This Model Really Is A Heifer. Jean Baptiste-Mondino's Cow Photos For A Oh La Vache!

On display at The Milk Factory is a series of black and white photos by fashion photographer Jean Baptiste-Mondino of a Holstein Cow named Hermione donning hats designed by a UK milliner.



This series of 21 black and white photos was initially designed for an exhibit in Philippe Starck's Hudson Hotel but according to La Lettre de la Photographie, the hotel managers were not amused and the portraits were quickly relegated to the stables. Now, through the end of April, the images are on view in Paris.

"Oh la vache!" by Jean-Baptiste Mondino:




















images courtesy of The Milk Factory and La Lettre de la Photographie




Oh la vache!
Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Until April 28, 2012

A Claude Deloffre idea
Scenography by Clémence Farrell

MILK Factory
5 rue Paul Bert
Paris 75011

Tentacles, Fungi & Anatomy Cast In Fine Metals. The Very Cool Jewelry of Peggy Skemp.

Peggy Skemp has a knack for turning things that are usually considered creepy into beautiful, detailed jewelry. Anatomical hearts, musculature, lungs, brains, tentacles, squid, octopus and fungi are hand cast in everything from 18k gold to bronze.



All types of sterling - high polished, antiqued and blackened as well as bronze versions of her pieces are available. Some are even studded with diamonds or gemstones.

Anatomical Collection

Lung locket necklace:


Lung pendant necklace closed and open on model:

Anatomical heart pendants, lockets and rings:







Thigh muscles pendant necklace:

Muscle rings and pendants:


Dendrite and Neuron necklaces and bracelet:


Brain rings:



Tentacle Collection

Sterling silver tentacle pendants:

Yellow and white bronze tentacle pendants:

Sterling silver tentacle necklace with black diamonds:


Blackened sterling silver tentacle pendant with diamonds:

Blackened Silver tentacle ring with diamonds:

Sterling Silver tentacles rings:


Sterling tentacle stack rings, without and with diamonds:

Sterling squid rings:

Sterling octopus ring with gemstone eyes:

Sterling silver tentacle earrings with and without gemstones:

Blackened sterling silver tentacle earrings:


Fungi Collection

White and yellow bronze fungi rings:

Blackened and sterling silver fungi rings:

Sterling silver fungi pendant and ring:


About Peggy
Peggy learned metalsmithing and gemology at The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) before going on to earn a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where her focus was sustainable design. In between, she also studied natural science at De Paul. Having grown up in rural southeastern Minnesota, she currently lives and works in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, at home in her menagerie of ungovernable succulents, cacti, and hanging ferns.


Peggy Skemp Jewelry