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Pieces made with spider silk, or rather "imitation spider silk", have become increasingly common in recent years, even if they remain a novelty. Photo composite: Instagram/Bolt Threads, AFP In 2030, your little black dress might very well be made of spider silk. The concept may sound a little futuristic, but a large number of companies are already working on fabrics that are very similar to spider silk. The only difference is these textiles are created in laboratories without putting our eight-...

Merging ethics and fashion 1 To mark its 20th anniversary, Stella McCartney continues its collaboration with Bolt Threads to merge deep science and luxury designs in the latest collection of eco-friendly garments fashioned out of Mylo mycelium leather to show the potential of the next-generation material. Inspired by its McCartney A to Z Manifesto, the luxury fashion house underlines its commitment to bringing conscience to the fashion industry -- having never used leather, feathers, fur o...

The Next Generation of Leather Alternatives From hides derived from fruit to fabrics grown in labs, there have never been more options for shoppers and retailers alike in search of more sustainable solutions. Author: Bolt Threads proprietary Mylo, a leather-like material made using mycelium. Photo: Courtesy of Bolt Threads From hides derived from fruit to fabrics grown in labs, there have never been more options for shoppers and retailers alike in search of more sustainable solutions. In 1928, ...

Earlier this year luxury Parisian house Hermès announced it would be offering customers its hand-crafted accessories, including its Birkin bags, in a mushroom-based leather. Disclaimer: the bags are neither edible nor do they smell like your favourite porcini risotto. Vegan and sustainable, Mylo was first introduced by US biotech company Bolt Threads in 2018. It is a form of mycelium, the renewable underground root of fungi, that can be lab-grown to look and feel the same as animal-derived l...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. It was 2009 when Mulberry introduced the Alexa bag, a soft, mid-sized leather satchel inspired by Alexa Chung’s “preppy hipster-meets-London scenester style.” It was an It bag for an It girl, snapped up by women around the world who aspired to her look. The £750 bag was so successful, in fact, that it was credited with carrying Mulberry through the recession. Within a few years, though, the Alexa began to dip in popularit...

Skin in the game? Reptile leather trade embroils conservation authority The reptile skin trade is a controversial issue, with some experts saying that harvesting programs help conserve species and provide livelihood benefits, while others say that the trade is fraught with issues and animal welfare concerns. From a conservation standpoint, there is evidence that the reptile skin trade is sustainable for some species and in some contexts, but other research suggests that the trade could be decim...

Leather-like materials dominate at bio-based summit Anne Prahl 15th April 2021 The two-day online Next-Generation Bio-Based Alternative Materials Innovation Summit, held from 30 March – 1 April 2021, in collaboration with the Material Innovation Initiative, brought together innovators from start-ups and biotech companies with fashion brands, suppliers and manufacturers, to explore the challenges and opportunities in the successful commercialisation of bio-based materials and technologies. Eng...

Adidas Stan Smith Mylo are its first mushroom leather sneakers Engadget 1 hr ago Daniel Cooper Adidas is today debuting its first shoe made with Mylo’s “Unleather,” a material crafted from the root structure of mushrooms. The Stan Smith Mylo is a concept sneaker that uses the renewable material for its outer upper, stripes, heel tab overlay and branding. It’s part of the company’s push to only use natural materials in their shoes, like the natural rubber midsole, to ...

Shares This week, luxury fashion house Karl Lagerfeld debuted its first collection made with vegan cactus leather. The label partnered with supermodel and sustainability advocate Amber Valletta—a friend of the late Karl Lagerfeld—to create the Lagerfeld x Amber Valletta collection which features Desserto, a vegan leather made from nopal (prickly pear cactus) by Mexican entrepreneurs Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez. During his lifetime, Lagerfeld was a fan of using fur in his fashi...

Shares Biotechnology company Ecovative Design recently raised $60 million to fund its goal of replacing animal products and eco-damaging materials with mushroom-derived alternatives in a multitude of industries. Through its biofabrication platform, the company makes a suite of products using different strains of mycelium, the fast-growing root systems of mushrooms. Under its Atlast food arm, Ecovative creates mycelium-based vegan bacon and other meat alternatives, along with scaffolding that ca...