Suzanne Lee

‘BioCouture': is a visionary research project to grow clothing. It unites fashion and textile design with bio and nanotechnologies for future sustainable fashion. Led by fashion designer Suzanne Lee, Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, and scientist Dr. David Hepworth, BioCouture entails the growing of clothing from laboratory cultured bacterial-cellulose. The sheet material is grown in a green tea solution and can be dried down to form a seamless shape or cut and sewn conventionally for clothing;