Month: July 2021

Fashion (r)Evolution

The recent pandemic has changed the fashion landscape that now seems to have come to the end of an era. All aspects of the system are impacted: creative structural, ethical … But the pandemic only accelerated a trend already in place, fashion was already at the end of a cycle that began in the late…
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READY FOR LIFT OFF

Has there ever been a moment in the universe so full of dramatic upheaval, uncertainty and contemplation? The answer is an emphatic no, yet what comes with all of this swirling and churned-up change is also a time of wide-open opportunities.  The post-Covid reality is both concerning and confounding; the vaxxed and the vax-less, the masked…
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Vegan spider silk: a new material for plastic replacement

From time immemorial, man has drawn inspiration from nature to innovate. By looking at the exceptional strength of spider webs and trying to replicate it with plant proteins, researchers at Cambridge University have developed a new, fully home-compostable plant-based polymer film that is as strong as fossil fuel-based plastics. Bags, bottles, trays, tubes, cans, flasks,…
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