Digital Textile Fashion Trend
Digital textile printing has taken fashion by a storm. The spring runways were pulsating with custom-designed Technicolor and graphic photographs, and designs and printed specifically for the cut of a garment. I see this trend as growing in a near future where print and textile patterns will be designed in tandem, both economizing material and ...
Anouk Wipprecht Interview
I just published an interview with the fantastic Dutch-based fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht on the Fashioning Technology Blog. Anouk is a leading example of what a background in fashion design combined with technology know-how can create. Above from her tremendous technical skills is her ability to craft a unique sartorial style for herself. Part futuristic, ...
Illuminated vs. Shape-Changing
What are the core differences between illuminated vs. shape-changing garments? Perhaps it is best to begin with a few examples: Illuminated displays integrated into wearables have had the most success in mainstream fashion from Cute Circuits’ “Twirkle” series of T-Shirts and dresses, to the “Galaxy Dress” with 24000 full color LEDs – the largest wearable display ...
Poiret: The Original Modernist
Modernity created a number of key factors germane to the production of “fashion” culture today: a mobile urban society where individuals at leisure could observe one another, a fluid economy that supported upward economic and social mobility and the technological means for things to be reproduced on a large material and geographical scale (i.e. publishing, ...
Futurist Modularity
The Futurists are an interesting bunch. They fetishized technology, war, pranks in general and violence. Hum…what is there not to like? Of interest is their explorations in fashion, particularly Giacomo Balla’s modular suit. Ages ahead of Andrew Bolton’s Supermodern Wardrobe (2002) in which the author argues that modern life is increasingly predicated on a need ...
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