{"id":122647,"date":"2021-05-16T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-future-of-fashion-is-fungi"},"modified":"2021-05-16T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:22:54","slug":"the-future-of-fashion-is-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-future-of-fashion-is-fungi","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Fashion Is Fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-fashion-is-fungi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why luxury brands like Herm\u00e8s, Iris Van Herpen, and Stella McCartney are turning to mushrooms for an eco-alternative to leather.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The wondrous fungi-inspired creations in Dutch couture designer Iris Van Herpen\u2019s Spring 2021 collection are like nothing else in the fashion world. Undulating crowns of brass coils top delicate micro-pliss\u00e9 gowns with bodices formed from sinuous silk tendrils. An early adopter of 3D printing and advocate for sustainability, van Herpen has emerged as a kind of oracle within the fashion industry. She spent lockdown in Amsterdam reading biologist Merlin Sheldrake\u2019s book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds &amp; Shape Our Futures, which describes the hidden world of mycelium, the sprawling underground root-like networks of fungi (the visible part we know as mushrooms are akin to fruit on trees).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why luxury brands like Herm\u00e8s, Iris Van Herpen, and Stella McCartney are turning to mushrooms for an eco-alternative to leather. The wondrous fungi-inspired creations in Dutch couture designer Iris Van Herpen\u2019s Spring 2021 collection are like nothing else in the fashion world. Undulating crowns of brass coils top delicate micro-pliss\u00e9 gowns with bodices formed from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}