1. The Future Of Fashion
B Y D O M I N I Q U E
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the
street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening” – Coco
Chanel

2. Credits: Blogspot Credit: Francis Bitonti
Digital technologies have not yet been widely adopted by the fashion industry.
However, the few designers whom are accepting the change are receiving positive
responses. It’s a new evolution that brands will have to begin adapting to.
I suppose the main conflict is imposed by the Hollywoodized ideas of future fashion.
Bitonti, a designer currently experimenting with technological fashion suggest that
this concept creates a fear: “I’ve seen too many movies set in the future with
everyone walking around in a wetsuit coved with lights. No one is inspired by the
path of least resistance, technology is about giving humans new capacities. I don’t
want technologies that integrate with my body, I want clothing and accessories that

3. makes my body do things and feel things I have never thought I was capable of.” We
are still waiting on this kind of meaningful adaptation. And it begins with
the transformation of the design methodology.
Here are some interesting tech-fashion pieces that I came across:
(Above Image: Bitonti is a fashion engineer printing fashions through a 3D printer.
For the first time in history, he conceived and engineered a 3D dress that can move
like textile.)
Earing MP3:
Credits: Yanko Design

4. Credits: Yanko Design
Designer: Lee Won-jun
This is the most unbelievable 20th century fashion design to date. It’s not yet
commercialized but it will be incredibly popular when it is. This is a bracelet and
earing set, designed by Lee Won-jun, whereby the bracelet emits a wireless
transmission to the earrings – which then plays the music you uploaded to the
bracelet. It’s the first MP3 player as discreet and subtle as this one.

5. Environmentally Responding Outfits:
Credits: CNBC
Designer: Rainbow Winters
Amy Winters developed a line of clothes that respond to their environment. She
explains this as: “experimentally merging technology with fashion, clothes use
interactive textiles which change color and pattern in response to sound, sunlight,
water and stretch. Rainbow Winters represents the cutting edge, experimental,
boundary pushing force of interaction design and technology.”
To illustrate, the dress is made with holographic leather and reacts to sound. As
volume increases, it begins to illuminate and make what Winters describes as “visual
music.” The bathing suit reacts to light, with the center panel turning into purple dots
in the sun. Her designs fuse science and high-fashion to create an absolutely
unbelievable experience.

6. Eye-Tracking Fashion:
Credits: CNBC
Designer: Ying Gao
The dresses feature glow-in-the-dark threads that make the base layer of fabric. And
by using eye-tracking technology, Gao has installed motors that permit the dress to
move when being watched. It literally has a mind of its own!

7. The Synapse Dress:
Credits: FashioningTech
Designer: Anouk Wipprecht
The Synapse Dress is a psychological tool to analyses the reader’s mental state. It is
an experiment between the interior and exterior self. Its embedded with sensors and
actuators which permit it to analyze the wearers mental state. As the dress logs your
mood, and senses you far beyond one set of bio-signals only, the dress can become a
little ecosystem which monitors your attitude, integrating the data from many sensors
to put interaction back in the hands of the wearer, while co-evolving with the system
around your body. The goal: a dress that electronically relates to the wearer’s mood
and attitude as a window to her ‘inner self’.