Tag: bioluminescent microalgae

At the 2025 Paris Haute Couture Week, avant-garde designer Iris van Herpen debuted her latest collection, Sympoiesis, and with it, a creation that could very well belong to another realm: a “living” dress inhabited by 125 million bioluminescent microalgae. Yes, it glows. Yes, it responds to movement. Yes, it is alive.