Fins of Fashion: The Alaskan Artist Creating Salmon Skin Stilettos
Fins of Fashion: The Alaskan Artist Creating Salmon Skin Stilettos
As a member of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe in Alaska, artist Joel Isaak grew up intimately connected to the land—hunting, fishing, and spending the bulk of his time outdoors. Today, Isaak uses those experiences to create beautiful handmade objects and clothing out of fish skin. Using a mixture of traditional and modern techniques, he has fashioned a variety of unique objects, including masks, high heels, dresses and even a motorcycle jacket. And just as his ancestors did, Isaak catches, skins, tans and consumes all of the fish that he uses in his art.
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But can u eat it, skins my favorite part.
The tastiest Shoes I ever seen
Seems kinda fishy
"It’s a living material"…the skin of a dead fish.
But salmon skin tasted so good 😢…….
Please marry me..
Sponsored by Toyota
fish skin tastes so good tho (fried) neat stuff anyhow
Oh yeah, let’s just take more food from wildlife that depend on it. It’s like animal fur, but with fish.
Can u eat it? It looks crispy lol
I wanted to press dislike for intrusive car ad, but then saw his products and I feel bad I can’t dislike twice.
Does anyone know if the fish skins stink?
Looks like clothing made out of Pringles…
You can’t be serious!
Those are the most grotesque, sloppiest things I’ve ever seen.
one guess who sponsored this
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Looks like Shit
That Camry is 🔥🔥🔥
Vagina tambourine
Do you must be smelly all the time
How’s your mom Joel?
Yew fish skin mask I wonder how bad it must have smell 🤢
something smell fishy 🙂
This High Heels look terrible – like they are just wraped in the Skin and fixated – he would not find a proper shoemaker?
was that a windsock? I LOVE IT. that’s what I would use it for. 🙂
gg ez
In the begging it reminded me of a Toyota add lol
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My feet already smell bad as is
In this sense Ed Gein was also an artist.
Brought to you by toyota camry
Better than snakes skin
this turned into a tayota ad really fast lol
Alaska is probably the coolest state
I suddenly felt the urge to buy a Camry. But I’m not sure why
I thought he was salt bae
Can you make me swim trunks and I can make some fish friends.
He must eat a lot of fish.
That Camry looks scarily like a Lexus.
alaska looks gorgeous. his art is amazing. those clothes out of fish skin is a really good idea than killing almost extinct animals.
We deep fried it and turn it to snack in Thailand….
um… salmon skins are fucking delicious?
1:25 Kanye!?
This smells fishy
Genius work hehe 😄👍🏻
White people are wearing my food?!??
This guy is why salmon are going extinct
that’s barbaric
Whoa, where do you get a set net site with nobody else around?
I was wondering why this started like a car commercial, then i saw its sponsored by camry. Great video overall btw
Does he make underwear too?