Why food could be the future of fashion

Business Daily

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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries – more than half of everything we wear is still made from plastic.

In the search for more sustainable ingredients – designers are now turning to those you would normally find on your plate.

Katie Barnfield travels to Sherwood Forest in England to meet Ashley Granter and Aurélie Fontan from Mykko – a company making leather from mycelium, the root system of mushrooms.

Fancy a food based swimsuit? We talk to Dr Kate Riley from Textile Exchange about new developments in so-called bio synthetics.

And in the race to adopt these new materials, could some brands be accused of greenwashing? Rachel Cernansky from Vogue Business takes us through the controversy.

Produced and presented by Katie Barnfield.

(Image: Mushrooms growing on a tree branch. Credit: Getty)

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0:00.0	How do we navigate in space?
0:02.2	Are humans naturally clean and tidy?
0:05.5	What exactly is this quantum computer?
0:07.6	Can smell enhance your appetite?
0:09.6	Crowd science is the podcast that takes your science questions
0:12.6	and goes in search of the answers.
0:14.7	Stick with me because there's been some really fascinating research into this.
0:18.1	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:20.4	That is incredibly clever.
0:27.8	Hello and welcome to Business Daily.
0:30.4	I'm Katie Barnfield.
0:32.2	Today we're talking fashion
0:33.7	and whether the industry could be transformed by food.
0:41.7	Okay. fashion and whether the industry could be transformed by food. We'll look at some of the unique new materials being developed from ingredients you'd normally
0:47.0	find on your plate.
0:48.7	We at one point had a chamber in our house with this mannequin, all dressed up trying to colonise
0:53.8	it with mycelium.
0:55.5	And discuss whether they're really the answer to fashion's pollution problem.
0:59.9	If it's all a brand is talking about, then it's not very promising and could be considered greenwashing.
1:07.2	This is Business Daily from the BBC World Service.
1:21.8	Hey! rushing. This is Business Daily from the BBC World Service. We're in Sherwood Forest, a very famous English forest.
1:25.4	It's a beautiful day and we've come here to look for mushrooms.
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