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Fashion's green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes Updated: Updated: The sustainability movement's strength comes from many actors pulling in the same direction. Share Article AAA This handout photo released by the Charlotte McCurdy Research on May 18, 2021 shows US designer Charlotte McCurdy presenting a raincoat made of seaweed/algae in New York.   | Photo Credit: AFP The sustainability movement's strength comes from many actors pulling in the same direction. From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide...

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 metres of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres into the ocean, and accounts for ...

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...

Fashion's 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 industry consumes 93 billion cubic metres of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres...

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