The Agar R&D team tests a lot of materials when it comes to our shirts.

Sadly, we may have over paid them because they seemed to have missed the bacteria cellulose concoction that UK designer Suzanne Lee uses to make her clothes. Our team stopped at cotton (it’s fine cotton though). Anyway, Suzanne’s bacteria cellulose starts out as garden variety bacteria, yeast and some greens mixed to create ultra thin sheets. The sheets, when wet, can be shaped into clothing by squeezing them together and when it dries you’ve got clothes. According to Ecoutree, the material feels like papyrus (for the uniformed, that’s course paper) but it’s quite the achievement when you consider she’s basically growing her clothes.

Lee’s collection is currently one exhibit at London’s Science Museum as part of the Trash Fashion: Designing Out Waste exhibit. You can learn more about Lee and her BioCouture here while our R&D is going back to drawing board.

BioCouture via Ecouterre
images copyright of BioCouture (also pulled from Ecouterre)