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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
