Design

Jewelry Inspired By the Looming Oil Crisis

When oil becomes as valuable as gold, will we wear it like gold?
Katrin Spranger

When oil becomes as valuable as gold, will we wear it like gold?

Sweden's Katrin Spranger likes to think so. Inspired by the coming fossil-fuels drought, she's created of viscous jewelry line ("Best Before") made from hardened, jet-black petroleum. In an artist's statement, she explains why she created this burnable fashion: