{"id":4020,"date":"2009-10-23T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T22:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2009-10-23T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T22:39:45","slug":"bacterias-got-you-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/bacterias-got-you-covered","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria&#8217;s Got You Covered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i13.photobucket.com\/albums\/a295\/Sugoygabba\/InvisibleMembranebySonjaBumel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" \/>Austrian designer Sonja B\u00c3\u00a4umel has created conceptual pieces of clothing meant to remind us of &#8212; get this &#8212; <em>the b<\/em><em>acteria that is constantly on our skin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her project, (In)visible Membrane, explores the idea that the healthy, natural human body is host to thousands of bacteria &#8212; a fact which we, especially in our hysteria over swine flu, would like <em>very<\/em> much to forget. \u00c2\u00a0Like it or not, our skin is a vast ecosystem for bacteria, which B\u00c3\u00a4umel visualizes (quite beautifully) as covering us like a delicate net of lace-like spray.<\/p>\n<p>We love the symbolism behind B\u00c3\u00a4umel&#8217;s pieces (especially the opera-length openwork gloves, which we would love to wear), because we agree that it&#8217;s important to be aware of everything that is around &#8212; and on &#8212; us, in order to understand how we as humans fit into the Big Picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2009\/10\/22\/invisible-membrane-by-sonja-baumel\/#more-46096\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a> {Dezeen}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian designer Sonja B\u00c3\u00a4umel has created conceptual pieces of clothing meant to remind us of &#8212; get this &#8212; the bacteria that is constantly on our skin. Her project, (In)visible Membrane, explores the idea that the healthy, natural human body is host to thousands of bacteria &#8212; a fact which we, especially in our hysteria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[612,185,608,6846,610,611,609,606,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}