Is This Peak LBD? Scientists Reveal Dress Made With Darkest Ever Fabric

The little black dress just went full void-mode. Cornell scientists, inspired by a ridiculously extra bird-of-paradise that absorbs light like it’s personally offended by photons, have created the darkest wearable fabric ever—reflecting a pathetic 0.13% of light and staying matte-black from basically any angle. They took wool, dunked it in fake melanin, zapped it in a plasma chamber for nano-spikes, and voilà: an LBD so black it makes Vantablack look like it shops at the glow-stick aisle. Fashion meets physics in the ultimate “disappear into the night” flex—perfect for galas, stealth missions, or just hiding red-wine spills forever.