Samsung invites promising graduate Aurélie Fontan to design collection using just a smartphone

Keep an eye on Aurélie Fontan. A recent graduate from the Edinburgh College of Arts, the French fashion designer was one of the biggest winners at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week, having won the M&S Best Womenswear Award, the Catwalk Textiles Award and the Dame Vivienne Westwood Ethical and Sustainable Award. The reason for so many accolades? Fontan is the first student to grow her own plant-based dress using a mixture of fermented Kombucha tea, sugar, bacteria and yeast. To make the gown 100 percent biodegradable, she stitched it with soluble cable ties instead of thread.