This lab-grown leather could hit retailers next year

Modern Meadow, the New Jersey-based startup that pioneered the world’s first lab-grown bioleather brand from genetically engineered yeast, said its material could hit popular retailers—and runways—as early as next year.

The leather, which is called Zoa, essentially ‘’looks and feels” like leather but is grown from engineered, animal-free collagen that can take on several different textures of material, giving manufacturers and designers new opportunities for innovation.