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∆ Bag in T-Rex Leather™ - Lot 21

∆ Bag in T-Rex Leather™ T-Rex Cellular Leather™, silver buckle adjustment cast using the lost-wax technique and set with natural black diamonds, cold-forged silver element inspired by the DNA double helix, silver element bearing the brand's hallmark, EtaProof Swiss cotton, Japanese-made Shindo nylon strap, Swiss-made Riri zippers. One-of-a-kind Enfin Levé, 2026 26 x 18 cm Exhibitions : - Presented at the Art Zoo Museum, Amsterdam, April 2, 2026 The world's first creation made from T-Rex Leather™, this bag occupies a singular place at the frontier of fashion, contemporary art, paleontology and materials research. By virtue of its unique status, the very nature of its material and the exacting standards of its production, it falls less into the category of accessory than that of manifest object. For centuries, the most sought-after leathers have often been those from rare, exotic or hard-to-get animals. Their prestige stemmed precisely from this distance, this part of the inaccessible that transformed the hide into a sign of power, wealth and distinction. But this fascination with the most exceptional materials also accompanied, and sometimes exacerbated, the rarefaction of many species exploited for their leather. With T-Rex Leather™, this ancient relationship to the rare and desirable is radically displaced. The material comes not from an extinct animal, but from a cellular leather developed in the laboratory from reconstituted and modeled Tyrannosaurus rex skin proteins, specifically collagen sequences. The evocative power of the name is more than just a linguistic effect: it refers to a new material, conceived as the biological reactivation of a lost world. The object thus summons the most mythical animal in natural history without taking any life from it, making extinction no longer a resource to be consumed, but a biological memory to be reinterpreted in the vocabulary of contemporary luxury. Finally, Levé, an independent fashion house founded by Michal Hadas, has chosen not to treat this material like ordinary precious leather. The bag is built around its own qualities: tension, hold, resistance, visual density. Its compact, almost utilitarian form refuses to be gratuitously ornamental. Each element has a precise function, and the whole is an aesthetic of constraint, where technique becomes language. The sterling silver fittings, designed by Michal Danny Nowak, give the object a sculptural dimension. One of the elements, cold-forged, is inspired by the double helix of DNA, a discreet reminder of the biological and experimental origins of T-Rex Leather™. The adjustment buckle, cast using the lost-wax technique and set with natural black diamonds, acts as an articulation piece that is both mechanical and precious. Another silver element, bearing the brand's hallmark, finally places the object in the tradition of signed pieces, where technical detail becomes an author's mark. A fashion object by its destination, a work of design by its conception, a collector's item by its uniqueness, this bag condenses several temporalities: that of the dizzying Tyrannosaurus rex; that of contemporary materials research; and finally, that of luxury, when it still manages to produce not a variation, but an apparition.

Estimación:€300,000.00

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