Away from the dire challenges of population, climate change and health, chemical companies have also played a key rule in the next generation of clothing.
The industry has consistently come up with products such as nylon that revolutionised the industry but the truth is that the industry may be about to transform yet again, thanks to some remarkable breakthroughs by everyone from chemists to imaginative fashion designers.
One of the fields of most interest is Biocouture, which uses living organisms to grow clothing and accessories in a method “closer to brewing beer” than weaving fabric.
And with wearable sports technology already mainstream, scientists are working on performance monitoring devices of increasingly smaller sizes woven into garments worn by athletes and consumers alike.
