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Share Pakistani labourers pick cotton in a field in Bahawalpur district in Pakistan’s central Punjab province In November 2015. AFP Seaweed and mushrooms transform fashion Mon, 24 May 2021 From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic met...

Des Moines Register The state is giving food processing giant Archer-Daniels-Midland a $1 million tax credit for an improbable-sounding project: to turn corn into synthetic spider silk. The company plans to use its wet mills in Clinton to extract a sugar that can form a basic building block of the product, long seen among materials scientists as a moonshot. Researchers from several companies have tried to emulate spider silk, which is strong, light and stretchy. Manufacturers believe the produ...

PARIS, May 20 — From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry...

Fashions green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes Issued on: US designer Charlotte McCurdy has used seaweed to make a raincoast. - Charlotte McCurdy/AFP 4 min Paris (AFP) From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the indus...

Some experts are sceptical that such initiatives can lead to large-scale transformation.

From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic meters of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibers into the ocean, and accounts for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The grow...

Type keyword(s) to search Every product on this page was chosen by a Harpers BAZAAR editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The Future of Fashion Is Fungi Why luxury brands like Hermès, Iris Van Herpen, and Stella McCartney are turning to mushrooms for an eco-alternative to leather. GETTY IMAGES & COURTESY IRIS VAN HERPEN; BOLT THREADS; MADE WITH REISHITM BY MYCOWORKS. The wondrous fungi-inspired creations in Dutch couture designer Iris Van Herpens Spring 2021...

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You probably know that putting lots of fruits and vegetables in your body is good for you, but what you might not know is that putting more fruit and veg on your body in the form of leather-alternative fabrics could be good for the planet. Boston-based technology research firm Lux Research forecasts annual sales of low-complexity leather alternatives, which include fruit- and vegetable-derived materials as well as recycled-material leathers, are likely to hit $1 billion by 2025 driven by a c...

Fashion goes bananas — and apples and grapes and oranges too Adam Tschorn © Provided by The LA Times Fruit-bowl fashion looks more stylish than ever thanks to textiles made from apples, bananas, mushrooms and more. (Ross May / Los Angeles Times) You probably know that putting lots of fruits and vegetables in your body is good for you, but what you might not know is that putting more fruit and veg on your body in the form of leather-alternative fabrics could be good for th...