Self-professed "mother of silicone" Beate Karlsson uses the rubbery material to make shoes in the form of human claws and padded shorts that imitate Kim Kardashian's bum in a bid to design never-before-seen items.
The Claw shoes, which have been 3D printed from a mixture of wood fibres and silicone, take the form of a giant human hand propped up on all four fingers and thumb in the gesture of an animal's claw.
Straps moulded from silicone extend from the top of the shoe to form a sandal that the model can walk in, wearing the claws like stilts.
Bows tied across the top of the shoes conceal the wearer's foot to feed the illusion that they are extensions of their legs.
Karlsson's Claw shoes take the form of a giant human hand propped up in a claw gesture The shoes form part of Karlsson's ongoing project titled X-treme Products, which has seen her create various wearable, tongue-in-cheek items for a hypothetical world determined by the idea of "otherness".
The Swedish artist and designer takes literal shapes, like a hand, and distorts them until they are almost unrecognisable before turning them into a functional object.
The Claw shoes have been 3D printed from a mixture of wood fibres and silicone
In addition to the Claw shoes, Karlsson has designed other footwear called Fat Baby Shoes that mimic giant feet in frilly sliders.
Other designs include oversized items of clothes worn as one garment, like an enlarged pair of trousers that rise up to the model's ...