
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries – more than half of everything we wear is still made from plastic.
In the search for more sustainable ingredients – designers are now turning to those you would normally find on your plate.
Katie Barnfield travels to Sherwood Forest in England to meet Ashley Granter and Aurélie Fontan from Mykko – a company making leather from mycelium, the root system of mushrooms.
Fancy a food based swimsuit? We talk to Dr Kate Riley from Textile Exchange about new developments in so-called bio synthetics.
And in the race to adopt these new materials, could some brands be accused of greenwashing? Rachel Cernansky from Vogue Business takes us through the controversy.
Produced and presented by Katie Barnfield.
(Image: Mushrooms growing on a tree branch. Credit: Getty)
By BBC World Service4.4
488488 ratings
Fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries – more than half of everything we wear is still made from plastic.
In the search for more sustainable ingredients – designers are now turning to those you would normally find on your plate.
Katie Barnfield travels to Sherwood Forest in England to meet Ashley Granter and Aurélie Fontan from Mykko – a company making leather from mycelium, the root system of mushrooms.
Fancy a food based swimsuit? We talk to Dr Kate Riley from Textile Exchange about new developments in so-called bio synthetics.
And in the race to adopt these new materials, could some brands be accused of greenwashing? Rachel Cernansky from Vogue Business takes us through the controversy.
Produced and presented by Katie Barnfield.
(Image: Mushrooms growing on a tree branch. Credit: Getty)

7,721 Listeners

4,182 Listeners

1,038 Listeners

284 Listeners

433 Listeners

5,545 Listeners

1,815 Listeners

364 Listeners

954 Listeners

739 Listeners

53 Listeners

247 Listeners

372 Listeners

232 Listeners

661 Listeners

224 Listeners

2,531 Listeners

328 Listeners

3,166 Listeners

64 Listeners

845 Listeners

1,001 Listeners

500 Listeners

112 Listeners

612 Listeners

279 Listeners

279 Listeners

66 Listeners

82 Listeners

1 Listeners