Name: What will people wear in the future? | The Economist
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and lab-grown materials will have a major impact

on what people will be wearing in the future.

We are just seeing a pace of change which is frightening,

but it's also incredibly exciting for the future of fashion.

technology has always led developments in fashion.

The Industrial Revolution mechanized manufacturing,

In the 1960s, synthetic materials like polyester took off,

is opening up previously unimaginable possibilities.

Self-styled fashion scientist Dr. Amanda Parkes

is in the vanguard of the industry's latest reinvention.

primarily in disruptive fashion tech startups.

to find the next generation of renewable materials

But rather than relying on these insects,

Bolt Threads is creating silk in test tubes.

So they've taken the DNA out of a spider,

just the part of the DNA that creates silk,

and transformed that into a microorganism, into a yeast.

And you can think of it like brewing beer.

for animals and insects, and they are a more sustainable

and efficient way of producing raw materials.

in a laboratory, and have a lot more control

Rather than using animals, scientists are creating

bio-fabricated materials from pineapple leaves

Another example is a mycelium-based leather.

So the root structure of strains of mushrooms

in terms of the future development of materiality,

The convergence of fashion and technology

not just clothes but the people wearing them.

the creation of clothing that can monitor your every move.

as the next frontier of wearable technology.

so that essential data can be captured from the human body.

Within seconds, it will start transmitting your ECG,

temperature, your movement, your respiration.

Myant has brought together teams of people

that have not traditionally worked under the same roof.

We have the advanced research engineers and scientists

at nano scale technology, electrical engineers,

We wanted them to interface and to interact

with fashion designers, with pattern makers.

consumers' relationships with the clothes they wear.

But as technology increases the pace of change,

Francesca Muston is the head of retail at WGSN,

the world's leading fashion forecasting agency.

to analyze political, social, and environmental trends

in order to predict the hot new looks of tomorrow.

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