Lab-grown Tyrannosaurus leather: More chicken than dinosaur?
Key takeaways
- A handbag is promoted as the "world's first T. rex leather product." But scientists are questioning its authenticity.
- https://p.dw.com/p/5DZv WThe handbag marketed as made using T.
- Polish fashion label Enfin Leve designed the bag as part of its line of experimental clothing.
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A handbag is promoted as the "world's first T. rex leather product." But scientists are questioning its authenticity.
https://p.dw.com/p/5DZv WThe handbag marketed as made using T. rex fossil-derived collagen Image: Piroschka van de Wouw/REUTERSAdvertisement In early April, the Artis Zoo Museum in Amsterdam unveiled a handbag alongside a massive dinosaur skeleton — one made of "lab-grown T. rex leather."
Polish fashion label Enfin Leve designed the bag as part of its line of experimental clothing. But it was the material, not the design, that drew the most attention. "It has a character unlike anything we've handled. Dense, primal, operating on its own logic," the label wrote on social media. The company plans to auction the handbag on June 11 in Paris.