Textile design graduate Jasmine Linington establishes seaweed as a high-end fashion material with her collection of nature-derived couture garments.

In a bid to address the environmental impact of the fashion and textile industry, the Edinburgh College of Art MFA student looked to the Scottish shores for more sustainable materials.
Every element of Linington's Seaweed Girl clothing line is made using seaweed and wood ? from the fibres and the dye they're coloured with to the bead-like embellishments.

SeaCell  ? an Austrian-made fibre produced by embedding dried, crushed seaweed into cellulose fibres using nanotechnology ?  acts as the base fabric for the collection.
These soft, silk-like seaweed fibres are produced using the Lyocell production method that breaks down hardwood into chips that are then fed into a digester that softens them into a pulp.
According to the company, the resulting textile is 100 per cent biodegradable and carbon-neutral.
The designer used the by-products of the seaweed harvesting process in an eco-resin to create coloured bead-like embellishments.

This not only contributed to her zero-waste production, but was also a way of showcasing the "amazing colours offered by seaweed", which include earthy shades of purple and sea green.

"I was keen to find a purpose for the seaweed dye by-product as it was important to me to create something that captures, preserves and celebrates the journey that the seaweed has been on," Liningt...