Grow Your Own . . . Clothes

Imagine if we could grow clothing . . .

That is exactly what Suzanne Lee (of Central Saint Martins College, London) working in partnership with Dr David Hepworth of CelluComp have been developing using bacteria and green tea.

BioCouture aims to address ecological and sustainability issues around fashion.
The BioCouture research project is harnessing nature to propose a radical future fashion vision.
We are investigating the use of bacterial-cellulose, grown in a laboratory, to produce clothing.
Our ultimate goal is to literally grow a dress in a vat of liquid...

Fashion Futures

Fashion Futures is a call for a sustainable fashion industry. It’s designed to help organisations in all sectors take action which will safeguard their future, protect our environment and improve the lives of their customers, workers and suppliers around the world.

“For the fashion industry to be sustainable economically, it must be sustainable socially and environmentally too. These provocative scenarios challenge all of us to look beyond the short term and use our collective power to work to create the kind of positive world we’d like to see in 2025.” - John Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co.

Please open this link Levi Strauss & Co to see a great presentation on Fashion Futures, a vision of the fashion world in 2025.

Image by Stefan Sagmeister.

MADE-BY

MADE-BY is an umbrella label used by fashion brands to indicate their clothes are okay: ie. they are produced in a sustainable manner. The brands affiliated to MADE-BY prefer using organic cotton and working together with sewing factories that have a social code of conduct. MADE-BY is the first fashion initiative that focuses on environmental and working conditions throughout the entire production chain.

There are interesting tools on this site including track and trace , where you can see the journey that your clothes made, before they got to you.