Emily Crane: Micro-Nutrient Couture

‘Micro-Nutrient Couture’ evolved from a restrictive brief based on the premise of Zero resources to create fashion futures; without the current mass production capabilities available what would a fashion practitioner do? ‘Micro-Nutrient Couture’ aims to create a fashion experience in a world exploring 'the constant new', offering a fresh alternative to the compulsive shopper obsessed with fast fashion, high street consumption and throw away prices.
My Major Project focuses on creating fashion using boundary-less techniques from the everyday 

- I cook, blend, culture and form ice bubbles as silhouettes. ‘Micro-Nutrient Couture’ is a sensory world of transient fashion where no one but the individual will ever wear the same dress again. Through this unique process and development of new materiality I have laid an innovative creative foundation for future fashion design, conscious of the restraints of our future planet and the impact from current fashion cycles, my methods look towards ‘survival’ as a key factor informing my processes, fashion is no longer a thing of simple beauty, but of nutrition also. I experiment with materials that occur naturally when cooked up from edible ingredients including gelatines, kappa carrageenan, agar-agar sea vegetable, water, natural flavour extracts, glycerine, food colouring and lusters, this is high tech kitchen couture.'-  Emily Crane describing the collection.

Emily Crane is an innovative young designer who has developed a method of producing eco-friendly, edible textiles. This is an original concept that I think is bizarre but brilliant and very inspiring. It's such a creative, fun take on producing new raw materials that I almost forget that it takes a precise, scientific process to reach the end result. After watching a video of the process it's hard to believe that these creations are in fact edible, and I also can't help but wonder how they taste.

Watch the video of the process here:
http://vimeo.com/15801130

References:
-http://emilycrane.co.uk/index.html
-https://vimeo.com/user4956100

Image Sources:
-http://www.fashionblender.com.au/blog/2013/7/31/wearable-food
-http://emilycrane.co.uk/micronutrientcouture.html