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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter fashion: TweetShirt
Twitter is the ‘hottest place to be’ at the moment, bringing the virtual and real world closer together than any other system. Tweet whatever is on your mind from your cellphone or notebook in short messages (similar to SMS) to [...]
Illuminated, organic dress
Canadian textile artist Marisa Ranalli created an amazing dress resembling deep sea jellyfish fashion with the use of e-textile materials like LilyPad Arduinos, LEDs and nitinol wire (an alloy that changes shape when electricity is applied) to add organic movements [...]
SWITCH (me on) hoodies from Killa
Interactive Fashion specialist Killa is holding up with our informed forecast last October to launch a firework of cool and gorgeous looking interactive apparel in 2009. The latest collection we got work off – and some first photos – is [...]
