Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne as well as a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of 444 white circuit boards (although the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). Each tile is designed in such a way as to accommodate a solar cell, a RGB [...]
Based on inovative LUMNIEX, LumiGram developed the technology that allows to wave plastic optical fibers alongside synthetic fibers, forming a luminous fabric. This innovation can be used in many fields: fashion and clothing (bags, accessories, clothes), decoration (pillows, tablecloths, curtains, …), furnitures, etc… Unlike standard optical fibers, the fiber optic fabric emits light along the [...]
Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. that create an excellent line of hats under the name EFHED. She founded the business to create her own “dream job” as a light-up clothing designer. Janet’s eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion,art, and technology. She learned to sew at [...]
Gracie Kim, who recent graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, creates the capelet that is powered by a 3V coin cell battery and 1″ x 3″ circuit board located on the back of the piece. This thesis explores current aesthetics of wearable technology. A precept of design is that form follows function. The more emphasis [...]