{"id":24813,"date":"2010-07-13T17:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-to-make-high-fashion-from-bacterial-slime-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:10:46","slug":"how-to-make-high-fashion-from-bacterial-slime-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/how-to-make-high-fashion-from-bacterial-slime-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"How to Make High Fashion From Bacterial Slime | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"biocouture\"<\/a>It’s not Prada, Gucci, or Dolce & Gabbana. That head-turning jacket is a bacteria cellulose original. Bio-Couture<\/a> clothing transforms a hardening ooze–yanked from tubs of yeast, bacteria, and green tea–into high fashion.<\/p>

It may sound a bit like a Project Runway challenge, but according to the Bio-Couture website, the microbe-made clothes are meant as a sustainability project. The bacteria forms a congealing fiber<\/a> (video), which designers can roll into thin sheets to make the base of each garment. As reported<\/a> by ecouterre<\/em>, where we found this story, overlaying pieces of the sheets as they dry will “felt” them together into a fashionable whole, without the need for stitching. Examples of the Bio-Couture’s latest pieces are currently on display as part of a nine-month exhibit called “TrashFashion<\/a>” at London’s Science Museum.<\/p>

Suzanne Lee and her design team at the School of Fashion & Textiles at Central Saint Martins in London hope to make even more complicated pieces using this technique–as perhaps evidenced by pictures<\/a> on the project’s website of mannequins submerged in bacterial slime.<\/p>

“Our ultimate goal is to literally grow a dress in a vat of liquid…”<\/p><\/blockquote>

Fancy color accoutrements come from dyes made of foodstuffs like <\/span>port wine, curry powder, cherries, and beetroot. And the whole garment is compostable once passé<\/span>–eliminating any evidence of past fashion faux pas.<\/p>

Related content:
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Discoblog: Robot Model Struts the Catwalk in Japan<\/a>
Discoblog: Swine Flu Fashion? Japan Introduces Swine Flu-Proof Suit<\/a><\/p>

Image: Bio-Couture <\/a><\/em><\/p>

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