Bio fashion

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…

Last month, when Loewe presented its spring 2023 menswear collection in Paris, Ulargui’s work took center stage: coats adorned with lush greenery in asymmetrical patterns, sneakers decorated with blossoming grass, and pants that looked as if weeds had grown within them.

At the 2022 London Design Festival, Zena Holloway presented an intriguing collection of sculptures, products, and wearables grown completely from grass root! Ca

Interaction Design, Fashion

bacterial cellulose fermentation constructs finished works of fashion grown in a bath of sugary green tea.

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

Kombucha is an acquired taste. As you may know, it’s really not everybody’s cup of tea. But its enjoying quite a moment. We see it in a whole range of drinks these days, in supermarkets and the healthier sorts of cafes. It even has its own extremely popular hashtag on Instagram, highlighting this fizzy, whizzy...

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...

What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture…

A 17-year-old student has created a cruelty-free vegan leather jacket made from kombucha; the material is biodegradeable and sustainable.

NOT x LIENX shapes a three-piece capsule collection made of agar bioplastic discovering simple food ingredients' properties in fabric making.

Algae Blooms produce toxins dangerous to us and the environment, and the numbers are increasing each year. Fortunately, companies like AlgiKnit are taking this environmental issue and transforming it into the fabric.

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

Biomimicry in fashion: To minimize waste, Stefanie Nieuwenhuys layered discarded pieces of wood onto fabric like reptilian scales.