Suzanne Lee, Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and author of Fashioning The Future: tomorrow’s wardrobe, is brilliantly combining fashion and biology in search of alternative fibre/material.
BioCouture is currently on display:
Trash Fashion: designing out waste
Antenna Gallery, The Science Museum London, until June 2011
The Future That Never Was: Alter Nature
ModeMuseum Hasselt, Belgium, until June 2011
Listen in on her recent TED talk:
Mary has a PhD in Sociology from University of Edinburgh, researching responsible fashion and transnational labour rights activism in the wake of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh.
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