The Business of Fashion Podcast
Understanding the Power of Mycelium and the Mushroom Movement | BoF VOICES 2021
04 Feb 2022
An oft-overlooked natural asset, mushrooms are not just infiltrating the fashion industry, but also have the potential to unlock new ways of thinking and healing. One of the planet’s oldest lifeforms was the centrepiece of some of last year’s biggest stories in material innovation in fashion. But beyond fungi’s potential for shaping the future of materials, its ability to build things and create networks can provoke our imaginations and make us question the way we organise our lives, according to Merlin Sheldrake, biologist and author of “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures.” Download our latest Case Study: ‘Fashion’s Race for New Materials’ here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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