Dezeen s top 10 unconventional fashion designs of 2020
Overlapping layers of skin-like rolls that have been hand-stitched from jersey and cotton and filled with wadding, beanbag beans and sand make up these playful bodysuits by textile artist Daisy May Collingridge.
The squishy flesh suits were designed as a celebration of the human body in all its forms, and aim to deny the idea that there is an ideal body type.
Spanish artist SiiGii used latex to create this wearable, inflatable lilo that enables people with sun allergy to float on the surface of the water in the summer without having a reaction.
BBC comedy chief Shane Allen on why the Corporation set up a Comedy Association
British comedy is one of our greatest cultural triumphs exported the world over; from Chaplin to Fleabag it’s something we’re exceptional at. Laughter is one of life’s great joys - it unites and connects us, benefits mental health and defines our national character. Yet British comedy is facing unprecedented challenges.
BBC Comedy has evolved to meet the needs of a comedy landscape transformed by the US streaming services accelerating the battle for British talent, but the events of the last nine months have decimated the live comedy scene which is the lifeblood of TV comedy.
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Three lots of six episodes and one special: 280 minutes, in mockumentary format, of some of the most tender, densely written, hysterically funny television you are ever likely to see. It was created by siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, and follows the tiny trials and tribulations that dance comically atop the underlying tragedies of early twentysomething cousins Kerry (Daisy May) and Lee “Kurtan” Mucklowe (Charlie) in the small village somewhere between Swindon (reachable if you plan and prepare carefully enough) and Bristol, which ranks in the Mucklowe mind somewhere between Sodom and Gomorrah.
“Spanner-handed” Kerry is a dedicated self-mythologiser who hangs out with year 7s to maintain the necessary sense of superiority it requires. Kurtan is a perilous few per cent brighter than she and, in the first series especially, it is his occasional, fleeting feeling that life might somewhere, somehow be something you could control,