Hussein Chalayan has often been dubbed fashion's resident mad scientist, and the British designer's avant-garde creations continually push the boundaries of what the human body can wear. One season he devises a coffee table that transforms into a wooden skirt, while another season he creates an entire collection from the sturdy envelope paper known as Tyvek. (Björk donned a jacket in said material for the cover of her album Post). 

Still, as Style.com's Sarah Mower notes, Chalayan has "demonstrated that he's reached the stage of maturity where his ability to articulate significant symbolism only enhances, rather than obscures, the excitement of his abilities as a fashion designer."

Chalayan's most accomplished technological achievement to date was on display during his Spring 2007 show in Paris. Collaborating with the animatronic design team that worked on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he took his audience on a lightning-speed journey through style history, configuring "robodresses" that morphed in seconds from a Victorian gown to a crystal-beaded flapper dress or from an hourglass metallic shift with a broad- brimmed hat to a Paco Rabanne confection complete with a cap and visor. For the grand finale, a ballerina dress was absorbed by an enormous hat that then spouted a puff of sparkling dust. 

"In a season when the future of fashion was being furiously debated," wrote Vogue of the spectacle, "this was more than a decisive moment. It was magic."

Ready-to-Wear Collection Fall 2007, Paris Fashion Week

(source: www.style.com)

The blue striped was my favorite.!

(source: www.antimonide.com/2009/01/31/hussein-chalayan/)

Hussein Chalayan is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitudes to new technology, and the Design Museum in London will be having a retrospective of his work. Leading the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named ‘British Designer of the Year,’ Hussein Chalayan, is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitudes to new technology.

The exhibition was the first comprehensive presentation of Hussein Chalayan’s work in the UK. Spanning fifteen years of experimental projects, the exhibition explores Hussein Chalayan’s creative approach, his inspirations and the many themes which influence his work such as cultural identity, displacement and migration.

memories and emotions through wearable technology

WEARABLEABSENSE

would you like your clothing to be able to adjust your moods?

There are some new prototype clothes with wearable device embedded in the clothes will be able to read your moods through bio-sensors, and react accordingly.

Through the use of wireless technology and bio-sensors, users of the garment are able to retriece archived information from an 'absent' person's live via a mobile application.

photo by http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/new-smart-clothes-will-be-able-to-adjust-to-your-moods/

This jacket responds directly to your preferences and attempt to help your mood with messeges could include audio files played through speakers sewn into the clothing, text, photographs or videos displayed by a scrollig LED array woven into the fabric.


-The project was a collaboration between Barbara Layne, the Director of Studio subTela at Hexagram-Concordia in Montreal and Janis Jefferies, Artistic Director of the Digital Studios at Goldsmiths College in London.

made in Greece

When your country has so huge problems that everyone is talking about, it is natural to affect you in many aspects. I'm sick of hearing bad news all the time about our economic, politic and social crisis plus; i'm tired of seeing people being pessimistic even about the little things.

I believe from every obstacle, there is something possitive to learn. My moto is "everything happens for a reason".So in order to overcome our problems, as a society, we have to revise our tensions, act smart and innovate to prevent our future problems.

While the economic crisis has shaken the Greek society, researchers from the Laboratory of AUTH and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, create organic electronics (ie, flexible material with energy efficiency of polymer) made in Greece.

The goal is to provide the raw material from greek hands to get a low cost in mass production of a range of innovative products as new technology: tent panels saving solar energy, handbags and clothing that will charge electrical devices, photovoltaic smart new-generation that are cheaper and more efficient, electronic paper, flexible displays for all types of devices and literally hundreds of other products.

The RoleMak program (Reinforce Organic Electronics Research Potential in Central Makedonia) is worth 2.74 million funded 100% by the European Union, provides all this and more importantly to set up small production units of flexible materials to be manufactured cheaply in Greece and exported as finished products such as jacket with printed electronics which will keep the body warm, or new-generation photovoltaics that will be cheaper and more efficient, or as feedstock to produce massive screens, electronics, etc.

"Organic electronics will change the way we communicate in the coming period.This is a technology that we know and we can exploit. It is estimated that the past year the market of organic electronics has brought gains 1 billion and by 2016 will bring 25 billion, "explains the director of Nanotechnology Laboratory of the Aristotle University, Professor Stergios Logothetidis.

source: http://logothetidis.wordpress.com/