St Martins fashion and science combine for design festival

Evening Standard13 April 2012

Fashion students from Central Saint Martins College have teamed up with Nobel prizewinning scientists to create a new exhibition.

Their clothes and artworks will go on display at the Institute of Contemporary Arts next month as part of the London Design Festival.

They include woven self-folding textiles based on virus structures, architectural textiles for the urban garden inspired by how the body stores and uses energy, a fashion collection entitled Fat Map based on the MRI scans of volunteers and transparent wallpapers and paper lanterns inspired by the molecules regulating the cell cycle.

The Nobel laureates include Sir Peter Mansfield, a pioneer of the MRI scanner, and Sir John Sulston, a mastermind behind the human genome project.

Professor Amanda Fisher, of the Medical Research Council, said: "We wanted to be able to explore the relationship between science and design and create a dialogue between some of the brightest lights in both fields."

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