Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That’s the idea behind a new “acoustic fabric” developed by engineers at MIT.

Every morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town, and collects scraps of fabric.

The future of fashion is moving into a new dimension where new textile technology upcycles old clothes into brand new fabrics.

Researchers have developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as the novel coronavirus.