Suzanne Lee
Suzanne Lee is a fashion designer, author and one of the main people behind a research project named BioCouture. BioCouture is a project outcome of her book Fashioning The Future, Tomorrow’s Wardrobe (Thames & Hudson). It examines the work of those scientific researchers and fashion designers, such as Walter Van Beirendonck, Issey Miyake, and Hussein Chalayan, who are transformings researchers work into tomorrow’s clothing. The project BioCouture aims to grow to clothe from the vat of liquid; from a systematic era named biotechnology. The idea is to develop clothes by copying nature through biomimicry (see post and eco fashion dictionary about biomimicry; mimicking biology and harnessing animal bioactive materials using another technology “tissue engineering.” Suzanne Lee works as a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, working with scientists looking into possibilities of growing future consumer through synthetic biology. BioCouture
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