Fashion Design Student Using Alexander McQueen's Skin To Make Jacket
Student Tina Gorjanc is using the late fashion icon's DNA in order to grow 'skin', which she intends to use to manufacture a limited number of jackets and bags.
In a bizarre piece of tech and fashion news, it has been reported that a fashion design student in London is planning to design a collection of leather jackets and bags made from the late icon Alexander McQueen’s skin.
Fashion publication Quartz claims that student Tina Gorjanc, who is in the process of completing a course in material futures at London’s Central Saint Martin’s College (McQueen’s own alma mater), is using his DNA to grow human skin in a lab project, with a view to manufacturing it into materials from which to make a range of bags and jackets.
Alexander McQueen's DNA is being used by a fashion student to grow 'skin' with which to manufacture a jacket
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