Leather doesn't have to come from animals

We're making new textiles from yeast.

Functional fungi. Illustration by Rafael Alvarez

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From Suzanne Lee, Chief Creative Officer of Modern Meadow

Leather is difficult to mimic without animals, which use up lots of land and water. Instead, we engineer yeast cells that produce collagen proteins as they ferment. We purify what comes out and turn it into a material that tries to imitate a hide....CLICK HERE