Rethinking Materials with Caroline Zimbalist

About this episode

Lexy interviews biomaterial artist Caroline Zimbalist about sustainable fashion and the importance of materials.

This week, Lexy sits down with Caroline Zimbalist, a New York-based biomaterial artist and designer creating sculptural clothing, jewelry, and objects from handmade bioplastics. Her work sits at the intersection of fashion, art, and sustainability, using natural materials like seaweed-derived ingredients and cornstarch to imagine what fashion could look like beyond petroleum-based synthetics. In this episode, Lexy and Caroline talk about why materials matter, what it means to create ...

People in this episode

Host: Lexy Silverstein

Guest: Caroline Zimbalist

Topics covered

• biomaterials
• sustainability
• fashion
• art
• design

Keywords

• biomaterials
• sustainability
• fashion
• bioplastics
• design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York

Products: bioplastics, seaweed-derived ingredients, cornstarch, petroleum-based synthetics

Books & works: biomaterial artist, sculptural clothing, jewelry, objects

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