How would you feel wearing a leather coat made of your DNA? Or hold a leather bag that no one else can claim to be his own?
In a not too distant future, all of this may become a reality. This idea was presented by a fashion designer at the conference Biofabricate held at New York and which had as its subject the new developments in organic materials.
Fashion designer Tina Gorjanc, responsible for the project Pure Human, imagines a near future where biotechnology infiltrates the luxury goods market, and warns of legislative loopholes protecting human genetics information.
Gorjanc presented her first project this year in this area, and said he could create leather products with synthetic human skin that will "grow" from the DNA of the famous fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Although Gorjanc has not yet taken that step since her creations are made from pigskin specially dyed and treated to look human, she has already filed for a patent in United Kingdom which concerns the whole process production.
