Intimate Memory clothing
One of the differences between technology and fashion is the way inspiration for new designs are gathered. Technologists get inspired by looking in the distant future of Starwars while fashion designer draw a great deal of inspiration from the past. This is strictly generic speaking and I am not saying fashion designer are working on [...]
Climate Dress – CO2 sensing fashion
There is a high probability the Climate Dress was made by a Danish cooperation consisting of design studio Diffus, Danish designer Tine M. Jensen, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.
Sadly, the recently broken closed down climate conference COP15 did not come up with any significant [...]
Illuminated by wind – Flare Dress
A unique and playful concept, the Flare Dress lights up flower like LED pattern when the wind hugs you gently or, when there is no wind, you can blow on the flower shapes to make the glow.
Created by Dutch designer Stijn Ossevoort, the Flare Dress is a excellent example how a bit of electronic magic [...]
Wearable Synthesis – let your jacket do the talking
Wearable Synthesis is a project created by Akira Wakita, Motohiro Tanji, Sohei Kitada, Midori Shibutani, Masa Inakage, Hiroko Uchiyama at the Keio University, Japan back in 2005.
The concept of ‘Wearable Synthesis’ is based on the perception of clothing as a module which in fact most of our clothing is: layers of different clothing for different [...]
Fairytale eFashion
Fashion Geek Diana Eng started the Fairytale Fashion project with support of Eyebeam with the aim to make magical clothing.
Clothes with blooming flowers, clothes that breathe, change color and transform.
Diana’s education and experience as fashion designer and research at the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Dept. enables her to combine technology with fashion in [...]
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 [...]
Innovative, interactive fashion design from Novanex
During my TechTextil visit I had the opportunity for a short talk with Alexandra Baum, owner and general manager of Germany based Novanex, a design company specialized in design, product development and manufacture of innovative textiles.
Although her services are across the fashion business in general she has a high interest and years of experience with [...]
Cellphone dress
Georgie Davies, BA student at the London College of Fashion made ‘Fashionable electronic’ headlines last week with the ‘Cellphone dress‘, her winning entry to the Sony Ericsson initiative working with the School of Fashion Design and Technology at the London College of Fashion to explore the relationship between technology and fashion.
Sony Ericsson, like many other [...]
Klight – an sparkling, interactive dress
Avantex-Innovation-Award 2009 winner in the category ‘New Fashion’ was ‘Klight‘, a sparkling interactive dress was the highlight during my walk around the TechTextil.
Klight is an interactive dress which translates the body’s movement into light, connecting the body with its surroundings.
To achieve the effect, a new stretchable circuit board technology, developed by Fraunhofer IZM, was integrated [...]
Anti Paparazzi Fashion
Connecting to our article from yesterday about protecting your privacy from unwanted photo shoots we looked around to see if there are other Paparazzi blocking fashion around.
The result: the ‘Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag‘ made by Adam Harvey, interactive designer, programmer and photographer in New York City.
He created an interactive clutch bag which fires off a bright [...]
