Grown by bacteria in Mexico.
Celium™
Premium Cultivated Cellulose.
We grow Celium™ by feeding bacteria with agro-industrial fruit waste.
Rooted in biology
Guided by design
Refined into Celium™
Celium™ is a new generation of cultivated materials.
Grown by bacteria nourished with agro-industrial fruit waste, it forms during fermentation as a cultivated sheet of cellulose. This biological origin gives Celium™ a coherent structure that is resilient, soft, and inherently adaptable.
After cultivation, the material undergoes a stabilization process that defines its characteristics. During this stage (our equivalent to tanning), we refine thickness, handfeel, flexibility, and overall performance. Once stabilized, Celium™ can be finished through color, embossing, or protective finishing, extending its visual and functional possibilities while preserving its biological foundation.
Celium™ does not imitate existing materials; it stands as a category of its own. Each sheet carries subtle variations linked to its living origin, resulting in a refined, high-performance material capable of adapting across applications. Cultivated with precision and shaped through intention, Celium™ reflects a new approach to making: one that begins with life and evolves through design.
One material, multiple expressions
Performance Meets Possibility
One cultivated material can take on many roles. Celium™ begins as a cultivated sheet of bacterial cellulose, but its behavior is defined in the hands of designers and makers. It can drape, fold, and stitch like a soft surface, or be structured into precise, architectural forms. The same origin can become a garment panel, a bag shell, a lighting element, or a piece of furniture detailing.
Its versatility comes from how it responds to transformation. Celium™ can be cut cleanly, layered, perforated, embossed, or combined with other substrates to adjust body and support. Surface finishes introduce color, protection, and texture without erasing the material’s depth. This combination of responsiveness and stability makes it suitable for both tactile, close-to-skin pieces and more robust, spatial applications.
Across these uses, Celium™ maintains a coherent identity: a cultivated material with a refined hand, visual definition, and a clear link back to its biological origin. Rather than mimicking existing materials, it gives designers a single, consistent base they can push in multiple directions, exploring new expressions without changing the underlying source.
Celium™ comes in three distinct formats, each with its own texture, character, and possibilities for design from soft, flexible surfaces to translucent layers and expressive, sculptural forms.
Celium™ — Premium Cultivated Cellulose
A soft, flexible surface with customizable colors, textures, and embossed finishes. It can be cut, folded, stitched, and combined with backing materials for added support.
Celium™ Manto
A translucent sheet without backing, revealing the material’s organic patterns and depth. Its interaction with light brings warmth and visual texture to objects and spaces.
Celium™ Espumante
A distinctive, foam-like texture with organic marbling and variations in color. Its pronounced surface gives each piece a character shaped by growth.
Where biology meets creativity, the future unfolds.
How to Work with Celium™
Celium™ is available in full sheets, sample kits, or through custom developments. Brands, studios, and independent designers can request materials directly from our team by filling out the inquiry form or contacting orders@polybion.bio.
Each request begins with a short conversation. We help identify the most suitable version of Celium™, discuss quantities, finishing, and timelines, and offer tailored guidance for your intended application. For small developments, the minimum order is two sheets of 17 sq.ft. each, ideal for prototyping. For customized color or material characteristics, the minimum order is 63 sheets. For pricing, please contact our team.
Celium™ is grown to order. Although our production is fully scaled, cultivation happens batch by batch, which means we operate through a delivery pipeline and often work with a waiting list. Once your order enters production, we coordinate cultivation, finishing, and shipment from our headquarters in Mexico to any destination worldwide.
Celium™ is cultivated with care, and so is every collaboration that begins with it.
Celium™ Espumante at Vogue’s Día de Muertos Gala
- Published on
- November 7, 2026
A new material finding its place in Mexican culture.
At Vogue’s Día de Muertos Gala in Mexico City, El Malilla wore a CAMPILLO jacket made with Celium™ Espumante in Iron Strata. Vogue included the look among its selection of the evening’s best menswear.
The Mexican reggaeton artist, originally from Valle de Chalco, has taken his music from local stages to international festivals including Coachella. His appearance connected contemporary Mexican music, fashion, and biotechnology through a piece with a distinctive material identity.
A celebration of Mexican creativity
Held at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, the 2026 gala brought together fashion, art, and music around Día de Muertos. Its theme, Espíritu monumental: Miradas al muralismo femenino, paid tribute to the women who helped shape Mexican muralism.
Jessica Alba, Luis Gerardo Méndez, and Renata Notni joined Karla Martínez de Salas as hosts. Guests included Yalitza Aparicio, Aislinn Derbez, and Ludwika Paleta, while Sebastián Yatra performed during the evening. Mexican cultural heritage provided a starting point for contemporary expressions across clothing, music, and art.
The warmth of cempasúchil, expressed through material
Within that setting, Iron Strata 's orange tones echoed the cempasúchil flowers associated with Día de Muertos.
The connection extends beyond color. Its saturated orange and deeper marbled shades recall the folds of cempasúchil petals, where light and shadow create depth within each flower. Espumante’s irregular texture adds to that visual affinity, suggesting the movement and dimension of densely layered blooms.
In CAMPILLO’s jacket, those qualities become a subtle reference to the celebration, carrying the warmth and vibrancy of cempasúchil into a contemporary garment.
Grown with character
Celium™ begins with bacteria fed with agro-industrial fruit waste. Through fermentation, they produce a cellulose structure that Polybion harvests, transforms, and finishes into a material ready for designers to work with.
In Celium™ Espumante, that process produces a distinctive texture and organic, marbled patterns. Variations across its surface give each sheet its own character, becoming part of the identity of the finished garment.
For designers, these characteristics offer a new material language. Texture, color, and pattern become elements to interpret through silhouette and construction.
From cultivation to cultural expression
CAMPILLO shaped that material character into a jacket. El Malilla made it his own.
For Polybion, this is where material development takes on another dimension: when the properties refined through cultivation and transformation become part of how someone dresses, moves, and expresses themselves.
Grown in Mexico, designed in Mexico, and worn as an expression of contemporary Mexican culture.
Credits
Design and Fabrication: Campillo
Material: Celium™ Espumante by Polybion™
Photography: Vogue Latam
Press & Sales
Press: press@polybion.bio
Campillo: contacto@campillo.mx
Work With Celium™
Polybion™: orders@polybion.bio