GROWING A FROCK FROM A VAT OF GREEN TEA
To grow a dress?
Suzanna
Lee presents a new radical vision of future fashion harnessing nature. In her
research project ‘Biocouture’, she
collaborates with scientists at Central Saint Martin’s College in London
She thinks about the future: rather than
exploiting plants or petrochemicals to provide raw materials for fabric,
Suzanna Lee investigates the use of microbes to grow a textile biomaterial.
Proposing an eco-friendly sustainable alternative for the production,
consumption and the disposal of fashion textile, Lee is a pioneer in the world
of fashion.
This TED video shows that literally a dress can
grow from a vat of sugary green tea. The ingredients for the biomaterial are
green tea, sugar, yeast, a mixed culture of bacterial cellulose and other
microorganisms. The whole process is explained in detail in the video!
However this “vegetable leather”, which can be
composted and needs less dye than other fibres, isn’t rainproof. So Suzanna and
the scientists have still got a big challenge to “conquer”!
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