Anke Domaske is a biologist with a penchant for fashion. The 28-year-old developed a novel fiber fabric made from milk and milk began to design mode.

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Biologist with Fashion Weakness: Anke Domaske Makes Milk Fashion
[Milk Fashion, Milk-fibers, Cotton T-shirts]
Anke Domaske is a biologist with a penchant for fashion. The 28-year-old
developed a novel fiber fabric made from milk and milk began to design mode.
Anke Domaskes talent for fashion runs in the family. Even her great-grandmother
was a fashion designer and milliner. It is also grown in the East and "because if
you wanted something special, you had to sew it themselves," says Domaske.
Already with 19 years Domaske founded after a stay abroad in Japan, her own
fashion label, Mademoiselle Chi Chi "(MCC).
Simultaneously, the Hanoverian was interested in science. As a child she has
worked with youth with research. Later she studied biology.
The impetus for the development of allergy-free fiber made from milk and
ökobasierten was a sickness in the family. In 2007, Anke Domaskes’s stepfather
diagnosed blood cancer. "The whole blood had to be replaced, and my
step-father lived in a sterile room," she says. "He reacted very sensitively to
environmental influences, because his immune system was shut down by the
disease. Witness such a thing is traumatic. "
Thus it was for Anke Domaske to combine the scientific component with the
fashion sense to make something to wear chemical-less. The result: QMilch. A
unique fiber consists of the milk protein casein.
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The fibers are milk theyself already since 1930. "The production previously
worked only with a very complex chemical process. The milk-based fibers have a
75 percent petroleum." says Anke Domaske. Their milk fibers, which they
developed in collaboration with the Bremen Fibre Institute, are antibacterial,
anti-allergic and "natural".
How are milk-fibers?
For the production of fibers needed Anke Domaske casein, the main protein of
milk, and water. In other secret, is all natural ingredients mixed into a large meat
grinder, heated and spun through a fine nozzle at the end of hair-fine threads.
Within an hour, one thus obtains two to five kilograms fibers. And the water
consumption is low. For the production of only two liters of water are required.
By comparison, for the production of an ordinary cotton T-shirts, you need 41 000
liters of water.
How many liters of milk result in a dress?
"For a dress, you need six liters of milk," says Anke Domaske. "And the casein
protein powder for the dress, of course, comes from selected dairy suppliers who
care about animal welfare, the whole chain has to be right up -. Otherwise it
would not be a sustainable product."
Milk can be bad - it can milk the fashion then?
The milk powder cannot spoil. "We use milk that does not meet the criteria of
food, but still not bad." says Anke Domaske. "It falls to a lot of milk that could be
processed, but is tilted away, because they are not subject to the food hygiene.
And that's what we use it is. "
Resource-saving milk fibers, produced from a waste product. That the recovery
of a by-product of milk production is the right way and set trends, is also reflected
in the prices which has creamed off Anke Domaske with their QMilch fibers
already: The Hanover start-up momentum in February 2011, a business
competition, and in July she won the textile + fashion Innovation Award in the
category of technical textiles.
But as the milk-mode actually feels on the skin?
"Like silk. And you sweat at all, because there is a temperature-regulating fiber,
"says Anke Domaske. The next big project is a collection of talented biologist
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entirely of milk fiber and the expansion of production.
The unique milk from Anke Domaske fibers have potential and are very versatile:
from linen lingerie on to car seat covers. Initial inquiries are one already.
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