Editor
For nearly a decade, Japanese sportswear group Goldwin and biotech start-up Spiber have pursued an elusive goal: to get lab-grown fabrics out of the lab and onto the market.
It’s been an arduous journey. The pair’s first collaboration, a North Face parka made using a synthetic “spider silk,” shrank when it came into contact with water. Their next attempt was functional, but made in such small quantities that it was only available by…
