by Corinne
We don’t usually get too excited about colors here at Gypsy Warrior. Once a year when Pantone releases their color of the year we relinquish our all-black wardrobes for like, a hot second, before we’re back at it looking like a goth kid at a funeral. But finally, FINALLY a color has arrived that we can get excited about without taking off our dark apparel.
Welcome to Vantablack.
There it is, on the left!
What is this mystical sounding element, you may ask? Well, you know those memes that talk about how you’ll stop wearing black when they invent another color?
Vantablack is that color. It’s the color of our very souls, tbh.
For a more official description, read the FAQ from the company that created this magic witchery, Surrey NanoSystems:
“Vantablack is not a black paint, pigment or fabric, but is instead a functionalised ‘forest’ of millions upon millions of incredibly small tubes made of carbon, or carbon nanotubes. Each nanotube in the vantablack forest has a diameter of around 20 nanometres (that’s about 3,500 times smaller than the diameter of the average human hair), and are typically from around 14 microns to 50 microns long. A surface area of 1 cm2 would contain around 1,000 million nanotubes.
Light energy striking the Vantablack surface enters the space between the nanotubes and is rapidly absorbed as it ‘bounces’ from tube to tube and simply cannot escape as the tubes are so long in relation to their diameter and the space between them. The near total lack of reflectance creates an almost perfect black surface. To understand this effect, try to visualise walking through a forest in which the trees are around 3km tall instead of the usual 10 to 20 metres. It’s easy to imagine just how little light, if any, would reach you.”
Incredibly scientific and incredibly fucking cool. This has huge implications for the art world, science world and hopefully even fashion world down the line; goodbye, boring-ass LBD, make way for the much better LVD! According to science, it’s like looking into a black hole. The material is so dark, you can’t even contextualize it as material; it appears to just suck your vision into it, like a beautiful piece of jewelry or a really great photo of Alexander Skarsgaard. You literally can’t focus on anything else. Doesn’t that sound exactly like the type of material all your clothes should be made of!?
Alas, the exclusive rights to this material in terms of the art field were just purchased sculptor Anish Kapoor, who we are kind of salty at because who purchases the rights to an entire color!? Thankfully this move doesn’t apply to fashion, so as soon as someone makes the first Vantablack Leather Jacket can you give us a call? Thanks.
Until then, make sure to check out our Black Sale online; if you can’t have one thing in Vantablack, at least you can have a lot of things that are regular-black.
xx
(All Images from The Wonderful Internet)
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