Fashion designer Hsiao-Chuang Wen showed four coordinated garments containing subtle rippling light patterns as part of the the recent Future Chic event held in Shanghai, where the pieces won the design innovation award. (more…)
07Jul
Category: Event
I guess it is the sign of a growing industry, the point at which you have your first major patent suit. Start-up company Sarvint Technologies is alleging that many companies making monitoring garments are infringing U.S. Patents No. 6,381,482 and No. 6,970,731; patents that they have exclusive rights to, via a license agreement with Georgia Tech Research. The companies listed are: Athos Works, Inc., MAD Apparel, Inc. (“Athos”), Carre Technologies, Inc. (Hexoskin), OMsignal, Ralph Lauren, Sensoria, Textronics, Adidas North America Inc., and Victoria’s Secret Stores. These companies all make tops or bras that measure heart-rate and in some cases other physiological signs. (more…)
Ashish sent sparkly and glittery dresses down the catwalk at the latest Topshop show. All the garments were accompanied with LED shoes. (more…)
The fashion design students of Shih Chien university (實踐大學) created motion sensitive garments as part of their week long 2013 workshop on electronic fashion. Lab-alpha7’s team member, Paul Gough, ran the workshop with a mix of enthusiastic 1st and 3rd year students. (more…)
12Apr
OK, so this is only loosely related to electronic fashion, but it is about fashion having a sense of humour which I’m all for encouraging. (more…)
Intel is sponsoring a number of competitions under the umbrella of “Make it wearables”, where they are encouraging enthusiasts to submit 1 minute videos on possible future wearable concepts, either conceptual or more realisable. To promote this Intel have produced a number of videos showing what an exciting, nascent field this is. (more…)
Cambridge wireless bought together fashion designers, electronic engineers, technologists and business specialists, within the cloisters of University College London, for a one day event. (more…)
Freerunner light suit
Using, what look like LED jackets, together with long exposure photography, free runners in London have created beautiful images with ghostly trails of their movements.
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We missed this when it first came out last year, but some really striking dance costumes for Audi from a collaboration between Moritz Waldemeyer and Erevos Aether. The lighting is used to give hard lines to the jacket, giving a cool SciFi edge…with the helmets it has the feel of a sleek judge Dread!
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