Micro-Nutrient Couture by London-based designer Emily Crane is a form of “tailored gastronomy” that pushes the boundaries of fashion, food, science and materiality.
Through a range of experiments that includes cooking, blending, forming and culturing Crane creates food silhouettes that can be worn as clothing. While the clothing is edible, it looks nothing like "traditional" food but rather more like high-end fashion.
The materials used for creating this couture include gelatine, kappa carrageenan, agar-agar sea vegetables, water, natural flavour extracts, glycerine, food colouring and lusters. Sounds complicated, but the results are rather impressive.
Based on the premise to create fashion futures using zero resources, Crane conceptualised this as a fashion experience that is constantly new, as fashion so often demands, using techniques from the every day.
