Revolutionary biomaterials
for forward thinkers.
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.
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.
THE BIO-ARCHIVE by Menos 117 brings biology, science, and design to the body.
- Published on
- August 3, 2026
Presented at the 85th edition of Intermoda, THE BIO-ARCHIVE brings together multiple expressions of Celium™ in a collection shaped by biology, experimentation, and a precise post-human aesthetic.
For its latest collection, Mexican fashion label Menos 117 approaches the body as a territory of study and clothing as an evolving interface between biology and design.
Created by designer Yunuen, THE BIO-ARCHIVE explores skin as memory, surface, and a system of information. Each garment is conceived as a specimen: evidence of a quiet evolution between the human body, cultivated materials, and technical construction.
Within this universe, biomaterials become new epidermises. Translucent, dimensional, and responsive to touch, they reveal a restrained and clinical expression of luxury. The collection imagines a future in which wearing becomes a way of inhabiting science, design behaves like biology, and biology becomes a form of art.
One material, multiple expressions
THE BIO-ARCHIVE incorporates three distinct expressions of Celium™, Polybion’s Premium Cultivated Cellulose.
Celium™ Manto appears in translucent black and greenish-grey variations, allowing light, the body, and the construction of each garment to remain partially visible through the material.
Celium™ Espumante is presented in its natural bone tone, with a dimensional surface that resembles clusters of bubbles and reveals the patterns formed during its cultivation and transformation.
The collection also introduces bone-toned Celium™ Espumante combined with red and blue biofabricated colors. Developed through a subculture process, these colors expand the material’s visual language while maintaining the texture, volume, and organic variation of its surface.
Together, the different applications demonstrate Celium’s ability to move between translucency, pigmentation, texture, and structure. The same cultivated material adapts to the designer’s cold, elegant, and technically precise vision while retaining the characteristics that emerge through biological growth.
This versatility allows Celium™ to become part of markedly different creative worlds. Its identity remains visible, while its expression changes according to color, finish, construction, and context.
Experimentation as part of the design process
Working with a new material required Yunuen Hernández and the Menos 117 team to understand how Celium™ responded to cutting, stitching, machinery, and garment construction.
The development process included testing different needle gauges, adjusting equipment, and identifying the techniques that produced the strongest visual and structural results.
“My experience working with the material was very positive and interesting. At first, I thought it would be more complex because it was completely new to me, but its manipulation is actually very similar to that of legacy materials.
As with any new material, there was a process of experimentation to understand its behavior and find the best way to work with it: defining the right needle gauge, adjusting the machinery, and discovering the techniques that offered the best results. I see this process as a natural part of developing any textile innovation.”
— Yunuen Hernández, Creative Director of Menos 117
The collection also incorporates textiles developed with X-ray imagery, technological waste, and prints applied to lower-impact fabrics, building a broader material narrative around scientific observation, discarded systems, and responsible experimentation.
A biofabricated wardrobe
In THE BIO-ARCHIVE, raw and technical surfaces coexist with metallic, translucent, and organic elements. The garments move between softness and structure, opacity and light, biological irregularity and controlled construction.
The result is a wardrobe that treats material as information. Every surface records a process: bacterial growth, pigmentation, transformation, cutting, assembly, and wear.
THE BIO-ARCHIVE was presented at the 85th edition of Intermoda, one of Mexico’s leading fashion business platforms.
Selected pieces are currently available through IKAL, Proyecto República, and directly through Menos 117’s Instagram. The collection will soon be available through the brand’s website and at an upcoming pop-up in Mexico City.