Slow Fashion, Fast Biology: What Will it Take For Biology to Compete in the Fashion Industry?

<div class="ag87-crtemvc-hsbk"><div class="css-vsf5of"><p class="carina-rte-public-DraftStyleDefault-block"><span style="color: rgb(29,28,29);">The fast-fashion industry is infamous for its unsustainable, exploitative, and environmentally damaging practices. But if bioengineered materials are to become the dominant products in the textile and fashion space, synthetic biology will need to speed up. How can we speed bio-based textile innovation and paths to market while also communicating the value of slowing down? Where are fashion supply chains ripe for disruption? What will it take for synthetic biology materials to be commonplace for consumers?</span></p></div></div>