fashion

Interdisciplinary designer Iris van Herpen has partnered with Magnum ice cream to create the world’s first vegan, haute couture dress made from cocoa beans. Van Herpen is known for her integration of technology into fashion, and Magnum’s entry into haute couture is another step in the brand’s embrace of sustainability.

Waste cocoa bean husks from the production of chocolate were transformed into an organic, vegan biopolymer material. The design was then 3D printed before being finished by hand with upcycled organza, copper coating, and intricate, plant-inspired details.

A startup has developed dissolvable threads and a thermal disassembly system for recycling clothes

In the drive to become more sustainable, the fashion industry faces a number of serious challenges. One major issue is how to recycle clothing that is made from several different materials. Taking the clothes apart in order to recycle their constituent materials is costly and time-consuming, and often leads to a large loss of usable material. Now, startup Resortecs has an innovative solution.

The process produces soft, recyclable fabric from cardboard, agricultural waste, and textile waste

Finland’s Infinited Fiber Company is receiving strong interest in its 100 per cent recycled, recyclable fabric Infinna. The company was created to close the loop in fashion and make textile circularity an everyday aspect of an industry that currently contributes 10 per cent of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

A digital fragrance has been developed as an NFT, which could point the way towards a method for preventing counterfeiting First it was digital art, then it was digital clothing, and the most recent item to be digitised using blockchain is a fragrance, which has been turned into an NFT. For those who have not been following the latest trend, an NFT, or non-fungible token, is a unit of data on a blockchain. Like crypto tokens, NFTs can represent a unique digital item, but unlike token, NFTs usually represent a piece of creative work, such as art, audio or video files, “good in video games, even individual tweets. Now, Berlin-based Look Labs has created a digital perfume.