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The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) students trying to spark the Indonesia’s interest by developing items colored with fungus and bacterial including those that can be easily found in bathroom in the sustainable fashion movement. The idea perhaps sounds silly, but that is exactly what Nidiya Kusmaya had in mind when she started her final thesis at ITB. She discovered the hidden beauty of Aspergillus niger, a micro fungus responsible for the black mold on damp clothes.
