Disappearing fashion – how extreme can you get?

Fashion has always been the core of this module- but how has other people used ephemeral fashion to represent their feelings?

Helen Storey was one inspiration to this concept of mine, but after further researching into this area of dissolving fashion, I have come across other institutes with the same environmental thoughts of mine.

Sheffield Hallam University previously designed and presented a series of wedding dress with a dissolving concept and technology. http://www.trendhunter.com/ reported the wedding dresses to dissolve in 5 stages, all creating differently designed garments and as quoted by editor Allison Love

‘’not dissolving completely, but definitely changing from a wedding dress you would rather forget, to multiple completely new clothing choices’’  Trend Hunter, Dissolving wedding dress, May 11 2010

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/dissolving-wedding-dresses

Sheffield Hallam University, Dissolving Wedding Dress

This collection was particular designed to change the way peoples deal with clothing, in particular – the throwaway fashion market.

In conclusion, I think this collection is really interesting and definitely something which I should explore in my ephemeral concept. Not only does it play with the idea of altering garments to maximise its uses, it was also similar to my thought - designed to attack the throwaway fashion market… but is now the right time to express through fashion?

Nevertheless, it has made me crave even more to start this disappearing final piece of mine….