Fleeting fabrics

摘要

Imagine if last season's dress or suit vanished of its own accord after some expiration date. In a comment on our disposable culture, Valentino-trained fashion designer Helen Storey is using know-how from materials science to make a show of frocks that dissolve slowly in water.Her couture creations, made from biodegradable polymer threads, are being publicly drowned in a gallery window near London's busy shopping hub, Oxfor Street. Storey has long harboured concerns about our attitudes to waste and recycling, and during her career has woven plastic refuse bags and reused rags to make boas and evening gowns.