Cretaceous couture: T-Rex leather handbag goes on display ahead of auction
In the Netherlands, fashion and science have collided to create the world’s first product made from lab-grown T-Rex Leather.™ The handbag is made of material engineered using reconstructed dinosaur collagen, with no animals—Jurassic or of the current Quaternary geologic period—harmed in the process.
First announced last year by creative agency VML, The Organoid Company, and biotech pioneer Lab-Grown Leather Ltd, the bag was designed by avant-garde techwear label Enfin Levé. It is currently on display at Amsterdam’s Art Zoo Museum adjacent to a life-sized T.rex statue. Following its six-week exhibition, it will be auctioned and sold to the highest bidder.
To engineer leather from an extinct species, the team began with fossilized T.rex collagen sequences. Using advanced computational biology and AI modelling, scientists predicted and reconstructed the remaining genetic information required to form a complete collagen blueprint. This fully synthesized DNA was inserted into a carrier cell line. Billions of these engineered cells were then cultivated using Lab-Grown Leather’s proprietary Advanced Tissue Engineering Platform and integrated into its Elemental-X™ product stream.
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