For some (obvious) reason the late Aussie fashionplate Leigh Bowery comes to mind when I see these images of people wearing French designer Sascha Nordmeyer‘s HyperLips.
According to Los Angeles-based Artecnica—who plan to put these grotesque puppies into mass production—“Conceived for people who are just looking for a bit of fun, the prosthesis is a rigid food-safe apparatus that forces a facial expression onto its wearer.”
Living in Los Angeles and with all the plastic surgery disasters I’m exposed to on a daily basis, I’ve seen plenty of people who look exactly like this without wearing anything.
Below, Conrad Veidt, playing a man whose mouth was mutilated into a hideous fixed grin, is unveiled at a freak show in this scene from 1928’s The Man Who Laughs