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The Color Authority™S6E08 Growing Color with Laura LuchtmanLaura Luchtman talks to TCA about her journey from fast fashion to sustainable fashion looking for a greater purpose. She experiments with natural pigments and materials, always searching for solutions to problems that exist in the fashion and textile industry. In this episode, Laura explains how she experiments with color-growing bacteria and how this process creates a new aesthetic, researching to answer that big question: can our what we wear heal us? Laura Luchtman was born in the Netherlands where she lives and works in Rotterdam. She is a textile and surface designer investigating the social, cultural, a...
2025-09-3044 min
Future Visions#4 How bacterial dyeing can change the toxic fashion industry, with Laura Luchtman and Ilfa Siebenhaar.EPISODE 4: Trendwatcher Renske Mennen, founder of Trend Agency Move, in an interview with Dutch designers Laura Luchtman and Ilfa Siebenhaar.Twenty percent of all fresh water pollution is caused by textile dyeing and treatment. Dutch designers Laura Luchtman and Ilfa Siebenhaar have collaborated to offer the textile industry a sustainable solution against toxic synthetic textile dyes.Some bacteria can produce pigment. These are biodegradable and friendly to humans, animals and the environment. ‘Living Colour’ is a biodesign research project exploring the possibilities of natural textile dyeing with living bacteria and sound frequencies.
2021-02-1730 min
The Growcast05: Natural textile dyeing with bacteria - with Ilfa Siebenhaar and Laura LuchtmanFashion designer Ilfa Siebenhaar and textile designer Laura Luchtman are both located in the fashion hub De Wasserij, in Rotterdam. Ilfa is specialized in fashion design and does research in biodesign with the main focus on how to innovate the design processes and the impact it has on the environment. Laura’s work is focused on experimental colour and material research. Together they started Living Colour, a sustainable alternative to artificial textile dyes. With their work they bridge the gap between design and science and establish a new natural colour aesthetic. They advocate for positive change and by doing so...
2020-11-2636 min