Suzanne Lee


Suzanne lee

Suzanne Lee (born 1970)[1][2] is a Brooklyn, New York based fashion designer working on fashion and future technologies.

She is a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the Director of The BioCouture Research Project, and Chief Creative Officer at Modern Meadow.

Her recent Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project BioCouture looks at ecological and sustainability issues surrounding fashion. She is working with scientists to engineer optimized organisms for growing future consumer products.

In 2007 she published Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow's Wardrobe. The book examines the work of the scientific researchers and fashion designers, such as Issey Miyake, Hussein Chalayan, and Walter Van Beirendonck, who are transforming today's science fiction into tomorrow's reality.

  1. ^ Venkataramanan, Madhumita (2 January 2014). "Biocouture from the lab to the high street". Wired.co.uk. Lee, 43
  2. ^ Grose, Jessica (4 March 2014). "Making Clothes from Microbes". mental floss. Lee, 44