The North Face Moon Parka is made with silk proteins produced by engineered bacteria. It marks a shift at the intersection of fashion and biology, where sustainability and high-performance are no ...
From Zoë Kravitz to Alexa Chung—it girls everywhere are wearing silk coats with fur trim during the confusing winter-to-spring transitional season.
It has been one of the main challenges in manufacturing for years: how to create spider silk on a cost-effective, mass scale. Heralded as one of the most durable and strongest materials in the world, ...