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When men’s artistic director Pharrell Williams showed his resort collection for Louis Vuitton this past December in Hong Kong, one product on the runway embraced a high-tech update to the house’s usual notions of luxury savoir-faire.
The LV Cobra — futurist-looking slip-on clogs that the rapper Future and artist Kaws raved about on Instagram — wasn’t stitched together
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Ten years ago, Suzanne Lee gathered a nerdy group of synthetic biologists, designers and artists in a sterile conference room in Microsoft’s New York headquarters to discuss an audacious shared vision: a fashion industry transformed by “biofabricated” materials like lab-grown leathers and new mushroom-based fabrics.
They showed each other janky samples cultivated in Petri dishes and outlined wildly optimistic
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Parley, the environmental organisation that works with brands like Adidas and Dior to turn plastic pollution into product components, is launching an investment arm to support new materials innovation.
The company is aiming to provide long-term funding to next-generation start-ups that are taking on the environmental and social problems caused by plastic.
”We don’t see good investors out there,”
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Naveen Jain had a crazy idea: Could he prevent and reverse chronic diseases?
Why was this crazy? To start, Jain is not a doctor. He’s an accomplished technologist whose first company, InfoSpace, became one of North America’s largest tech companies in the 1990s, and who then went on to found or spearhead many others, including a space company called