Alison is a designer and researcher working at the intersection of fashion and biomaterials. She earned her Bachelor of Fashion Design in London and began her career as a fashion and costume designer, with projects spanning garment design, photography, and art direction.
In 2025, Alison founded Throo Lab, where she develops lab-cultivated biotextiles made from algae and nanocellulose. Her interest in biomaterials stemmed from a pursuit of transparency in textiles. Driven by a desire to tell the story of "oneness"—that everything in the world is interconnected—she eventually realised that existing materials could not fully express this vision. This led her to create textiles from the molecule up.
Within the biomaterials field, much of the work has centered on producing substitutes for existing products such as leather or plastic. Alison takes a different path —she emphasises the material’s inherent properties. Working with organic cellulose, she seeks not to imitate but to showcase its natural transparency, textures, and potential as a category of its own.
For Alison, Throo represents permeation: passing through, going through, and seeing through. Her work brings craftmanship and science together, connecting material research with new directions for sustainable design.
