Remember the guys who did a backwards runway show? The same guys who designed an upside down champaign bottle? Well, this fall, Viktor & Rolf gave us another reason to marvel over their creative deviance.
During Paris fashion week, the Dutch designer duo forwent producing a real fashion show and instead created their own virtual runway [...]
shalom shalom shalom
neck tunes!
Pink?!?! Looks like candy?! Wearable?! OMG, if I were still a teen (sigh), I’d be all over these necklace/MP3 players by INNO Design.
haute projection
Chiming in on the discussion of democratization of fashion shows, Stefano Pilati, creative director at Yves Saint Laurent, chose to show his 2008 Fall/Winter menswear collection as a triptych LCD projection. Featuring Simon Woods, the star of HBO’s Rome, the presentation is captivatingly eery and seamlessly (and unpretentiously) incorporates the clothes as part of its [...]
fashion net
I loved reading this article in New York Magazine’s LOOK issue discussing a commentary written by the NYTimes‘ fashion critic Cathryn Horyn who is bothered by the idea that in this day and age of instant information flow runway shows are still being produced for the eyes of select few.
“Why not let the Internet’s instantaneousness be [...]
wear me out
Here’s another example of wearable technology which interacts with human body and surrounding environment. Just like the Smart Second Skin Dress, these dresses are made from high tech materials enabling sensory interaction and prediction of the wearer’s emotional state. This project is designed as part of Phillips’ initiative, Design Probes, which is dedicated ”‘to track[ing] trends [...]
