Vogue Philippines Spotlights Celium™ in Nous Etudions’ Patagonia Editorial

Polybion has been featured in a recent Vogue Philippines article covering End of the World, Beginning of Everything, the latest editorial project by Nous Etudions in Patagonia.

Set in Ushuaia, at the southern edge of Argentina, the feature presents the collection as an exploration of biomaterials through fashion, landscape, and material experimentation. At the center of the story is Celium™, Polybion’s Premium Cultivated Cellulose, developed through fermentation and brought into dialogue with the creative vision of designer Romina Cardillo.

The article describes the project as a collaboration shaped by a shared interest in the meeting point between science and design. Over the course of several months, the teams explored different expressions of the material, testing how Celium™ could behave across garments and objects while allowing its visual and tactile qualities to guide the final pieces.

Among the looks highlighted in the feature is an oversized parka shown in Celium™’s natural ivory state. Vogue Philippines points to its sculptural volume and soft, enveloping presence, drawing a connection between the garment’s silhouette and the surrounding Patagonian landscape. The piece is paired with matching gloves and secured through hand-tied knots and cords made from the same material.

The article also features a translucent Celium™ shirt styled with structured shorts. Here, the material is presented through its semi-transparent quality, allowing light to pass through and giving the garment a delicate, almost membrane-like appearance. This piece offers another perspective on the aesthetic range of Celium™, showing how the material can move from density and structure into lightness and transparency.

Another featured look includes a tailored overcoat and trousers in pink-dyed Celium™, built from laser-cut elements that were hand-stitched into a tridimensional surface. Vogue Philippines frames this garment as a composition of organic forms, reinforcing the collection’s broader visual dialogue with marine life, movement, and natural textures.

The story also highlights a bright yellow coat with hand-pleated hood detailing, where the construction of the surface and accessories emphasizes process, gesture, and craftsmanship. Across the editorial, the garments are not presented merely as fashion objects, but as a way of examining how a biomaterial can carry structure, softness, translucency, and expressive form.

For Polybion, this feature is meaningful because it situates Celium™ within a high-visibility editorial context while acknowledging the material’s origin in biotechnology and fermentation. It also shows how Premium Cultivated Cellulose can support very different design languages, from sculptural outerwear to translucent garments and highly constructed surfaces.

More broadly, the article positions biomaterials as part of an ongoing shift in fashion, one that places greater value on process, material development, and a more conscious relationship with the natural world. We are proud to see Celium™ included in that conversation through this collaboration with Nous Etudions.

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