Could it possibly be true that a color even darker than our favorite go-to black has been created? Leave it to science to take fashion to a whole different level with a new color claiming its status as “blacker than black.” Using sophisticated technology, including carbon nanotubes (anyone know what those are?!?) a nanotech company based in the UK has developed the world’s blackest material ever.
Known as Vantablack, this new age material developed by Surrey NanoSystems is actually intended for astronautical and military purposes rather than the sartorial fashion uses we already have planned for the new blackest black. According to the Independent, “if this black was used to make one of Chanel’s little black dresses, the wearer’s head and limbs might appear to float incorporeally around a dress-shaped hole.” Vantablack is “so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss.” Imagine that for your new little black-blacker than black dress – you’d disappear!
While Vantablack does sound incredible for your next big night out, it was actually developed for far more serious ventures – like allowing infared scanners more effective ability and aiding astronomical cameras. Not to mention all the ways this blacker-than-black material could be used for military purposes. In addition, your next Vantablack dress probably won’t be seen on runways this fall – the material is so expensive to develop, the cost cannot be revealed. How’s that for an investment piece?
What do you think? Could blacker than black actually be the new black? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.