Cate Blanchett was last night photographed at the Los Angeles premiere of Borderlands in a halter-neck top [Ellen Hodakova] Larsson’s team had constructed from 102 spoons, each one sourced from in and around Stockholm.

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    The article doesn’t mention anything about the weight, so to satisfy my own curiosity I just got a rough measurement of the weight of a spoon head (I didn’t remove the handle from the spoons I measured, so instead I let the handle rest on the counter, off the scale). Based on what I could come up with, that many spoon heads would weigh between 1.5 and 2 kilograms. Which seems quite high, and many of the spoons on that outfit look quite a bit larger than the ones I measured (although they might be thinner or a lighter metal).

    I wonder if the designer did anything to dampen the noise as well, because that many spoons rattling with every step seems like it would be quite loud.

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      It looks like the handles might just be bent around, and not cut off. So you might have been better off just measuring the whole spoon.

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    It’s just a blouse and not an entire dress. Looks kind of like chain mail. Kinda cool actually, though i wonder about comfort and how heavy it was.

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        Looking at the photo thumbnail, the photo is cut off at the waist. So, without opening the link, it might not be clear if it’s a dress. A dress might be super heavy made from spoons. Knowing it’s blouse length makes more sense. I shouldn’t be having to explain this, but here I am.

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          I shouldn’t be having to explain this, but here I am

          Shockingly enough, a bunch of strangers on the internet aren’t automatically going to understand your specific perspective until you explain it.

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    I imagine it would be awkward if you wore that to more than one event.

    Easy way to go from ‘cutting edge’ to ‘Oh, that spoon lady.’

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    this makes me think of the weird socially awkward kid when I was in school. he’d wear weird shit or do stupid things to get a reaction.