Fashion
Adding fashion to wearable electronics
From Nokia’s fashion-focused L’Amour Collection that turned phones into hand-held jewelry done way back in ’05, I’ve enjoyed watching companies and designers use fashion to differentiate their products. If you ...
High-Tech Couture Made Without Any Stitches Or Cuts
Royal College of Art textile student Jungeun Lee, has created a collection of gorgeous garments that are constructed without any stitches or cuts called Wrapped Garment. The garments use synthetic ...
Funding a computational dress project
Kickstarter, a crowdfunding service, has been opening up doors for designers and artists to help fund their projects. One of the latest projects includes Mary Huang‘s computational couture called Continuum, ...
Living Clothes collection from Alice Ziccheddu
In collaboration with argentinian 3D environment designer Carolina Travi, Alice Ziccheddu designed a collection of these gorgeous 3D digital garments called Living Clothes. There are quite a few explorations popping up ...
An incredible wearable technology resource list
Digital media designer-artist, theorist and curator Valérie Lamontagne has an incredible wearable technology resources page that lists the who’s who and who’s upcoming in the wearable technology and eTextile field. ...
A color-changing collection
Fashion designers are continuing to explore garments printed with color changing inks. The latest is Rainbow Winters Spring Summer Collection 2011 featuring garments that are printed with special thermochromic and hydrochromic ...
3D printed footwear
Designer Marloes ten Bhömer is focusing on mechanical couture through a series of beautiful 3D printed footwear called Rapidprototypedshoe. They are “built using an additive manufacturing technology in which successive ...
Vega Wang’s Into the Deep collection
Wearable technology can be broken up into many categories such as practical, medical, performance, and expressive (among many others). There have been a lot of explorations in the expressive category ...
An analog interaction rich with narrative
Fashion designer Catherine Chow has been inspiring the fashion and art community for years with her avant-garde approach to her garments and her longing to push the boundaries of everyday ...
Experimental fashion using origami and geometric patterning
Artist Mauricio Velasquez Posada has created some gorgeous experimental fashion garments titled Geomorfos. The delicate and intricate pieces of work use complex folding techniques and patterning to create unique structures ...
Connecting the body with its surroundings
University of Applied Sciences (Berlin) fashion design student Mareike Michel has designed an interactive dress that translates the body’s movement into light connecting the response with environmental surroundings. The gorgeous ...
The growing trend of geometric patterning
Fashion designer Irina Shaposhnikova created this gorgeous collection called Crystallographica, which consists of garments inspired by geological formations of crystals and minerals. The application of geometrical patterns is making a ...
Rodarte lights up his collection
During fashion week 2010, fashion designer Rodarte lit up the runway with gorgeous glowing heels that he incorporated into his showcase collection. I’ve seen a lot of “light up” clothing ...
Amy Thompson creates Plastic Analogue
This collection was recently sent to me by my friends at n-ktr. This gorgeously functional, yet slightly unwearable collection called Plastic Analogue created by Amy Thompson instantly reminded me of an analog ...
Low-resolution modeled footwear
I girl can never own enough footwear. So, in my never-ending quest for shoes that I can’t live without, I ran across these beauties created by United Nude founded by ...
About electricfoxy
Electricfoxy investigates on-body experiences that are enhanced by technology resulting in new wearable experiences that become a core part of our expression, our identity, and our individuality.
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