Just Less than two months after Levi’s® presented the Redwire™ DLX spring/summer 2007 collection, the Jeans are hitting the stores now.
The Redwire™ DLX is available in US and Japan in two different styles and two colors for men and for women.
One model is named Carrot, has the Slough fit and tapered leg. The Capri Redwire DXL is based on the Knee Knocker models with Slough fit as well.
Both Redwire™ DLX models have the iPod® docking cradle built into a hidden side pocket. A red wire (yeah, that’s why they call it Redwire) connects the cradle to the Jeans. Retractable headphones are fixed in a housing on the waistband.
The removable joystick is part of the watch pocket which controls the standard functions of the iPod like play, pause, track forward/back and ..read more
Posted in: Clothing, Jeans, Levis, iPod Fashion
The winter season is over, no more iPod Jackets and other Wearable Electronic winter gear.
Levis, a well known contributor to the Wearable Electronic trend – think about the ICD+ Jacket, co-developed and designed between Philips Design and Levis – has not less than eleven new styles of jeans and trousers for men and women in their collection for the spring/summer 2007 season.
That’s excellent news for us iPod addicted folks that need iPod compatible outfits after we got used to that over the last winter season.
This new collection for 2007 follows the successful retail launch of the Red Wire DLX jeans in Fall 2006. It is also highly noticeable that next to the high product sales, Levi Strauss has reported that the Fibretronic enabled products have added US$5 billion of brand ..read more
Posted in: Clothing, Jeans, Levis, iPod Fashion
URANIUM Jeans is a French company devoted to bring the newest and innovative interactive clothing to market.
URANIUM Jeans introduced concept designs of Jeans and T-Shirts that have a flexible color micro-screen Display, made up of 273 pixels, embedded into the clothing. The display content can be changed to show different images/words using the built-in remote control.
The company claims that some models can work even with your cell phone through data transmission to change images/words. Up to 18 slogans with a maximum of 25 characters each and 33 animated pictures can be stored in the memory of the display.
The Uranium collection will sell for 90 Euros for a T-shirt and up to 250 Euros for a pair of jeans. Stores will open in the main fashion capitals of the world in ..read more
Posted in: Clothing, Concept Design, Display, Jeans, T-Shirt, Uranium
The Levi’s RedWire DLX aka iJean is another clothing item that tries to integrate the iPod usage in an unobstrusive and fashionable way.
This is one of the first pieces of apparel offered by a mainstream brand to integrate the iPod technology.
The iPod is connected inside a side pocket. The jean is machine washable once the iPod is removed. The “Hip” remote control is externally designed into the jeans’ watch pocket to enable operation of the iPod. Standard control functions like play/pause, track forward, track back and adjust the volume control are possible without removing the iPod from the pocket.
A retractable headphone unit has been built directly into the jean to help prevent tangles and efficiently manage the iPod earphone wires.
The RedWire part of the type name is explained by the red ribbon ..read more
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It seems Philips is going into the fashion and textile business. First there was the ICD+ Jacket together with Levi, then the Lumalive textile display last September and now a really smart fabric.
Philips shows us a way which gives hope that the fitting-room fiascos will become a thing of the past ….. if this concept ever forays into the world of fashion.
The consumer electronics giant has come up with a concept to change the size, shape and style of clothes by weaving “muscle wires” into the fabric. The wires are made of shape-memory alloys that change length according to the small current passed through them.
Here’s how it could work: you try on a special pair of Philips’ trousers, and connect up to a power source that changes the length ..read more
Posted in: Jeans, Philips, Super Smart Fabrics, e-Textiles
