Fashion designer Iris van Herpen is exploring the intersection of biology and wearables at the Brooklyn Museum. Her exhibition, running through December, showcases garments designed in symbiosis with living organisms. One striking piece, 'Sympoiesis,' is a dress literally composed of bioluminescent algae—a living garment that glows. According to Adafruit, van Herpen's work emphasizes the body's relationship to the space around it, turning fashion into a living, breathing art form.

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