CURATOR-LED TOUR: FASHION AND NATURE
It was designed by another firm. It is dated 2019. Its medium is a garment, silkworm cocoons, and raw silk threads. Through the way of genetic modification, the road to new fashion design has been opened. Such innovations and technologies are unprecedented, and the DNA of the animal is extracted to make a fluorescent skirt. After wearing colored glasses, you can see a brand new dress.
“To create Fantasma, design studio AnotherFarm collaborated with scientists who make transgenic glowing silk, engineered by injecting silkworm eggs with coral DNA to glow red. Japan’s Hosoo textile manufactory wove the transgenic silk into a textile, which was used by the designers to create this garment. Put on the glasses to enhance the color of the glowing silk.” https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/visits/zwdz/128365191/
