BioCouture
July 18, 2010
Suzanne Lee creates clothing out of yeast, a pinch of bacteria, and several cups of sweetened green tea. She is a senior research fellow at the School of Fashion & Textiles at Central Saint Martins in London, and the brains behind BioCouture, an experiment in growing garments from the same microbes that ferment the tasty caffeinated beverage.
The website says:
Imagine if we could grow clothing…
BioCouture aims to address ecological and sustainability issues around fashion.
The BioCouture research project is harnessing nature to propose a radical future fashion vision.
We are investigating the use of bacterial-cellulose, grown in a laboratory, to produce clothing.
Our ultimate goal is to literally grow a dress in a vat of liquid…
http://www.biocouture.co.uk/
http://biocouture.posterous.com/
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