Iris van Herpen dress covered in glowing algae is "cultivated rather than constructed"
Dumitru Socican
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has worked with biodesigner Chris Bellamy to create a "first-of-its-kind living look", a dress made from 125 million bioluminescent algae that emit light as it moves. The dress, which opened Van Herpen's Sympoiesis haute couture show at Paris Fashion Week, was made from Pyrocystis lunula, a bioluminescent algae cultivated by Bellamy. The algae were grown in seawater baths with a nutrient gel over several months, before being moulded into a protected membrane and
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