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HELEN STOREY

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Storey’s Wonderland project featured ‘disappearing dresses’ made from water-soluble PVA (polyvinyl alcohol), a synthetic polymer, that biodegraded when simply soaked in water. One of the dresses is shown here, immersed in a vat of water.

Fashion designer Helen Storey has a vision for a new generation of intelligent materials that can sense when they are no longer needed, and automatically biodegrade into substances capable of growing ...

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