For as long as Swedish designer Simon Skinner can remember, he\u2019d combed his hair with the picks his mother gave him. But when he first set out to buy his own, he found grooming products for black hair in Stockholm to be few and far between.\u00a0\nSkinner went to...
Each of the eight picks is named after a person of African heritage whom the designer spent time with during the research phase
For as long as Swedish designer Simon Skinner can remember, he’d combed his hair with the picks his mother gave him. But when he first set out to buy his own, he found grooming products for black hair in Stockholm to be few and far between. Skinner went to the root of the issue, devising a playful set of ‘Afropicks’, created using laser-cutting, casting and 3D-printing to spice up the conventional form, and celebrate Sweden’s diversity and black identity. First shown in the Hemma Gone Wild exhibition by Swedish Design Moves during Milan Design Week in 2019, Skinner aspired to ‘interpret and convey complex feelings of identity into each comb.
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