Magical Fairytale Fashion by Diana Eng
Last week’s Fairytale Fashion Show at Eyebeam set a sparkling crown onto Diana Eng’s extraordinary exploration into technology enhanced fashion.
Regrettable I was not able to organize myself in a way to witness this event in person but with the images and videos becoming available I can very well connect to the magical experience Diana’s electrifying [...]
Fairytale Fashion Show
Diana Eng’s fabulous project Fairytale Fashion which I highlighted last November is reaching it’s final stage, the Fairytale Fashion Show at Eyebeam on February 24, 7-9pm
Models will show Diana’s Haute Tech creations to the music from hacked video game consoles. A technology enriched fashion show demonstrating the potential of wearable electronics.
The Fairytale Fashion Collection utilizes [...]
Haute Tech LED-coat
Dutch designer Wendy Legro uses light as style element in a coat design which radiates simplicity and minimalistic sophistication.
Her LED coat design features folds that open and close during movements. Inside the folds are LEDs which light up, illuminating the folds and the surrounding area.
One of the most beautiful textile light designs I have come [...]
Illuminative Sonic Top
In our series of introducing the prototypes on stage during the Sept 25 ‘Smart Textile Salon‘, a jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex, we have a sneak peek at the Illuminative Sonic Top by Travis Li, currently Research Assistant at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
The ‘Illuminative Sonic Top’, inspired [...]
Haute Tech at the Smart Textiles Salon in Gent
Hot, Haute Tech news just arrived in our inbox about the Smart Textiles Salon held in Ghent, Belgium on Sept. 25
The most exiting exhibits on show will be the Avantex award winning Klight, designed and developed by Mareike Michel and made in a cooperation between the STELLA project and the Fraunhofer IZM.
During the Smart Textile [...]
Heartbeat – invisible jewelry from Moritz Waldemeyer
Moritz Waldemeyer, the mastermind behind illuminated Haute Tech creations such as the stage wear for US rock band OK Go or the Sparkling Crystal Dress in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan presented another variant of his fashionable illumination designs during the Salone del Mobile in Milano, Italy.
The Heartbeat is a ‘new concept of invisible jewelry‘ as [...]
Italian luxury boom-bag
Tradition rich Italian luxury brand Pratesi embraces the digital age with the creation of the Guitar Backpack which incorporates a speaker/amplifier that connects to any audio player.
Made of vegetable-dyed calf leather with a mini speaker placed at the acoustic opening of a guitar. Inner slit and zip pockets along with adjustable shoulder strap complete the [...]
Interactive Haute-Tech fashion
New York City-based interaction designer and teacher Younghui Kim created the ‘Stir-It-On!‘ skirt, an interactive skirt hat reacts to any close encounter on the surface of the skirt such as bumping or touching.
Younghui got the inspiration for the ‘Stir It On!’ light effect by bioluminescent bay organisms called ‘Dinoflagellates’, a type of plankton that react [...]
Zegna high-tech fashion: Freeway Jacket with sparkle
Ermenegildo Zegna, the Italian menswear fashion house known for it’s Sports collection which fuses sport inspired design with urban style and technological innovations is expanding their Technology Style range with the ‘Freeway Jacket‘.
The ‘Freeway Jacket’ is designed to improve safety in urban outdoor travel situations. Integrated into the collar is an LED light [...]
Haute Tech from Di Mainstone – ShareWear
Di Mainstone one of the most creative artist/designer of Haute Tech Fashion and currently artist-in-residence at V2 in Rotterdam added a new model to her animated fashion collection: ShareWear, a collaboration of Di Mainstone and a team at V2 Institute for the Unstable Media.
Fusing clothing, fashion and function in the ‘zeitgeist’ of shareware, her [...]
