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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Malignant Mole Bikini: Fashionable, Educational

Filed under: Dermatology


Fiona Carswell, artist, graphic designer and creator of the smoking jacket with lungs, really understands how to motivate people towards better health. Another of her fabulous creations is swim wear, that when exposed to sunlight, begins to display patches of malignant melanoma. True, cancerous moles on swimsuits probably won't win any fashion awards in the near future, but it definitely gets the point across. Perhaps the general theme could be applied to children's clothes to help signify to parents when their children need to come in out of the sun...

Malignant Mole Bikini...

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This is all so fracking stupid. There are millions of people around the world in tropical climates who spend a large amount of time exposed to the sun and few of them ever develop any skin cancer. Of course all these people have one thing in common...dark skin.


Posted by: Khurt Williams
on May 24, 2007 04:02 AM GMT

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