Emily Crane's Bio-Lace

Emily Crane is a fashion designer who experiments with growing and freezing bubbles to create delicate bio-lace structures used for material for clothing and accessories. The process capturing bubbles in organic fluids like gelatine and glycerine along with food colouring and freezes them into beautiful shapes and structures. I wouldn't have thought that the bio-lace would be very durable as the structures would be so delicate, however the outcomes are very feminine and beautiful

Trash Fashion - BIO-COUTURE

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.