Career
She is a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the Director of The Research Project, and Chief Creative Officer at Modern Meadow. Her recent Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project looks at ecological and sustainability issues surrounding fashion. She is working with scientists to engineer optimized organisms for growing future consumer products.
In 2007 she published Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow's Wardrobe. The book examines the work of the scientific researchers and fashion designers, such as Issey Miyake, Hussein Chalayan, and Walter Van Beirendonck, who are transforming today’s science fiction into tomorrow’s reality. Is a research project using nature to suggest an innovative future fashion vision.
Suzanne Lee uses microbial cellulose (composed of millions of tiny bacteria grown in bathtubs of sweet green tea) to produce clothing. The idea is to grow a dress in a vat of liquid. has been included in Time Magazine's annual roundup of The Top 50 Best Inventions of 2010.