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In San Francisco, mycelium-based leather company MycoWorks has partnered with French luxury goods maker Hermès to advance a new material.

Dubbed Sylvania, the new material is used in Hermès popular Victoria bag. The material employs MycoWorks new Fine Mycelium process, which enhances the mycelium as it grows.

“We could not imagine a better partner than Hermès to present our first object made of Fine Mycelium,” says Matt Scullin, MycoWorks CEO. “Hermès and MycoWorks share common values of craftsmanship, quality, innovation, and patience. A collaboration three years in the making, Sylvania is the result of a shared vision for growing the future of materials and a quest to unlock new design possibilities.”

Fine Mycelium is produced by MycoWorks facility and is then tanned and finished in France by the Hermès tanners.

Price details were not disclosed, although the brand’s most iconic design—the Birkin bag—retails for tens of thousands of dollars and buyers often find themselves on waitlists.

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