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Iris van Herpen — bioluminescent / living algae dresses (2025)

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Cultivated algae embedded in the garment to glow/react

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https://www.wgsn.com/fashion/article/6863a3140cc3cfb3308e2043

This is a text research. While it is not directly related to our project, I think it can support the research feasibility of our project.

I came away with three ideas：

Design to Disappear → Biodegradable wool composites / plantable textiles

Design for Longevity → Durable, repairable knit structures; multi-purpose forms

Regenerate Nature → Materials that restore the land they came from (e.g., seeded fibres, local wool mapping)

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Meet the Creative Who Helped Grow Living Plants on Clothes for Loewe

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The plants were grown in a polytunnel 20 days ahead of the show, with textile designer Paula Ulargui Escalona on hand to give them all the nutrients they needed.

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Done some research on artists that have incorporated growing elements within their work, specifically using plants. Maybe the messages within their work could inform our artifact with core values?

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Return to Main Page   Presence of Plants in Contemporary Art features work by artists who practice with living plant material. Rather than

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Some more artists that have explored growing elements and their philosophical meanings

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What Sold at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025

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Galleries reported solid transactions across all sections at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025.

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‘Designing to disappear’: The story behind Templa’s first biodegradable jacket

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Outerwear brand Templa has collaborated with Allied Feather + Down and Active Apparel Group on a minimalist jacket that will completely disappear after five years if buried in the ground. Dal Chodha meets founding partner Anati Rakocz to find out more

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Concerned with the ongoing climate crisis, Queens-based artist Bea Fremderman imagines an apocalyptic world of the not-so-distant future. Her living sculptures of everyday objects and clothing appear to have been abandoned suddenly, allowing nature to take over as quickly as humans left. "I think of them as relics of the future," she told Cultured in 2019. "With my work, it's not doomsday. It's about starting over, dealing with what we have, and trying to make anew with what we know."

Fremderman plants chia seeds among pant legs, hoodies, and a lone sock that crawl over the apparel and envelop it in a thick carpet. The roving sprouts transform the items and helps question human consumption. "At the core of my work is this issue of new nature- what things are left behind, what will outlive us, how we've changed the landscape," she said. "We used to create things out of rock that would break down, and turn into sand, which comes together and becomes rock again, but now we have things that don't break down."

Find more of Fremderman's germinating sculptures on her site.

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Living Chia Germinates from Clothing Abandoned on a Wash Line by Artist Bea Fremderman

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Concerned with the ongoing climate crisis, Queens-based artist Bea Fremderman imagines an apocalyptic world of the not-so-distant future. Her living sculptures of everyday objects and clothing appear to have been abandoned suddenly, allowing nature to take over as quickly as humans left. "I think of

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Wet Felting Ultimate Guide - How to Wet Felt - AB Crafty

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Learn everything you need to know about wet felting - the supplies you need, how to wet felt, and different wet felting techniques.

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What is wet felting? — Steph Jansen Fine Felt

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Loose wool tops and other natural fibres are wet with warm soapy water and rubbed, rolled and thrown to create a strong fabric. Watch how to wet felt with videos of felting stages.

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Leigh Bowery's short but extraordinary life left a distinct, undeniable mark on the art world and beyond.

An artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer and musician, Bowery took on many different roles, all the while refusing to be limited by convention.

From his emergence in the nightlife of 1980s London through to his later daring and outrageous performances in galleries, theatres, and the street, Bowery fearlessly forged his own vibrant path. He reimagined clothing and makeup as forms of painting and sculpture, tested the limits of decorum, and celebrated the body as a shape-shifting tool with the power to challenge norms of aesthetics, sexuality and gender.

Embracing performance, club culture and fashion design, Bowery created some of the most iconic images of the 1980s and 90s that continue to resonate, with his influence seen in the work of figures such as Alexander McQueen, Jeffrey Gibson, Anohni, and Lady Gaga.

This eclectic and immersive exhibition is a rare chance to experience many of Bowery's 'Looks' alongside his collaborations with artists including Michael Clark, Charles Atlas, Nick Knight, Fergus Greer, Stephen Willats, Nicola Rainbird, Mr Pearl, and Lucian Freud. It will provide a fresh insight into the creative scenes in London, New York and beyond featuring Sue Tilley, Princess Julia, Jeffrey Hinton, RuPaul, Les Child, Andrew Logan, Cerith Wyn Evans, Lady Bunny, Trojan, Rachel Auburn, Scarlett Cannon, Lanah P, MINTY and Boy George.

Moving from the club to the stage, to the gallery and beyond, step inside Bowery's dynamic creative world that blurred the lines between art and life.
The exhibition is organised by Tate Modern in collaboration with Nicola Rainbird, Director and Owner of the Estate of Leigh Bowery

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Jacob Olmedo: The fashion designer who is radically rethinking what clothing can be.

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As summer is coming to a close and our attention is shifting to fall there have been concerns within the […]

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This deep dive explores how the principles of the circular economy can be applied to the fashion industry, beginning by covering why the fashion industry of today is not fit for purpose.

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Oh my, thank you @Scotty for these!!! I can hear and feel Dooms Night thumping through the images.

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Runway · Spring Summer 2023 men's collection · LOEWE

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Discover looks, details of runway and backstage of the collection Spring-Summer 2023 for men by LOEWE. Latest trends in bags, shoes, clothing and accesories.

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Beth Williams - Yarns, Living Textiles, Knitwear and Fashion

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Beth Williams is disabled, queer, multidisciplinary artist and Fashion Designer. As a specialist in knitwear, living textiles and soft sculpture they champion sustainability and accessibility. Explore their practice from ethical yarns to handmade clothes. Graduate from RCA and CSM.

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Fibre artist Ana Teresa Barboza creates three-dimensional fibre art that spills out of the canvas and into the gallery space. The Peruvian textile artist studied painting at the Catholic University of Peru. This traditional education focused heavily on the formal aspects of fine art; line, colour and composition. Barboza combines these technical skills with various textile techniques: embroidery, weaving, quilting, applique and crochet to name just a few.

In some of her recent works, Ana Teresa Barboza tracks the movement of plants with a time-based embroidery. She begins by projecting light onto plants in her studio, casting shadows onto a wall behind them. The artist traces these shadows each day, recording the movement and growth of the plants.

The drawings are then turned into brightly coloured embroideries that log the plant's activity for 15 days. The embroidered pieces show different coloured sections for each day of the plant's growth. Day one, for example, might be shown in red, day two in green and so forth.

Barboza has finished the work by leaving the spool of thread attached to the canvas. This hints at the continuation of the plant's stories beyond the artwork, where they continue to move and grow.

'I read a book titled "The Secret Life of Plants" where the author talks about how plants have a way of perceiving their surroundings and how they can actually move like man, just in a slower manner. It was there and then that I started relating plants to humankind'.

Botanically Dyed Fibres

In other botanically inspired works, Barboza explores the natural dying properties of the plants she depicts. 'Immersion' is a series of painted botanical wall hangings from which delicate fringes of yarn are extended. These threads are elegantly balanced or suspended on a supporting wooden rod.

In 'Landscape of the Indigo', the artist explores the Taiwanese cultural inheritance of indigo dying with the native plant Chinese Rain Bell. The wall hanging represents the process of indigo dying, whilst also being a product of that process.

Boundaries of the Embroidery Hoop

In the works mentioned above, the yarn extending from the work is deliberate and graceful whereas in her series 'Suspension' the yarn has a life of its own. Organic matter tumbles from embroidery hoops in tendrils of knotted and knitted yarn. That is to say, the yarn crosses the boundaries of the imagined space into the space of the viewer.

The idea of crossing boundaries continues into other works too. In her 2010 series people seem to cross borders into other realities, finding themselves amongst wild roaming animals and dense tropical foliage. In one such embroidery, a man dressed in a suit seems to have accidentally wandered into the jungle on the commute home from the office. A flock of birds, cheetas and reptiles swarm on him and feast on his body. The second embroidery in the series shows a woman stitching up the same man's wounds. To conclude the sequence, a third embroidery depicts the woman sewing him into a bearskin, making him one with the nature around him.

Confines of the Skin

In other works, Ana Teresa Barboza combines embroidery with photography and illustration. One such series focuses on women who seem uncomfortable in their own skin. The nude figures pull at their flesh or stitch floral motifs into their body. One woman tears at her chest revealing cross stitch lungs while another plucks brightly embroidered feathers from her legs. In these pieces, it is as if the women depicted are trapped by the confines of their own skin. In this way, these embroideries speak of boundaries and confines similarly to her previous works.

Throughout all of her fibre art, Barboza employs an imaginative combination of materials to create contrast or 'tension' between her subjects. Whether its photography combined with embroidery or pencil drawing with cross stitch, Barboza continues to push the boundaries of fibre art.

To explore more of Ana Teresa Barboza's artwork head over to her website here.

To discover other contemporary artists working in embroidery, have a read of this blog post about some popular embroidery artists on Instagram.

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Ana Teresa Barboza Contemporary Embroidery Fibre Art

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Be Inspired by the incredible mixed media embroidery art of contemporary fibre artist Ana Teresa Barboza on The Fiber Studio.

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Singaporean designer Grace Ling, a graduate of Parsons School of Design, explores the sense of tension and unease evoked by biomorphic fashion through the lens of Masahiro Mori’s 1970s concept of the “uncanny valley”, connecting it with the relationship between the human body and furniture. 🛋️

Grace Ling’s works consist of garments and accessories that function as extensions or ornaments of the body — circular sculptural frames replace traditional hangers, allowing circular jackets to be suspended and even “peeled off” to become wearable pieces.

“I like some aspects to feel more subtle, because I think this collection is about quirky elegance and intelligent femininity,” Grace explains. She expresses this idea through chainmail bags shaped like body forms and backless “hair” dresses that can literally be combed and styled.

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The official ISSEY MIYAKE ONLINE STORE | ISSEY MIYAKE UK

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IM MEN presents “FLY WITH IM MEN” at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Gallery 3

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A special exhibition, “FLY WITH IM MEN”, is being held at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Gallery 3 from Thursday, July 10 through Sunday, August 3.

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Author: Gabe Duggan
In celebration of the fourth annual New York Textile Month, members of the Textile Society of America will author Object of the Day for the month of September. A non-profit professional organization of scholars, educators, and artists in the field of textiles, TSA provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of information about textiles worldwide.
"At the moment of economic abundance, the concentrated result of social labor becomes visible and subjugates all reality to appearance, which is now its product."
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle ( The Commodity as Spectacle: 50)

20 years ago, APOC (A Piece of Cloth) was publicly launched, a collaboration between Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara. This work still impresses upon its viewer an excitement and desire for the future. APOC continues to be revolutionary as it continues to expose assumptions in textile work and body-oriented-objects. APOC's first impression is its sculpting one thread into a continual line of zero-waste, 3-dimensional objects. Fiber workers have always worked this way by hand and continue to pass this knowledge on. Translating these techniques to machine processes was one of our species' most impactful accomplishments, most notably perhaps is Jospeh-Marie Jacquard's influence on the Industrial and Digital Revolutions. Digitally designed knits have since saturated and expanded production beyond soft-goods onto objects for which knits once seemed ill-fit.

Potential for zero-waste and seamlessness has often been highlighted since the conception of APOC. While this is physically significant to earth's environment and our sustainability, APOC additionally suggests a shift in perspective that includes 'yarn' or 'thread' in the vocabulary of the user/consumer. This illuminates the process of cloth and clothing production to its end-use consumer, potentially exposing issues of mirky and invisible labour hidden in other mass-market products. This knowledge can help consumers push back on psychological obsolescence/obsolescence of desirability.

APOC could be viewed as a predecessor to selfie culture via editable garment. Wearers of APOC simultaneously tap into an individuality while becoming one with the group. The resulting garments of APOC become a sort of groupthink referent similar to using shared filters and apps today: the self becomes the variable.

APOC has often been presented on models of recent western fashion standards: tall and thin, female-presenting. I would like to see an expansion in our understanding of this important work by offering up portions of APOC to a larger population of models. This would include different abilities and disabilities (including wheelchair and assistance-using people), socio-economic status and geographic background (the Global South), different genders (including non-binary, trans, transitioning, and non-conforming folks), and full-bodied/fat-identifying people.

Understanding the seamless, doubleknit nature of APOC leaves me to believe in its adaptability and strengths as a universally-designed/designable object. For instance, how does the form change on the body as the object becomes re-, dis-oriented, adapts its identity to the body using it, rather than the reverse? As APOC is turned upside-down, placed on bias or cross-grain, limbs and head begin to enter different holes and fullness gathers along new territories of previously underrepresented bodies.

As the fashion and textile industries evolve and reassess their understanding of the bodies it operates in service to, works like APOC continue to hold strong potential for the future of universal design. If the design process evolves to be multi-directional in conversation (to include insights from user back to designer) assumptions will be exposed and adjusted to achieve and re-evaluate design goals.
Gabe Duggan is an Artist and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University whose research considers tension and balance through installation, performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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A Piece of Cloth for the Future | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Author: Gabe Duggan In celebration of the fourth annual New York Textile Month, members of the Textile Society of America will author Object of the Day for the month of September.

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designboom | architecture & design magazine

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zena holloway explores the promise of root-grown textiles

During this year's London Design Festival, at the inaugural edition of the 'Material Matters' design fair, multi-disciplinary creative Zena Holloway launched a new collection of sculptures, , and products grown entirely from grass root. Dubbed 'Rootfull', the collection included a dress with a collar piece and other sculptural forms inspired by coral, large wall hangings, and root-grown lamps with soft coral textures. A highlight at the fair, Holloway's creations explore the promising possibility of root-grown textiles and imagine a future where fashion is sustainable and compostable.

The root forms a kind of botanical skeleton, trapping carbon, and therefore becomes a tiny part of the solution to the complex problem of climate change. She uses roots like a 3D printer, allowing nature to weave its path through templates intricately carved into beeswax. Each growing cycle produces a different result, so no two pieces ever grow the same.

' The challenge is to sew, cut, tease, join, pluck, set, and reset until the root has found the optimal form. Root is an exciting and versatile material where the most honest results are achieved by working with the natural flows of the fiber. It can be grown into large hanging structures or set and molded to form vessels and responds especially well to natural dying processes,' writes Holloway.

Root Dress | all images courtesy of Zena Holloway

a versatile medium forming sculptural 3D shapes

To produce her collection, the designer cultivated wheatgrass seed in templates carved from beeswax, and over 12 days, the shoots grow to 20cm while the roots bind below to form a naturally woven structure. The roots are then allowed to expand either vertically or horizontally to follow the form of the templates they grow into. They can also be forced into small spaces, making them flat and compact, or encouraged to develop more deeply to create intricate 3D shapes.

Material Matters is a new fixture on the London design calendar. Based on the critically acclaimed podcast of the same name, the event saw its inaugural edition take place during London Design Festival 2022, from 22-25 September on the capital's Southbank. The event brought together over 40 world-leading brands, designers, makers, and organizations to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives.

Root Collar

Sea Fan

overview of the 'Rootfull' collection

Root-Grown Lamp

Zena Holloway at her studio
project info:
program: LDF 2022 / Material Matters
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zena holloway launches a collection of bio-designs grown entirely from grass root

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multi-disciplinary creative zena holloway launched a new collection of sculptures, wearables, and products grown entirely from grass root.

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Geometric Ballet” (Homage to Oskar Schlemmer)

The Geometric Ballet (P1–6) presents a new form of ballet performance through the use of materials such as felt, cardboard, and fabric.

It serves as a tribute to Oskar Schlemmer (P7–9 showcase his works).

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Merging the body into the living canvas of nature.

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Marina DeBris ’s idea of turning waste into art starts with the realization that the waste we create always comes back to haunt us.