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The Future of Textiles

The New Sea Food

Fashion, Waste, and Microplastics

by Makalé Cullen

“The future of fashion is inside us. We will, we are, wearing nanofibers internally, purchased not from a rack, but at the grocer’s, the fishmonger’s, the restaurant.” 

The future of fashion is inside us. We will—we are—wearing nanofibers internally, purchased not from a rack, but at the grocer’s, the fishmonger’s, the restaurant. Our identities, which we have adorned with plant and animal fibers for more than three hundred thousand years, will no longer only drape over us, they will become us—worn inside. Meet Fashion Eater.

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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