BIOMIMIC

In fashion
BIOMIMICRY
• Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies
found in nature to solve human design challenges
• Biomimicry offers an empathetic, interconnected understanding of how
life works and ultimately where we fit in. 
• It is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies used by species
alive today. 
• The goal is to create products, processes, and systems—new ways of
living—that solve our greatest design challenges sustainably and in
solidarity with all life on earth.
Biomimicry has been of great usage in various fields of working. But in fashion
industry, it is not just for use but also to produce and present a good looking
garment or fabric which pleases the eyes of people who look at them. The usage of
biomimic concepts in the regular life of people was started to be accepted by people
gradually from 1995 and that has been recorded since then upto 2011. The chart on
the increase is shown as follows.
 Usage of biomimicry in production

Biomimetic publication by year

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 The current development in biomimic

• There are different methods

adopted in the
implementation of biomimic
concepts in real life.
• The chart based on how they
are implemented is given in
this table.
BIOMIMICKING IN FASHION INDUSTRY:
Nearly everything around us is inspired by designs found in nature, and the
clothing industry is no exception. Under the pressure of the drive to be eco-
friendly and sustainable, the fashion industry is investing in biomimicry to design
and develop new materials inspired by nature.
Jenyn Benyus is commonly acknowledged for establishing the concept of biomimicry, which she defines from
the Greek bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning imitation. In her seminal text, Biomimicry: Innovation
Inspired by Nature (1997), Benyus defines the relationship of nature to biomimicry in terms of three aspects:
1. Nature as model
2. Nature as measure
3. Nature as mentor

In this definition, nature as model means using studies of nature’s designs and processes and then imitating
them to solve human problems. Nature as measure recognizes that there are 3.8 billion years of evolution which
demonstrates what works and is appropriate. Nature as mentor is based on a re-evaluation in thinking about
nature in terms of not what we can extract from it but what we can learn from it . The practice of biomimcry did
not come into existense following Benyus’s definition; the earlier term ‘biomimetics’ was used by Otto H
Schmitt to describe the 65 crossings between biology and engineering. It is common for architects, designers
and artisans to take inspiration from nature so while the science of biomimicry may be new, the principles
behind it are not. The scientific field of study, called biomimicry, and its design applications, has developed since
1997 largely due to the efforts of Benyus, the influence of her text, and others working alongside her to
establish the Biomimicry Institute. This emerging disIipline is also described by Benyus as ‘a movement,a
solution-seeking methodology, a philosophy, and an approaIh to design. ‘
• Biomimicry concerns many sectors of human
activity. From medicine to research, industry,
economy, architecture and urban planning,
agriculture and management… This list is not
exhaustive because biomimicry is, above all, a
question of how we approach these areas of
expertise. Therefore, it may apply more or
less directly to all sectors.
• The concept of biomimicry is based on a key
idea: nature always operates on the Biomimicry: Fields Of
principles of economy and efficiency while
generating no waste. Remember Lavoir Application And
saying “nothing is lost, nothing is created, Perspectives
everything is transformed”? That’s the idea.
No matter the field of application, the
biomimetic philosophy is part of a global Biomimicry concerns many sectors of human
strategy of responsible and sustainable activity
development that aims to balance the way
the planet’s resources are used.
 Thus biomimicry plays an important role in day to day life of
people. Now biomimicry is a concept which can never be denied.
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