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Future Fashions: The Skin

What if we were our own victimless leathers, blood-and-sweatshops?

In 2008, I was low-key obsessed by a news story about an art installation gone wrong at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It was called “Victimless Leather” – a teeny, tiny leather jacket grown from living mice cells in a glass incubation chamber that Frankenstein-ed out of control and had

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