Your Next Designer Bag Will Be Made Out of Mushrooms

From fungi to spider silk, the hunt for sources of climate-friendly clothes and leather alternatives is getting creative

Kassia St Clair
OneZero
Published in
6 min readNov 25, 2019

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AAround the turn of this millennium, when everyone else was busy worrying about the Y2K bug, researchers at Nexia, a secretive biotechnology firm based in Montreal, had other…

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Kassia St Clair
OneZero

Best-selling author of THE SECRET LIVES OF COLOR & THE GOLDEN THREAD. Bylines in The Economist, TLS, Elle Deco, World of Interiors, here. Culture|Design|History