Fashion has long looked to the past for inspiration. One season it’s all ‘90s minimalism and slip dresses; the next, it’s capri pants and thong sandals. But luxury’s latest obsession reaches back further than any trend cycle yet: 68 million years, to be exact.
This spring, Polish fashion brand Enfin Levé unveiled a handbag it claims is made from ‘lab-grown T-Rex leather.’ Developed using reconstructed collagen sequences inspired by Tyrannosaurus rex fossils, the…

