The question of what to do with your costly wedding dress after you wear it once has been answered by Fashion and Engineering students at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. The students have developed an environmentally friendly wedding dress made with biodegradable polyvinyl alcohol included in the fabric that dissolves the dress in water after use. However, the dress doesn’t dissolve completely, rather it transforms into five more garments along the way.
“The students wanted to challenge the notion that a wedding dress should only be used once and aimed to explore modern society's attitudes towards throwaway fashion,” explains Jane Blohm, a lecturer on the fashion design course at Sheffield Hallam. “The wedding gown is perhaps one of the most iconic and symbolic garments in humanity's wardrobe and represents the challenges of 'throwaway fashion’.”
Their dresses will be on display at the A Sustainable Marriage exhibition at the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery until May 16th, 2010.
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Via FashioningTech
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written by Gulnihal , May 12, 2010