Donna Franklin's 'living garment' is a dress that you grow, made from the Australian orange bracket fungi. It smells like red wine and feels like sludge when wet, but the cotton-like cellulose dress fits snugly as a second skin. The orange hue produced is an adaptation of the organism’s fruiting body stage.
The glowing and seemingly floating hybrid Fibre Reactive dress challenges us to consider how we as a society commodify and manipulate other living entities, and how that will manifest in the not too distant future through the physical and cultural impact of biotechnology.
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