Eco Factor: Biodegradable dress made from polyvinyl alcohol.
Fashion and engineering students at Sheffield Hallam University have developed a wedding dress that could be dissolved after the wedding function to transform it into five new fashion pieces. The student team wanted to challenge the notion that a wedding dress should only be used once.
Exploring society’s attitudes toward throwaway fashion, the research team created the dress using polyvinyl alcohol, a biodegradable substance that is used in laundry bags and washing detergents, knitted into the fabric. The substance dissolves into water without harming the environment.
Via: Fashioning Tech
