Here's the ultimate fashion statement for the wine geek - clothing made from wine. Yes it's true.
"Australian researchers have combined art and science to make dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to 'grow' slimy dresses from wine and beer.
"We're looking at [the dresses] to provoke some discussion about future fashions, about the possibility of other material we can use instead of our normal cottons and silks," says Gary Cass, who works on the Micro'be' project at the University of Western Australia.
Cass is a laboratory technician at the university who, among other things, writes science fiction.
He says he was inspired to grow the dresses when he was working in a vineyard many years ago."
Full Story: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stor ... 872191.htm
