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Headlines 3/7/00
Pretty deadly Antonio Riello makes the lethal look lovely 1000 extraordinary objects Benetton magazine stages exhibition Street Flyers Sneaky skates let you walk'n'roll Madonna model The ultimate 80s style icon Tartan army hits London Snaps of top Scots News Archive	Gorgeous explosives. © Antonio Riello.	Pretty deadly Italian artist Antonio Riello makes the ultimate in politically incorrect "high fashion accessories for sophisticated ladies". In a project called 'Ladies Weapons', Antonio restyles replicas of deadly weapons into ghetto fabulous 'objets d'art'. Treading a fine line between 'fashion and trash', Antonio mixes the glamour of fashion with culture's perverse and morbid fascination with weaponry. Grenades are sprayed gold or pink (around £1,000), a Beretta pistol is trimmed with fur (around £1,500) and an M16 assault rifle is painted a viscious pink (around £2,000) - all perfect for protecting laydeez from urban fashion danger. Antonio is currently working on two new "super politically incorrect" projects. One concerns an international contemporary art event, the other a video game format artwork about social hypocrisy in the Western world.