photovoltaic fashion from Greece

● At this point of time we have all the knowledge we need to 'dominate' earth's resources and maintain them in order to live well, innovate and step forword to certain new needs that occur. Every place in this world has its advantages and disadvantages. I grew up in Greece and here i still am, there is so potential to its recources. We have planty of sun, wind, waves that could produce limitless power and i was glad to find out about a a greek designer who throught of it.

http://www.5050ltd.com/who_we_are.php

Despina Papadopoulos

Studio 5050 was founded in the summer of 1995 by Despina Papadopoulos. The studios mission is to strech the boundaries of fashion, design, technology, art and ideas, and to engage in an open dialogue between these disciplines. Studio 5050 was featured in I.D.'s 40 January 2007 Issue, 'Celebrating Collective', as one of the world's most interesting and promising collectives.!
Despina created a series of 'philosophy machines' experiments in design and technology which probe the relationship between magic, technology and fashion.

Day-for-Night Solar Dress

an homage to Paco Rabbane is a celebration of beauty of electronics.! It is a modular and reconfigurable dress that is made out of 448 white curcuit boards. Each tile is designed to be a solar cell, a RGB LED and jumper connectiors. Acontrol board provides power, communicates with the tiles and links to a computer via RF. A microcontroller relays data to and from the dress via a 2.4 GHz RF link.  A m a z i n g . . . . . .

Could this really be a cocktail dress you wear for a night out with the girls in the near future?
The conclusions are yours... ;)

a Virtual Catwalk

a collaboration that couldn't go wrong...  

nicola formichetti.
creative director of Mugler, fashion director of Vogue Hommes Japan, Uniqlo and Lady Gaga. He sure shakes well every fashionista's imagination. Along with the multiplayer game company CCP, they created a bridge between the gap of fashion and digital world. Together, through the process of designing clothes for Mugler's model Rick Genest, they created an interactive life size avatar on a real-time virtual catwalk! A huge innovation that brings technology and fashion into the same body for once again.


http://www.narvicreative.com/35299/322884/works/nicola-formichetti-x-ccp



nicola formichetti's interview about the zombie boy concept:

Dazed Digital: How did you hook up with CCP?
Nicola Formichetti: A mutual friend introduced me to Mary Lee, CCP's digital fashion editor, and we began this collaboration. Our first collaboration was to create a life size avatar with clothes designed by me for my pop up store Nicola's during New York Fashion Week.

DD: Can you explain the technology behind this project for us novices...
Nicola Formichetti: We call it 'sophisticated technology'. Through the use of CCP's Carbon technology graphics, the virtual runway became a fully interactive, real-time virtual catwalk experience.

DD: What was the biggest technological challenge when making this film?
Nicola Formichetti: Nothing really. I was working with tech teams in Iceland, China and New York. Like how I work normally. Everyone was such a professional actually, we all used our own skills, there really wasn't much of a challenge.

DD: How is designing for an avatar different from a real life model?
Nicola Formichetti: When doing digital design you have more options to work with, you can change the designs on the spot rather then being limited by fabric and patterns, digital fashion gives you unlimited options immediately.

DD: What's the relationship between fashion and technology today?
Nicola Formichetti: The two worlds are just now beginning to come together and as we continue to push the boundaries, just like this virtual project, we will continue to explore what is possible and where fashion and technology will continue to merge. It's exciting!

DD: And tomorrow?
Nicola Formichetti: Fashion and technology will become one, virtual fashion will become a core part of the fashion industry.

DD: What was the inspiration behind the particular items Rick wears?
Nicola Formichetti: EVE is a serious game, I was inspired by the toughness of the the environment and the reality one would wear in CCP's future universe.

DD: What's next for you?
Nicola Formichetti: To continue to pursue digital fashion and all forms of technology that is emerging in the world. 

http://rrriot-girl.blogspot.com/2010/01/art-of-artificial-intelligence.html

   

As I mentioned before, my project, KinetiCouture, is for a class for my final BA degree, called Design Futures. This blog showcases my research development, something like a "public sketchbook". 

Kinetic Couture is a concept I created as a hypothesis, that electronic garments can highlight the interactive nature of the clothing and capture the imagination on the future meaning and purpose of clothing. 

My basic inspiration came when i learned about the Scorpions by XS Labs in Montreal. I found Di Mainstone's interview, artist and inventor who works with interactive clothing, very positive to my case.

"This said, interactive fashion is certainly getting increased industry profile - established investigative fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has tickled the imagination of the fashion world over the past seasons with his electronic couture experiments, whilst newcomer Angel Chang is designing technology driven fashion as the basis of her range. With this gradual and inevitable evolution, both the fashion industry and the consumer need to be allowed to fully absorb the meaning and possibilities of electronic and interactive fashion. Collections will not only have to be exhibited with fresh vision, to highlight the interactive nature of the clothing, but also be manufactured in an entirely modern way. Because of potential production issues it may be a year ors two before we see intricate electronic fashion in outlets such as UrbanOutfitters and Topshop, however I feel certain that the consumer is ready to accept new modes of fashion interactivity, with or without electronics."  click to read the interview