Get to know the sustainable textiles

Day 10...  halfway through!  Today's assignment is a great lesson in sustainable fibers. 
Here's a few others I found interesting in my studies...

Shirt made from fermented green tea, sugar and microbes

Dress that reacts to your body's PH balance.

dress of nanoparticles of titanium dioxide that when come into contact with UV light it breaks down pollutants

"field of jeans" by Helen Story/Ecover

Biological Textiles
* Suzanne Lee - Biocouture
Fibers made from fermented green tea, sugar and microbes.  Sounds like how I make my kombucha!













Responsive Textiles
* Rainbow Winters
Water and sun reactive dress, senses PH balance.












Catalytic Clothing
* artist/designer Helen Story & chemist Tony Ryan created dress of catalytic nanoparticles of
titanium dioxide that when come into contact with UV light they break down pollutants.











* Helen Story also worked with Ecover to create a fabric softener with catalytic particles that clean the air in an art instillation called Field of Jeans.

Sources:  Fashion Institute of Technology / Sass Brown, Eco Fashion Talk