Created in collaboration with British fashion designer Gareth Pugh, this dress has been fitted with PolyPhotonix OLED lighting panels creating that very on-trend AW09/10 look. Or something. More »
Currently showing at the 2nd Skin Exhibition at San Francisco’s Exploratorium is this piece of smart clothing by designer Stephanie Sandstrom. Inside it hide a bunch of sensors that measure the nearby air quality, along with drivers that can adjust the fabric. The idea is that on bad air days the dress detects the problem, and adjusts itself to look all rumpled and messy, and raising environmental awareness. Does that wrinkling mean it raises the hemline? I’m not sure… but if it did, that might work to take your mind off the damage being done to your health by all those airborne pollutants. [Inhabitat]
An ongoing art project by Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, the Dress Tent “poses the question of what lies under a woman’s skirt in the 21st Century.” Tent poles? Guy ropes? Seventeen eagle scouts? An entire platoon of infantry? Monged-out festival-goers? Knickers? My lips are sealed.
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newVideoPlayer("SelfSustainableChair_02_gawker.flv", 475, 376); The Self-Sustainable Chair is a polyethylene garment, filled with air automatically through shoe pumps. (Translation: your butt fills with air and you can plop down anywhere.) But if our inherent laziness is tempered through the requirement more work to be lazy, is there any point at all? ‘Nihilist Chair’ might be a better, though more depressing, name for the device. ‘Caterpillar Booty’ might also work.
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