... One of the most recent fashion trends originated in the well known Colony street Penthouse, and was developed by Dr. Robert Savage, owner of the World Art Association. Nobel prize winner for medical advances and discovery of the Altern Protein. 

The Altern protein allows living cells to work with and maintain foreign DNA. This protein made it possible to replace failing human organs with and receive blood transfusions from any animal species. It also allows a person with any blood type to accept blood or organs of any other blood type. A great advancement in the area of plastic surgery, Altern has led the world in it's latest trends of self expression, commercial mutation.

Mutation: graphing of animal skin and/or limbs to the human body. Teens, obsessed with self mutilation and the glorification of expressed individualism, sacrifice all reason and convenience in order to look like nothing else on earth.

The wear eagles’ wings

and leopards’ skins.

and three arms.

and four thumbs.

They call it art…

---Excerpt from The Expressions of Individuality by Julia North