When baby seals were being clubbed to death in 1978 in the Magdalene Islands in Canada, the fund's crusaders painted the seals with reddye, making their coats worthless to furriers.
That's exactly what the whiz-kids from the City College of New York, Rice University and the US Army Research Laboratory have done with a new lithium-ion battery powered by reddye extracted from madder roots.
The beachy feel came across most strongly in prints especially a tie-dye motif in silk satin, which appeared in a host of flowing gowns in pink, blue, red and black.