Suzanne Lee

Suzanne Lee is Senior Research Fellow at St Martins School of Art & Design. Her recent AHRC funded project Bio Couture looks at ecological and sustainability issues surrounding fashion.    By harnessing nature she proposes a radical future for textiles.   Her focus is to observe the use of bacterial-cellulose, grown in a laboratory, to produce clothing...literally, to "grow a dress in a vat of liquid".  

Suzanne's groundbreaking book ‘Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow's Wardobe' explores how emergent technologies propose radical new innovations for the fashion industry and how our wardrobe might be fashioned in the future. Suzanne plans to focus her future work on the sustainability of textiles and fashion, her recent publication investigates ‘BioCouture - growing clothing using bacterial cellulose'. Since working as a consultant with London-based label Hamish Morrow, she has been involved in bringing cutting edge fashion innovation to the market place. In Spring/Summer 2006 she worked with NanoTex® to bring performance finishes to silk for a range of luxury sportswear.