Alice Zantedeschi, a 26 year-old student from Verona, invented a new fabric by mixing an marble stone with synthetic or organic materials commonly used in the textile industry.

Verona, renowned for being home of Romeo and Juliet, is also famous for its wine and marble quarries. The local stone has a peculiar pale pink color, as opposed to the more famous white Carrara marble. Grinding the stone to dust and adding it to polyurethane or wool gives the fabric a natural pink color, otherwise achievable using dyes. The technique seems to work best with synthetic materials used in sportswear.

Alice started this project for her dissertation at the Polytechnic University of Milan.