Save the world and look good doing it, with the world’s first air purifying dress

Want to save the world and do it in style? Then Herself – currently on display at the University of Ulster as part of the Ulster Festival of Art and Design – might be the dress for you.

The elegant blue gown doesn’t let you leap tall buildings in a single bound or know what evil lies in the heart of man, but it might help clean the air of pollution. More Captain Planet than Superman.

The brainchild of fashion designer/artist Helen Storey, scientist Professor Tony Ryan and textile designer and University of Ulster academic Trish Belford, the dress takes existing technology used in construction and applies it a new and innovative way – in the washing machine.

The science – simplified for the arts journalists – is that a catalyst would be introduced to the laundry cycle. It would bond itself to the clothes, which would then purify the air as they were worn.

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