Organized around the official launch of Functional Aesthetics, Visions in Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour, the Fashionable Technology Event Series is an must-go event for all fashionable technology designer in and around NYC.

The event starts on Friday Nov. 19th at 2pm with a Symposium with a long list of interesting speaker like Stacey Burr (Adidas Wearable Sports Electronics), Despina Papadopulous (5050 LTD), Kate Hartman (Ontario College of Art & Design) and many more.

The book launch Functional Aesthetics including book signing by Sabine Seymour takes place between 5-6pm with an introduction by Sven Travis, Dean, School of Art, Media, Technology, Parsons The New School for Design.

A Paper Electronics Workshop is the next event in this exiting series taking place between 6-7pm. Paola Giumerans & Cecilia Elguero will introduce participants to paper electronics and teaches them how to build simple, paper soft circuits.

This exiting afternoon/evening event will be rounded off with an Exhibition, open from 7-10PM showcasing the miCoach from Adidas, Ripcurl’s H-Bomb heated wetsuit, Lost Values’s zippy kit, the Gluejeans by Droog, Sun by Moondial and the brand new fabrik.it wearable technology modules.

The Fashionable Technology Event Series participation is open and free to the public, an excellent opportunity to connect, network and get inspired in the area of fashionable technology.

Fashion design student Kristi Kuusk, currently studying at USP (University of São Paulo) is lighting up her creations – literally – by adding LED sparkle to a crocheted skirt.

The twist on Kristi’s design: the sparkle comes only to life when the skirt and a ring come together. Her concept of ‘miracles start to happen when two separate parts come together‘ is made by using a magnetic switch.

Each time the ring comes near the skirts magnetic counterpart the LEDs, symbolizing a snow flake, will give off it’s shine, imitating the snow’s shiny effect in the darkness.

Aspiring fashion designer like Kristi and many others start to explore the options and possibilities electronic technologies have to offer to create new visual effects on clothing.

Over many years, static materials have been used to add glimmer and glitter, to add contrast and eye caching effects on clothing.

Electronic technologies will not take over the whole fashion world but they will find it’s valuable place next to other fashion decoration elements and techniques.

It took some time to finally sit down to give you the view of talk2myShirt on the latest and greatest book about wearable electronic: Sabine Seymour‘s ‘Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology’.

It’s a page turner and extensive resource for inspiration in the field of technology meets fashion – or the other way around.

Fashionable Technology stands clearly out from the many other books about wearable electronic by presenting in short but sharp introduction designs from all the big and famous creative people in the wearable technology field.

But this is not all this book is covering: an expansive list of resources spanning materials, technologies, companies, institutes and organizations that are active in wearable technologies. This overview makes this book a powerful tool to start research on wearable technologies and interactive fashion.

This long and comprehensive list of resources offers an up-to-date view of the technologies, the market and the future perspective of Fashionable Technologies.

The glossary includes also a list of blogs and websites as well as an overview of events relevant to wearable technologies.

A resourceful, informative and easy to read collection of wearable electronic information making Fashionable Technologya page turner and highly inspirational treasure chest for future fashion designer.