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Cockroach as Living Jewelry.

By Alex in Animal, Fashion, Pictures on Oct 9, 2006 at 11:59 pm


From the website:

If you love jewelry and you love insects you’re in luck. Local fashion designer Jared Gold has both available at his Black Chandelier store in Trolley Square.

Gold sells crystal studded brooches made from living Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

"They’re Austrian Swarovski crystals and they come in all sorts of colors and each roach has his little pattern on them so they’re all individual" says the avant garde designer.

Gold says his company buys insects from a breeder in Los Angeles. A co-worker actually sticks the crystals to the back of every bug. Its a painstaking task that involves what he calls, "a secret process."

They go for forty dollars each, and Gold says they’re selling like hotcakes. But, what will animals rights activists say?

ABC4 Article | Jared’s website – Thanks Tiffany!

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  1. Steve Fox
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 12:58 am

    I've seen 'em! I live only a block away from Trolley Corners (it's a upper class twit mall) They are really neat though. can't believe someone would actually buy one though.

  2. Miss Cellania
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 5:05 am

    Jewelry that you have to feed?

  3. Dr.A
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 9:15 am

    I read about this type of jewellery in a sci-fi story many years ago - I never thought it would become fact.

  4. ted
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 9:15 am

    That's go to make 'em harder to bite into.
    No thanks. I wouldn't want to chip a tooth.

  5. Jake
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 12:27 pm

    Is that Johnny Depp modeling the 'CockBrooch'?

  6. Matt
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 12:56 pm

    This kinda stupidity makes me wanna slap somebody.

    I really worry about the state of mankind when I read something as stupid as this.

  7. sam
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 1:50 pm

    that's disgusting. Do you let it just crawl on you or do you tie it on or something?

  8. Rose
    Oct 10th, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    Hmm, I wonder what Peta thinks of this? LOl

  9. sam
    Oct 12th, 2006 at 2:25 pm

    What happens when the roache sheds it's skin? They do that every few weeks.

  10. jeremy
    Oct 13th, 2006 at 9:56 am

    the secret process is likely a freezer - there was a photograper i came across a while back who was painting cockroaches and would simply stick them in the freezer for a while to make them sit still long enough to paint them....

  11. loveto69gal
    Aug 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    that's soo disgusting who would want to wear a dirty filthy cockroach, people get called piggish and filfty everday because they have roaches in their homes that's soooooo disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! common now you people who even thought of doing such a thing need to be put in a damn mental hospital forreal....

  12. riann
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    i have 3 of these roaches (sans the jewels) and they are all quite clean. i really don't see what's disgusting about this. if they got loose in your house they'd do everthing they could to get outside, they're not pests like the german cockroach.

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