ultimate timeless shape.

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Simona Kaunaite, 28, is from Lithuania. She sells her ceramic noses at No One.

Vice: Why did you make a nose into a necklace?

Simona:

The collection is called The Five Senses – for sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. There is an eye, an ear, a finger, a nose, and some lips. Some people find them a bit ugly and scary.

Gal Stern, 27, runs mad-printed-tights label

Dare to Wear

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Vice: Your printed tights are pretty amazing. Why tights? Gal:

You could say tights chose me; at the end of college I was thinking patterns, shapes, colours and no one has really done much with tights before.

Maria Francesca Pepe, 30, is from Italy and her label, MFP, gets loads of

press

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Vice: Is this jewelry or a headpiece? It's pretty weird.

Maria

: I call it jewelry-wear.

I get the ideas from constantly recording my emotions and images I find, which become these designs.

Photos by Tania Leshkina Stylist: Mischa Notcutt