CAROL CHRISTIAN POELL'S TEETH EARRINGS RESURFACE ON GRAILED

Carol Christian Poell Does Not Do Fashion Week

Carol Christian Poell has not sent a formal runway show in over a decade, and he still moves silver and dental grade prosthetic teeth into small drops that resell for thousands of dollars. The latest is a pair of silver tooth stud earrings, listed on Grailed by a seller going by xerotolerance, no price disclosed, no drop date attached, just the object and the platform. That absence of ceremony is the whole point. Poell, born in Linz, Austria in 1966 and raised inside his family's Gerberlehre, the Austrian leather tanning trade his father, grandfather and uncle all worked, has run his Milan label since 1995 without a single seasonal calendar appearance.

The thesis here is simple and arguable. The resale market is now the only runway Poell has left, and Grailed is the room where the show happens.

A Prosthetic Molar Is Not a Charm

A charm is decorative. A prosthetic tooth cast in silver and set into an earring is something closer to a relic. Poell's teeth jewelry line uses real dental grade prosthetic teeth, the same material a dentist fits into a denture, mounted in 0.925 silver with a standard butterfly closure on the earring versions. It reads less like a fashion accessory and more like a specimen. That is consistent with the rest of his output: twisted seam trousers, scar stitched leather jackets, and the drip sole boots that look half melted, all built around the same preoccupation with decay, mortality and the body breaking down. Poell trained as a tailor in Vienna before studying fashion design at Milan's Domus Academy, then folded that formal tailoring background into garments engineered to look like they are already failing. In 2004 he staged a show called Mainstream Downstream in Milan's Naviglio Grande canal, floating models face down in the water in garments that ruined themselves on contact, still wearing full hardware and fine leather while the current took over. The teeth are the jewelry version of that same argument, worn on the body instead of watched from a canal bank.

$2,500 for a Necklace Made of Real Dental Work

Poell's teeth pieces do not move quietly. A silver teeth necklace from the same line sold on Grailed for $2,500 and was named the single weirdest listing the platform saw in all of 2020. The earring version, model MF slash 0498, lists new through the Italian retailer Lazzari at 1,077 euros, still handmade in Italy with the same butterfly closure. Against that backdrop, a used pair surfacing under a seller handle like xerotolerance is not noise. It is the same object finding a second owner in a market where Poell pieces routinely outprice their retail tags the moment they are discontinued, because there is no factory restock coming. Grailed has built an entire content arm around exactly this kind of find, publishing a Grailed cover story on Ken Carson the same month a Supreme Tree Camo anorak from 2012 was still fetching $500 on the platform, proof the site treats music and archive fashion as the same beat.

Grailed Is Where This Kind of Thing Actually Sells

Finally Offline has tracked that same Supreme Tree Camo anorak still moving for about $500 on Grailed fourteen years after its release, and the pattern holds here too. Poell does not restock, does not discount, and does not explain himself, so a listing like this one is the only chance a buyer gets. There is no shop link, no price tag visible in the caption, just an item and a seller name, which is exactly how Poell pieces have always changed hands since before Grailed existed as a company.

Buy it if the silhouette and the material actually matter to you, because a prosthetic tooth in silver is not a piece anyone wears by accident. Skip it if the appeal is the shock value alone. That wears off faster than 1,077 euros justifies. The earrings will sell, xerotolerance will list something else, and Poell, who trained as a tailor before he ever touched a prosthetic tooth, will still not have shown a single collection on a runway calendar in 2026. What he will keep doing is releasing objects in silence and letting sellers like this one decide how they reach a buyer, one listing at a time, with no restock date and no explanation attached.