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The latest industry news, case studies and interviews on trends, products, and events in fashion-tech, smart textiles, pervasive healthcare, and wearable technologies.
Fashion Futures by Bradley Quinn Book Review
Newly arrived on my desk is Bradley Quinn’s recent coffee table book on fashion and technology entitled Fashion Futures. Part of a series on “Futures’ which inludes “Design Futures” and “Textile Futures” published by xx, it’s a beautifully documented collection of images by some of the most exciting designers working at the intersection of high ...
Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Muses
The recent exhibition “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” being held at the Metropolitain Museum of Art in New York from May 10–August 19, 2012.
Smart Fabrics 2012 Conference Highlights
A few weeks ago I attended the annual Smart Fabrics Conference 2012 held in Miami, Florida. This industry-focused event brings together owners, players, entrepreneurs and developers from various textile-based R&D fields interested in intelligent embedded technological applications. The highlights of Smart Fabrics centered around two principal areas: academic research and industrial applications. Guided by an ...
Open Source + Craft Conference Deadlines
Two exciting calls for upcoming conference events on craft, fashion and technology! Open Source Hardware Association in partnership with Eyebeam Art + Technology Centre are organizing the Open Hardware Summit 2012 to take place at Eyebeam in New York City September 27, 2012. Submission for talks, posters, and demos on the topics of: Digital fabrication; Soft ...
The Car Liberation Front
Nothing is more démodé than the car. Automobiles are ruining our economies with rampant gas-guzzling, our environment with excess pollution, and the safety of our streets and cities with expanding car lanes and speed. In Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons,” which takes place in the upper-class setting of Indianapolis, the wealthy and ambitious ...
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 ...