Fashion designer Rahul Mishra was so enthralled by mushrooms’ starring role in David Attenborough’s documentary A Life on Our Planet that he based his entire spring 2021 couture collection on fungi.
Mushroom packaging is also in vogue even though it costs 10 times more than styrofoam at the moment.
“When you’re gifting a candle in mushroom packaging, you are gifting your values, advocating for a plastic free future,” so says paraffin free candle label Amen founder Rodrigo Garcia Alavarez. From lab to bag, it seems that fungi -derived materials are fashion’s latest fix.
