KOMBUCHA COUTURE

Kombucha Couture are unique creations from Sacha Laurin whose career as a professional cheesemaker has taken her from fermenting milk with bacteria and yeasts to fermenting green tea with SCOBYs (Symbiotic Colony of Yeast and Bacteria) and transforming the growing "colony" into live clothing and fashion. Her love and expertise in the alchemy, science and art of cheesemaking has crossed over into a passion for understanding the kombucha culture and how best to develop it as a sustainable fabric that could be used in developing countries as well as in haute couture and daily couture.

The leather is created by allowing enzymes to grow to the size of the surface they’re living on, ultimately becoming a mat of cellulose that, when dried, mimics leather.

Sacha's goal is creating and furthering this new versatile fabric that can mimic leather, canvas, silk or butterfly wings depending on growing and production techniques. Her love for color and the magical play between light and texture has inspired her to use food dyes which keep the live culture breathing and vibrant. Kombucha Couture- fashioning live culture.