BUY, BE BOUGHT

  • Lea Hiralal

-COLLECTION CREATION IN PROGRESS- ​ ​ SCOBY STANDS FOR SYMBIOSIS COLONY OF BACTERIA AND YEAST. A MATERIAL THAT CAN BE GROWN IN TEA AND SUGAR, THAT RESEMBLES LEATHER AND LATEX. THIS MATERIAL LED PROJECT ALLOWED ME TO EXPERIMENT WITH BIODEGRADABLE AND REUSABLE MATERIALS, FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME. I CREATED A CONSCIOUS COLLECTION OF JEWELLERY FROM THIS MATERIAL, LOOKING AT ITS TRANSPARENCY AND FLEXIBILITY. INSPIRED BY OUR CONSUMERIST WORLD, THE IMAGERY OF FAST FASHION IS MY MAIN INSPIRATION, THROUGH THIS COLLECTION.