Byzantine Bodies represents a visual of adaptation and resilience. Here, fashion is not merely decorative but becomes essential for survival. The display presents the "dressed self" of this future — a being whose body is adorned in a skin suit constructed of trichomes from the plant commonyl known as “Lamb’s Ear”. Drawing inspiration from Jemma Battaglia’s Pollutus Planta and the tactile beauty of Stachys Byzantina (commonly known as Lamb’s Ear), our research envisions a speculative reality where humans adapt biologically to protect themselves against emerging environmental pollution through growing their own trichomes (the fuzz on the outside of plant that protects it from environmental pollutants.