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BREWING LEATHER IN A LAB

Modern Meadow’s chief creative officer, Suzanne Lee, wears the cotton and Zoa shirt she designed for MoMA’s Is Fashion Modern? exhibit.

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Suzanne lee was a fashion designer in the early ’90s when she discovered in a lab that biofabrication processes could produce leatherlike materials via yeast fermentation. She spent

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