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The Future of Fashion is Designed in Collaboration with Nature

Have you heard of the living coffin by Bob Hendrikx and Loop Biotech yet? As to how this relates to fashion design, I’ll get to that later. Not all garments are created equal. The choices a designer makes when it comes to the fabric, among other things, determines the product’s lifecycle. Surely, the design intention is never for the piece to...

Fashion

Central Saint Martins adds MA Biodesign course

Central Saint Martins, UAL is launching the first Masters in Biodesign starting in September, which will explore bio-informed design strategies as a driver for sustainable innovation. The ethos of the two-year course is to collaborate with living systems to revisit the approach to design and manufacturing, be it in the context of architecture,...

Fashion

Puma is working on a shoe featuring living microbes

Imagine a running shoe that maps the areas of the foot which produce heat and sweat and then creates a unique ventilation pattern, specifically catered to the wearer’s needs. That’s the promise of Puma’s latest innovation, BioEvolution, presented last week at Milan Design Week, in yet another example of how fashion is infiltrating the event. The...