The Future of Fashion - Made from Mushrooms | Dan Widmaier | TED
Your closet is likely full of all kinds of materials -- leather, cotton, nylon and polyester, to name a few -- that contribute to fashion's sustainability crisis. Biomaterials investigator Dan Widmaier explains how we could look to nature for sustainable replacements for these much-used materials and introduces a leather alternative made from mushrooms that looks great and doesn't harm the environment. "We can make fashion sustainable, and we're going to do it with science," Widmaier says.
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this ted talk will go down as one of the most important in a few years. designers will eventually see the importance of such materials and see why this is the road the future of fashion will go towards. it's already happening. the future is already here. thank you for this TED TALK, the world needs to hear this
Imagine eating cultured meat wearing leather shoes. Now we need to get rid of mattress beds since sleeping bags, futons, hammocks, etc... give you more space when they "fold away". Our entire house can be made of fast folding origami tables / doors.
@@aoeu256 I'm hoping you're being satirical and if you are what point are you making? One massive change in our fashion/agricultural practices that creates a lasting effect on our environment is nothing to scoff at. Minimizing leather production through use of cows does more good than harm so whats your problem? Are you so obsessed with things remaining the same where every consumer product takes from the environment without giving back or preserving it in any meaningful way? Get a grip, do some research, actually use your brain or... Shut tf up 👍✨
Abstract: "Fashion is not about yourself look beautiful , its also about making this planet beautiful and livable for generations"
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Fashion is not just about making yourself beautiful but also about making this planet beautiful and liveable for generations
I swear I’m intrigued. I guess I’ve to change my idea about fashion now: not just to look amazing but to make nature too look amazing for us all to live in Thanks ones more 🙏
Amazing journey of fashion design ergonomics!
Thank you Dan for presenting this innovation. I wish I could help you.
thankyou for bringing & reminding us more awareness to sustainble materials. because in this era, so many people still don't care about our earth
I literally love this guy! Damn good job Dan man!!!!
Bravo! This is exactly what is urgently needed,biomimicry,in fasion and all aspects
The idea is amazing and hope it'll grow all over the world in the future
What a wonderful idea! I wanna have something like this in my home.
Awesome material and awesome attitude developing hand in hand! 👍👍 Could be a good resource for Space Colonists? Ship it as "seeds" and grow as much as you like?
Thank you for bringing more awareness to sustainable materials. Still to this day, many fashion houses still are not moving away from animal-based and petroleum-based materials due to costs in production and marketing, and this must change. LVMH even has their own production for exotic leathers. Wearing dead animals is not fashionable, it is disgusting exploitation of animals and horrible for the environment. And you are not doing anyone a favor when you purchase faux leather products which are devastating for the environment. Plant-based leather is the only way to go, and I truly hope that consumers will realize it sooner and not later.
*Fungi-based leather
I'm speechless, it's just amazing 👏
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Great idea! Absolutely love it! Please make it affordable for everone, not expensive af. Thx, the world.
Thanks for sharing Dan. Mylo is an amazing and beautiful material 😍 Nature know best 💚
There are a brilliant ideas in front of us, only artist transform them to something wonderful with science's hand 👌
Thank you to you and your wife 🌍✌️
Ultra Super Epic!!! WOWWWWW!!! Super thanks for sharing!!
Now I'm thinking to get a Ph.D. in material science!
At first, I am thinking TED is on a downtrend with fashion and sponsored products. After watching it, it really surprised me that this kind of material is real.
Why would you asume that a TED talk discussing fashion would be 'downtrending' its value? As the speaker mentioned, fashion is just as much a part of us as our desire to create art or music, its simply another avenue where function is now accesible so lets go beyond that and create, explore, make statements and design that which is an intrinsic part of our daily lives. Everything you wear, every clothing item pattern... is fashion. You may not be interested in fashion, thats totally fine but to immedietly dismiss it's very mention shows that you are really uninformed or unaware of how closely it coexists with human history and life.
Amazing!
Where do I buy stonks in this?
This is EXACTLY what I'm looking for
Its really amazing 😮😮 Just Wow 🥳
We must protect this man at all costs...........
Wow. Mylo it is 👏🏾💯👏🏾
Handbag Manufacturer from Asia here. USD 30 per square foot is 6-10x more expensive than normal Italian leather. How will they replace leather with that kind of price?
I'm working on a masters-level professional project titled "Building Sustainable Operational Model for SMEs in the Fashion Industry." I have to admit that this model is the most innovative I have seen in recent months. "Fashion is not about yourself look beautiful, its also about making this planet beautiful and livable for generations"
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Hook me up with a full mushroom wardrobe, I’m ready!!!
my hero
One question. When is it going to be cheaper to buy than leather?
Probably when true scale happens, as per the typical pattern.
Voltar pra comentar aqui quando eu adquirir meu primeiro produto feito de cogumelo.
This is not a current video -2022- is it? Was this uploaded "again" recently or.. ? Mushrooms as leather-like material has been around for a decade at least, great one tho :)
Amazing stuff ..so distracted by his shirt being slightly too small! 😝
I’ll then make sure to wear my leather jacket until they grow me a new one out of mushrooms! 🍄❤️
I like the idea of a mushroom burial suit better Also a Ted talk Can't remember the name of it
Ill wear these,because I'm a "fungi"... Paul stamets is into this the humble mushroom is a gift from nature
Actually incredible, give the poor cows a break!
That shirt 🤌
When he says, those mycelium are eating leftover sawdust ................. I am still wondering, from where so much of sawdust will come to feed these mushrooms on a factory level ??? Cut more trees, Grow more trees.....???
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30$ a square foot!!! This guy has to be joking. Normal calf leather costs around 2.25$ per square foot. That’s fleecing under the eye of sustainability!!!
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Whatever material you find... It wont be sustainable until we change the foundations of all industries: Sustainability and hyper productivity are mutually exclusive
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I think it's a very impressive work that he shows here, but my problem is the notion that "wanting more and more" is human nature. No dude, it's not human nature, it's capitalism.
It is definitely normal.
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I can see the day the cotton fields will be returned to the wild and animals won't have to be shaved for their wool (or flesh).
Random person : Oh nice shirt what material is that it looks nice can I feel it Me : uhm kakis
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Does these mycelium teleport you across the galaxy?
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To talk about fashion and do the presentation with a shirt from the stalls.. How cool!🤣
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At $30 a square foot I feel like it doesn't matter how sustainable it is if nobody can afford it
Meanwhile this shirt is A1
Thank you for your report.
Okay look, I absolutely love the idea of mushroom leather and sustainable fashion But come on with those big name brands! I have never been able to afford an Adidas shoe in my life. Ditto for Lululemon and all the other brands he's mentioned. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the bulk of society is more in the Walmart price range. How is this going to help global climate change if it's only affordable to like 10% of the population?
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good, we still need to consume less clothes though
Very good--- but Mister Nerd, sir, leather is just a byproduct of dead cows we bred for food. Impossible Burger, Beyond Meat, Boca, and others have created fake meat that tastes good, but is ironically more expensive than real beef, and some or all of these fake meats are arguably not optimum nutrition. The challenge, Mr. Nerd, is to take the next step and make slaughtering animals unnecessary, and also less expensive. It seems like it should be easy since growing cattle means creating bones, hooves, horns and other parts that are useful only to the cow. Thank you for your efforts.
yeah, talking about fashion... this shirt is a no go
2:46 Thank the lord they put "made by humans" on the tag lmao
Too expensive. It has to find a good cost balance for that to have a bigger impact to the society and environment.
When the demand is higher and there are more producers it will be affordable.
Interesting, how much water it consumes to produce a meter square of material? Personally I think the future of fashion must be SLOW. Fast fashion need to die and we need a self expression revolution to make it happen
I would have recommended mushrooms first and saved you 6 years I guess. Too bad I'm trapped in poverty because TN is a Rube Goldberg eugenics machine
Describing TN this way makes more sense than it should :(
Am I the only person who felt like either him or I is saying adidas wrong!
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I want this leather for my partner. He wants to make his own wallet.
I hate to burst your bubble, but both silk and leather ARE natural materials.
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I make hats out of hoof fungus
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how about spider web?
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EPIC! Glad I saw this at the begging. Thanks to @mycoworks
Isn't leather a byproduct tho? If we're using livestock for their meat we may as well use the leather.
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Cows have hundreds if not thousands of byproduct uses, leather being 1 of them. We don't raise cattle only for the leather. The mushroom work is great, and we should continue to explore ways to produce the goods we need, but comparing mushrooms to cows is far worse than apples to oranges comparisons.
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One thing's for sure, they'll never replace the animals. There's nothing worth eating in them. While they're nice to eat, you'll never be able to live on them while you can live on meat.
I've been living for a decent while now and I still haven't eaten meat...
This guy just throwing out key phrases/terms. This sounds interesting but renewable energies require non-renewable materials used to make very specific bits of equipment that generally can't be repaired and require massive energy input to make (wind farms and the electronics in it, once these break, they break). Renewable materials, these materials are made from something and converting a material requires energy. The benefit to natural materials it's using natural processes but wanting to scale this into large scale to replace leather....isn't going to be sustainable. Cows provide food as well as clothing. The resources needed to create factories and put energy into making these mushroom farms won't be the saving grace this man thinks, and is leading others to think it is. Save yourself 6 years. Don't eat bugs.
Abstract: "Fashion is not about yourself look beautiful , its also about making this planet beautiful and livable for generations"