Canadian-Iranian designer Roya Aghighi wants you to imagine your shirt is alive and hopes that people can develop a more intimate relationship with fashion – treating clothes like living things that need our help to survive! 👗🌍
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Named Biogarmentry (@biogarmentry), the clothes are a proof of concept for a textile made with living, photosynthetic cells. Aghighi's biofabricated textiles are living organisms that respirate by turning carbon dioxide into oxygen.
To make the fabric for Biogarmentry, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a type of single-cell green algae, are spun together with nano polymers. The result, which feels like linen, is "the first non-woven living and photosynthetic textile" ever created.
Wearers will need to take care of their garment as they would a plant in order to keep it alive, rather than engaging in the environmentally destructive practice of making synthetic clothes and discarding them after a few uses.
Biogarmentry is activated by being exposed to sunlight. Rather than wash their clothes, the owner would just need to spray them with water once a week.
After the user is finished with the garment, it can be disposed of via composting. Currently the textile is expected to live for around a month, but this period can be extended if it is cared for properly.
To know more visit, royaaghighi.com
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