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BioCir® Flex Returns to Stella McCartney’s S.WA...
From its Fall 2025 debut to its return for Fall 2026 and planned inclusion in Winter 2026, BioCir® Flex shows how next-generation materials can move beyond a first launch into continued commercial adoption. Developing better plastics means creating materials that brands can use repeatedly, with the performance and consistency their products demand. Balena’s ongoing collaboration with Stella McCartney brings that ambition into focus. Following...
BioCir® Flex Returns to Stella McCartney’s S.WA...
From its Fall 2025 debut to its return for Fall 2026 and planned inclusion in Winter 2026, BioCir® Flex shows how next-generation materials can move beyond a first launch into continued commercial adoption. Developing better plastics means creating materials that brands can use repeatedly, with the performance and consistency their products demand. Balena’s ongoing collaboration with Stella McCartney brings that ambition into focus. Following...
How Shlomit Ariel Used BioCir® Flex to Rethink ...
Intimate wear is one of apparel’s most technically demanding categories. Bras, underwear, shapewear, maternity garments and performance base layers must balance flexibility, recovery, support, softness and durability all while remaining comfortable against the skin for extended periods. Delivering this combination of qualities usually requires a complex mix of materials. A single garment may combine natural or synthetic textiles with elastane, foams, adhesives, elastic bands,...
How Shlomit Ariel Used BioCir® Flex to Rethink ...
Intimate wear is one of apparel’s most technically demanding categories. Bras, underwear, shapewear, maternity garments and performance base layers must balance flexibility, recovery, support, softness and durability all while remaining comfortable against the skin for extended periods. Delivering this combination of qualities usually requires a complex mix of materials. A single garment may combine natural or synthetic textiles with elastane, foams, adhesives, elastic bands,...
Inside the Lab: The Breakthrough Behind the Fir...
At Balena, we’re always exploring how far circular, bio-based materials can go not just in fashion and footwear, but in everyday products that bring people together. Our latest milestone? Launching the world’s first frisbee made from BioCir® X, a bacteria-fermented bioplastic that’s designed to perform hard and return safely to nature. To dive deeper into the science, challenges, and joy behind this project, we...
Inside the Lab: The Breakthrough Behind the Fir...
At Balena, we’re always exploring how far circular, bio-based materials can go not just in fashion and footwear, but in everyday products that bring people together. Our latest milestone? Launching the world’s first frisbee made from BioCir® X, a bacteria-fermented bioplastic that’s designed to perform hard and return safely to nature. To dive deeper into the science, challenges, and joy behind this project, we...
How Ema Želinská Sculpted an Entire Fashion Col...
Exploring the power of 3D printing, personal identity, and circular fashion At the intersection of wearable art, emerging technology, and sustainable design, Slovak designer Ema Želinská is quietly reshaping the future of fashion. A student at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Ema’s creative journey has already included runway showcases, national recognition, and now, a pioneering collection using Balena.Filaflex — a compostable 3D printing filament...
How Ema Želinská Sculpted an Entire Fashion Col...
Exploring the power of 3D printing, personal identity, and circular fashion At the intersection of wearable art, emerging technology, and sustainable design, Slovak designer Ema Želinská is quietly reshaping the future of fashion. A student at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Ema’s creative journey has already included runway showcases, national recognition, and now, a pioneering collection using Balena.Filaflex — a compostable 3D printing filament...
Kendra’s Vision. Balena’s Material. The 3D-Prin...
When Kendra’s design stepped onto the runway at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, it wasn’t just a senior thesis, it was a challenge to the fashion industry to rethink how materials, technology, and sustainability can collide. Crafted using Balena and Recreus, Balena.FilaFlex, a compostable, bio-based filament made for wearable innovation, the dress transformed seafoam into sculpture, fashion into function, and plastic...
Kendra’s Vision. Balena’s Material. The 3D-Prin...
When Kendra’s design stepped onto the runway at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, it wasn’t just a senior thesis, it was a challenge to the fashion industry to rethink how materials, technology, and sustainability can collide. Crafted using Balena and Recreus, Balena.FilaFlex, a compostable, bio-based filament made for wearable innovation, the dress transformed seafoam into sculpture, fashion into function, and plastic...
Exploring Modularity, Materiality, and Movement...
At Milan Design Week 2025, FOOTLOOP captured attention as more than an installation, it was a vision of what the future of footwear could look like. Developed through a three-way collaboration between Moon Rabbit Lab - specialists in computational design and digital fabrication, framas - a global leader in footwear tooling and component manufacturing, and Balena - a material science company pioneering circular, compostable materials, the project set out...
Exploring Modularity, Materiality, and Movement...
At Milan Design Week 2025, FOOTLOOP captured attention as more than an installation, it was a vision of what the future of footwear could look like. Developed through a three-way collaboration between Moon Rabbit Lab - specialists in computational design and digital fabrication, framas - a global leader in footwear tooling and component manufacturing, and Balena - a material science company pioneering circular, compostable materials, the project set out...