Designer Suzanne Lee uses natural resources to literally grow a fabric for use in fashion design. She mixes bacteria and yeast with a sugary tea solution which produces fibres that stick together to form a thick rubbery type of substance. It is then dried out and pattern cut, further detail is added by laser cutting and printing using other natural materials such as fruit and turmeric.
I think being able to literally grow your own clothes is about as innovative as it gets with textiles. However, there are still a few problems with BioCouture causing it to not be very wearable, for exapmle getting it wet would make it go slimey. I'm also not sure about the overall appearance of the fabric.
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