Here comes the bride…aaand there goes her dress.
British researchers have developed a wedding gown that can be dissolved in water —just in time for the honeymoon—to transform it into five new wearable pieces. The trick: Polyvinyl alcohol, an odorless nontoxic polymer that breaks down in water without harming the environment. Now on display at Sheffield Hallam University’s Furnival Gallery, the dress and its subsequent permutations are the result of an unlikely union between the college’s fashion and engineering students.