Suzanne Lee – Designing With Biology

Suzanne Lee - Designing With Biology
World Hope Forum England

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Suzanne is a designer turned pioneer of biotechnology for fashion. She started growing materials from microbes for the fashion industry in 2002 coining the term ‘Biocouture™’. Today Suzanne is the founder of Biofabricate, a global network serving the needs of biomaterial innovators, consumer brands and investors through events, advisory, and learning resources. Biofabricate is ‘Where Design meets Biology’. Suzanne is the author of ‘Fashioning the Future: tomorrow’s Wardrobe’. She is a special advisor to Parley For The Oceans, The Mills Fabrica and Fashion for Good on biomaterials, a TED Senior Fellow, and a Launch Material Innovator - an initiative of NASA, Nike, USAID and the US State Department. Formerly Suzanne was the Chief Creative Officer of Modern Meadow, a biomaterials startup in New York (2014-2019).