--- The Biological Tailor-Made aims to speculate on an alternative role of fashion designer in the age of biotechnology and invert the system of the current fashion industry by the power of Bio-hacking through improving the conventional pattern cutting techniques for emerging bio-material in particular. In order to tackle the complex task of developing a bio-fashion prototype, I worked in parallel running modules according to discipline –Fashion, Digital Fabrication and Bio-hacking. ⅰ Fashion: I made a tailored suit by custom made process. Traditional Tailor-Made is the analogy of this work. ⅱ Digital Fabrication: Scanned, digitized the fashion pattern, and edited the data for 3D design process, and milling it with a large scale CNC machine. CNC processing the tailored-suit data with the Shopbot, which is specialized for large scaled data, especially for architects. ⅲ Bio-Hacking: SCOBY produces celluloses by the principles of fermentation and a sheet of cellulose is layered to expand its volume and capacity. A metabolic system of new bio-materials enables us to control its shape according to the mold. if one incubates SCOBY on a curved surface, SCOBY will follow that curve when it dries. The 2.5 dimensional pattern can express the curved surface shape to fit a woman’s body: It also creates the possibility of introducing Bio-hacking and Digital Fabrication into Fashion Design. --- Design and Research: Kazuya Kawasaki --- Supervisor: Dr. Daijiro Mizuno PhD (RCA) Film: Hayate Kobayashi Music: Kenta Tanaka Project Assistant: Kotaro Sano Model: Tamami Ohbuchi --- © Kazuya Kawasaki. All Rights Reserved.