Back in the 1990s Manel Torres was studying for a PhD in Fashion with Dr Suzanne Handley at the RCA. ‘I realised there is so much you can do in London, I had this crazy idea of being able to dress people with a spray-on fabric. If I could spray fibres and dress everyone, cutting the process of designing.’ He admits friends thought it was crazy and he took a while to convince himself but as he says, he just ‘took advantage of what the Victorians created, “one mile of knowledge” in the areas of South Kensington,’ where the Royal College of Art sits next to Imperial College. He realized that to achieve his goal of creating spray-on fabrics from an aerosol he would need chemistry expertise which he got from Imperial College’s Professor Paul Luckham, who became joint-supervisor of Torres’ PhD.
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