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For our group presentation, we watched a documentary featuring the sustainable future of fashion through different organizations, companies and people. Specifically for my analysis, I focused on BioCouture and its founder: Suzanne Lee. Both BioCouture and Lee have been leading the way in a completely new form of sustainable fashion, actually growing and biologically creating garments from scratch. Using the method of growing Kombucha, Lee brews fabrics from only a simple ingredients, such as the bacteria culture, green tea and sugar. Through this process of growing and drying the bacteria after growth, creates a unique and sustainable fabric that can be easily created and disposed of.
I was really shocked by this completely new method of sustainability, as I have never heard of anyone “growing” their own clothing. Having some experience growing my own Kombucha in science class, I would have never imagined the possible applicability of it to the realm of fashion and clothing. Innovators such as Lee show the unique and diverse avenues of which designers can begin to create their clothing. Instead of the “thinking out of the box” during the design phase, we can also apply the same thinking in different phases, just like Lee has with the growing of her own fabric.