We all love dresses that light up. You know it. I know it. Charlie Bucket knows it. That’s why the famous designer has concocted the Fluid Dress. This dress is composed of more than 600 feet of tube lighting, make it the brightest dress on the runway, driveway or wherever it is you’d wear this thing.
The oddest design choice comes with the power source. It takes a lot of power to keep 600 feet of knitted tubing lit up, so you have to literally wear the power source. This comes in the form of a backpack, which can be seen standing behind the dress. Just be sure not to cross the streams, though.
In all seriousness though, this thing is knit beautifully and would make the right gal(Or crossdresser, no hatin’) ..read more
Posted in: Dress, LED, Runway, Textile Circuit, Textiles, Wearable Tech
In an upcoming gallery show dubbed Generative, artist Alex Dodge will be playing right to our constituents by offering up pieces that merge the best of fashion with the best of tech. On display will be such luminary ideas like a shirt that is also a touch-sensitive input device and electricity-enabled shoes.
The show is running next week at the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Here is some PR stuff: “Dodge’s objects fetishize the technological imperative, or the inevitable hybridization of man and machine, as something worthy of appreciation in itself.”
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Cute Circuit has its Galaxy Dress on display aat the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. This dazzling dress features 24,000 LEDs and is a truly stunning piece of tech clothing. The dress is made with 2mm by 2mm LEDs woven into a silk chiffon and organza crinoline fabrics. This makes the dress more flowing and wearable. Power comes from several iPod batteries that are hidden into the garment itself. This is perhaps the most tasteful LED garment to date.
It is common for tech companies to hire promotional modeling professionals when launching a new gadget or product.
Posted in: Concept Design, CuteCircuit, Dress, LED, Runway, Tech Clothing Industry, Textiles
NYU Interactive Telecommunications student Alexander Reeder, has created a true one-off interactive textile. This stunning design features an automated butterfly laden dress with interactive behavior.The butterflies are activated by motion and are controlled but the wearers heart rate. The motion activation is triggered by proximity to the dress by other people. Motion consists of fluttering and as the person gets closer, the butterflies move upward.The butterflies are attached with magnetic snaps, which also supplies power. As the butterflies are removable, the dress can be worn with no butterflies or just one or all at once. A small gear motor is used to drive the flapping mechanism. Based on the Lilypad module, collecting data and controlling the butterfly’s wing motors. A heart rate monitor belt powered by ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, Dress, Intelligent Clothes, Runway, Tech Clothing Industry, Techno Fashion, Textiles, e-Textiles
A great way to gather power is via kinetic energy. Why not recollect energy while we are already moving? Enter the Amanda Parkes’ and Adam Kumpf’s .
This dress uses piezoelectric material creates a voltage when it is deformed like bent or twisted. An integrated rectifier circuit connects the strips to capacitors which store electrical charge and feed the electrical power to the coin batteries disguised as buttons.The creative power behind the Piezing, Amanda Parkes and Adam Kumpf are grad students at MIT Media Lab. Their Piezing power-dress was part of a runway fashion show last Friday at the ‘2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing’ at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Posted in: Dress, Runway, Tech Clothing Industry, Textiles, e-Textiles
Only a few fashion designer have the insight and ability to combine high fashion with high technology. Di Mainstone is one of the shining stars of the Haute Tech Fashion. Her journey through the world of fashion and technology is mysterious at times, her work full of mystical elements that surprise and captivate the audience.Di Mainstone is trained in fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London. Her interactive couture garments playfully explore human behavior by weaving soft-technologies into a fashion aesthetic.
Di’s eccentric style caught the attention of press and celebrities during a design partnership with cult UK labels Soochi and Choosi. Her attire sold internationally at established boutiques such as Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and Urbanoutfitters.
In 2005, Di joined Sara Diamond at the Banff New Media Institute to ..read more
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Hussein Chalayan surprised again during the Paris Fashion week the audience with ‘Technology meets high Fashion’ by showing a Sparkling Crystal Dress.
To underline his ability and willingness to challenge traditional aspects of fashion, Chalayan bended the rules a bit by deciding to show his collection in the from of a short movie rather then with models on the runway.
If you are interested to watch the complete show from Chalayan on video, showstudio.com has it for your viewing pleasure.
We are most interested in our coverage on the Sparkling Crystal Dress Chalayan presented at the end of his ‘08 S/S collection in which he used again technology to create a new fashion dimension.
The Crystal Dress (my naming) is an evolution based on Chalayan’s Mechanical Dress and his LED Dress. It uses hundreds ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, LED, Light Emmiting Fabric, Lighting, Runway
Angel Chang is a innovative Fashion Designer who blends technology and fashion in the most advanced and beautiful way we have seen so far.
The way she thinks about fashion and technology is remarkable, head over to the write up we have posted back in January or to her site.
Hussein Cahalayan is doing a great job in experimenting with technology and fashion but Angel Chang is creating real world clothing that look like ‘out of this world’. Her Fall 2007 collection include great looking dresses with iPod controls. We like the way she integrates almost invisible those controls. This is what makes her creations outstanding compared to the more ‘traditional’ approach of the iPod Jackets we have seen so far.
Angel Chang is not ‘only’ using electronic functions for integration, another part ..read more
Posted in: Dress, Jacket, Runway
Hussein Cahalayan did again surprise and excite the Wearable Electronic Fashion world again with his latest creation presented during the Milan Design Week last weekend.
The last time, Hussein has surprised the Fashion world was during the summer/spring 2007 show last autumn in Paris with the mechanical dress.
This time, Hussein presented a Video Dress that is even more exiting, showing a time lapse of a rose opening and closing up, in a spectacular display of colors and light, created from 15.000 LEDs that are embedded in the fabric.
Though all those LEDs will need quite some power and might not be very practical, it is for sure a brilliant idea and concept that is very pleasant to look at. Hussein Cahalayan truly understands on how to use and combine electronic functionality and ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, Display, Runway
The Milano Moda Uomo (Milan Menswear) Spring 2008 is poised to tackle Menswear 2.0 as it elevates fashion into the 21st century.
Menswear 2.0 sounds like geek speak. The internet now has Web 2.0, which means that it has evolved since it burst into the scene during the 1990s and literally changed the way we live and communicate, Menswear 2.0 also means taking it into an entirely new level.
Last month during the ‘Fashion in Motion‘ show, Zegna, a well known brand of men’s luxury clothing participated in the runway show that featured the most innovative and creative products and prototypes in Wearable Electronic.
FashionWindows has an excellent article posted about Fashion and Technology = Wearable Electronic. Here are a few statements from this article:
Zegna’s iJacket, a luxury sport jacket that features an ..read more
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