Q At my local thrift store there is a jacket that looked particularly good and fit me perfectly, but then I saw that it was made of silk (in a very light beige color). You have written about silk ...

Move over, mycelium. The new year is kicking off with a new next-gen material in mind: the queen of fibers. Silk is one of the oldest fibers, first emerging in China around 2600 BCE, according to the ...

The North Face and a Japanese company named Spiber have joined forces to create the Moon Parka, a prototype parka made from synthetic spider silk. Its design is based on the North Face’s Antarctica ...

After graduating from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, she worked for a while in Scotland before returning home to Ireland and starting a fashion label in Dublin on Dawson Street in 2012 called ...

The North Face Moon Parka is made with silk proteins produced by engineered bacteria. It marks a shift at the intersection of fashion and biology, where sustainability and high-performance are no ...

The Moon Parka, North Face’s first apparel prototype. The North Face Outdoor apparel brand The North Face revealed Tuesday its prototype of the Moon Parka, a jacket made of synthetic spider silk, as ...

Sports apparel manufacturer Goldwin and biomaterial research company Spiber are teaming up to deliver a new prototype ski jacket. This garment features Qmonos construction, a protein material that ...

Though there's nothing wrong with your standard issue spring outerwear (a denim jacket, a mac coat, maybe an M-65-style utility jacket), but some sometimes you've gotta crank up the volume to a level ...