Victimless Leather

This is from the Tissue Culture and Art Project, I think this might have been done awhile ago but certainly still relevant. Engineered tissues are on the rise and though we may not be that close to "growing clothing" particularly in the final form like a tailored jacket but other researchers have proposed growing animal parts individually instead of the harvesting method we use now. Check out this article Paper Says Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale I wonder what PETA's position is on all of this.

"Victimless Leather - A Prototype of Stitch-less Jacket grown in a Technoscientific "Body"

Humans, the naked/nude apes, have been covering their fragile bodies/skins to protect themselves from the external environment. This humble act for survival has developed into a complex social ritual which transformed the concept of a “Garment” into an evocative object that cannot be taken on its face value.

Garment became an expressive tool to project one's identity, social class, political stand and so on. Garments are humans' fabrication and can be explored as a tangible example of humans' treatment of the Other....The Victimless Leather is grown out of immortalised cell lines which cultured and form a living layer of tissue supported by a biodegradable polymer matrix in a form of miniature stich-less coat like shape. The Victimless Leather project concerns with growing living tissue into a leather like material."