Royal College of Arts releases "Gilded Youth Initiative" suggestive jewelry collection

I rarely log onto FaceBook. But when I did so today, I found that a friend posted this image tagged with "WTF?"

Sure, jewelers do examine larger gemstones by laying them between the fingers to see how well it sparkles (helps determine the setting used) but to cut off the tips of the fingers (which, you know, makes fingers just that more obvious) and make it look suggestive...

HuffPo puts it flat-out called it a pussy pendant. Which doesn't help the project's name (The Gilded Youth Initiative; sponsoring budding jewelers) because something that looks like genitalia with "Gilded Youth" as part of it's name/title just seems crass.

If one ventures to the artist's instagram, one can see the image of the mold made of the fingers for the finished piece.
Even from the mold one can see that there's separation of the fingers at the knuckles. So, I dunno... was it intentional? And if so, why? Because it doesn't look all that good for the Royal College of Art to show suggestive jewelry branded with "Youth."