Monday 12 July 2010

U.K. Designer “Grows” an Entire Wardrobe From Bacteria

Suzanne Lee can conjure clothing out of thin air. No, wait, that’s not entirely accurate. She’ll need at least a couple of bathtubs, some yeast, a pinch of bacteria, and several cups of sweetened green tea. Lee, who is a senior research fellow at the School of Fashion & Textiles at Central Saint Martins in London, is the brains (and brawn) behind BioCouture, an experiment in growing garments from the same microbes that ferment the tasty caffeinated beverage...
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1 comment:

  1. Pretty cool... but it looks a li'l too Silence of the Lambs to me. (It puts the lotion on it's skin...). Hey! That reminds me... go to youtube and search for Lotion. Great song by the Greens Keepers.

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