<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Fashion designer Iris van Herpen debuts a bioluminescent dress featuring 125 million living algae at Paris Haute Couture Week.</li><li>The dress is a collaboration with designer Chris Bellamy and biophysicists Nico Schramma and Mazi Jalaal from the University of Amsterdam.</li><li>The bioluminescent dress is made of a gel material incorporating millions of bioluminescent algae, Pyrocystis lunula, known for emitting light as a defense mechanism.</li><li>The garment emits light upon deformation and movement, keeping the algae alive, and is part of van Herpen's new fashion collection - Sympoiesis.</li></ul>

Physics meets fashion as bioluminescent dress debuts at Paris Haute Couture Week

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