TREND REPORT
AS PART OF A REPORT FOR PREMIERE VISION
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THIS TREND REPORT EXAMINES THE ENTWINED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND FASHION. IT EXPLORES THE EFFECTS OF THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY ON FASHION AS A DRIVING FORCE INFLUENCING STYLE, PRODUCTION, AND AS A TOOL FOR EXTENDING THE HUMAN SELF.
Photography from Lucy McRae show
BODY ARCHITECTURE TRANSHUMANISM The belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology. Oxford dictionary
Lucy McRae calls herself a body architect. artist as much as the scientist to explore evolve with augmentation technologies. She to convey a mood and skin that perspires a
She considers it the responsibility of the the potential ways that the human body might is the creative mind behind clothes that glow fragrance swallowed in a pill.
Photography from Lucy McRae show
BLURRED LINES it has been argued that there is no such thing human being. We are already in the age of cyborgs. We escape into our digital environments. They are an extension if not a replacement of us as human begins. Fashion has always had a fascination with fantasy and escapism. Who we can be and become and how we evolve. The lines that divide these worlds of science fashion and person are blurring and perhaps disappearing.
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Bubelle by Lucy McRae for Philips 2006
The Smart Second Skin Dress by Jenny Tillotson
Scented chemicals flow through the veins of the dress and emits a scent depending on the wearer’s mood.
SHAPE MEMORY MATERIALS CHAMELEONIC TEXTILES HEAT STORAGE TEXTILES SELF CLEANING CLOTHES DATA WEAR WEARABLE COMPUTERS EMOTION CLOTHES (CAN ASSESS THE WEARERS MOOD) REACTIVE TEXTILES
As part of a general shift of smart textile development from intelligent to sensitive, Philip’s skin dress senses and even predicts the emotional state of the wearer. The dresses use “emotive technology,” displaying pattern and colour changes that identify shifts in the emotional status of the wearer. The emotions are sensed through the skin via a phenomenon called intra body signalling. Philips developed the “soft technology” as a research and development project to explore the potential uses of skin and emotional sensing electronic textiles. –Sass Brown “Already fashion is highly technical. Actions and reactions take place between you and your clothes all the time, we’re just making it happen before your eyes... if i were to make pieces that change colours and light up, with mp3 players and cell phones attached it would be too much, it’s important to start soft and build up. Just so people don’t get freaked out.” Sonali Sridhar Said in an interview with Vogue tech-tiles 2007
Iris Van Herpen
Iris Van Herpens inaugural 3D-printed range, Crystallization, was the first-ever catwalk collection to feature 3D printing. This collaboration with London-based architect Daniel Widrig was launched in 2010 and produced a series of dramatic, sculptural pieces that were closer to body armour than clothing.
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Kang Hyea for Vogue
Hussein Chalayan SS 10
Akris ss20
DE PERSONALISING DETACHED PRIVACY PROTECTION SECURITY SAFETY VOYEURISM BEHIND A SCREEN
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Gareth Pugh a/w 14/15
Hussein Chalayan’s ‘Aeroplanes’
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Alba Prat 2012 INSPIRED BY THE 1982 CULT FILM TRON. BASED IN TWO PARALLEL PLACES THE REAL AND THE VIRTUAL.
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Yuki Hagino
“FASHION IS ARCHITECTURE: IT IS A MATTER OF PROPORTIONS” COCO CHANEL.
LIFE THAN Alvaro Villarrubia
Irina Shaposhnikova
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Alvaro Villarrubia
Iris Van Herpen Alvaro Villarrubia
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If the future, as we’ve stereotyped it, resembles robots and cyborgs, and some designers (Hussein Chalayan and Balenciaga’s Nicolas GhesquiEre) did that last season, what comes next? The future of future fashion has yet to be decided, but the fabric of our lives already seems a far cry from cotton. Jane Herman, Fashion writer, Vogue 2007 tech-tiles