An oil-free dress made by the famous designer Phillip Lim and the researcher specialized in sustainable fashion Charlotte McCurdy.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousAn oil-free dress created by the famous designer Phillip Lim in collaboration with the researcher specialized in sustainable fashion Charlotte McCurdy.
When we think of sequins we immediately associate them with plastic waste, but that may now change. The designers Phillip Lim and Charlotte McCurdy demonstrated the compatibility between elegance and sustainability by creating a luxurious dress covered with algae sequins without using any type of petroleum-derived material.
The dress was designed during the One X One program, an initiative of the Slow Factory Foundation that unites scientists and designers to invent "a new way of creating" that starts from a perspective that is attentive to circular economy models, fair production and to regenerative technologies.
The designer duo drew on McCurdy's process which extracts carbon from the atmosphere and combines organic matter with heat. A method that he had previously used to create a waterproof raincoat made with seaweed. The bioplastic that forms is poured into molds and cut into the shape of sequins.
As the basis for the bio-sequins derived from algae, Lim and McCurdy used for the dress a material made with a mesh base created by PYRATEX, a company based in Madrid specializing in the research of new materials, made of algae fiber and bamboo called SeaCell which is both an antiperspirant and a thermoregulator. The result is an elegant oil-free dress.
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Fortunately, in the world of fashion there are more and more companies, designers and consumers who are attentive to the environment. Using creativity and with a vision towards a green future, the possibilities of reinventing new materials for clothing have an inexhaustible source, as in this case with algae, in nature.
Fonte: DeZeen
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