The Women Changing Fashion

From designers to policymakers – from Rosario Dawson to former senator Alessandra Biaggi and Sophia Wang– meet the women committed to shifting the fashion industry in a positive direction.

In a plant in the Bay Area, MycoWorks’ Sophia Wang is creating the leather of the future using mushrooms. Celebrity makeup artist Daniel Martin recently collaborated with the company to create a brush case, and MycoWorks got an earlier vote of confidence in 2022 via an influx of $125 million in a Series C funding round.

“Fashion is a powerful language for creating new narratives about what’s valuable, desirable, ethical, and necessary,” Wang says.

The industry is rife with accolades, but few are worth their salt when it comes to being green.

Read the full article by Naomi Rougeau in ELLE.