Bioplastic fashion

When I saw her kombucha SCOBY leather dress walk the runway, I internally complimented the style, the ethereal drape, and how stunning the..

The same process used to ferment green tea can produce beautiful -- if not exactly ready-to-wear -- garments.

A vegan leather option that can grow 36 inches daily 🌱 . . . #fashion #veganfashion #veganleather #crueltyfree #kelp #sustainable #sustainablefashion #vegan #animalskinalternative #wtvox

Fermenting bacteria spinning solid skins, plant stalks interlocking to form home-grown lace, human bone grown bangles: just a small selection of the ideas that are born when textile designers meet biologists, material scientists and physicists...

Researcher, practitioner and educator on digital fabrication, textiles, wearable technologies and biofabrication. Specialized in hardware development, integration design, rapid prototyping and design to production. Co-founder of fabtextiles.org, a research laboratory on textiles, soft architectures and innovative materials at IAAC Fab Lab Barcelona. Co-founder of Fabricademy, Textile and Technology Academy, a radical educational platform on the…

Project made together with a biotechnologist, Lusi Ajonjoli for a fashion tech brand, ElektroCouture. The project focuses on the versatility of the “Kombucha leather” (a material similar to real leather, biodegradable, easy to grow even at home), in relat…

Designers should stop using recycled plastic and instead use bioplastics made from raw materials such as algae if they want to reduce pollution, according to Istanbul Design Biennial curator Jan Boelen.

After being confined to experiments for years, biomaterials catapulted into the mainstream in 2021, according to architects, designers and manufacturers.

"Girls and flowers". Photographed by Marie Hochhaus for Contributor Magazine