If there’s an area of fashion tech that’s on its way toward a slow, rolling boil, it’s independent fashion (a topic near and dear to my heart, one I devoted 7+ years to profiling on the recently-halted SF Indie Fashion, but that’s another story entirely). Given my long-standing interest in that arena and my current [...]
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These light-up dresses are not the product of Vera Wang, as rapid email-scanning at first led me to believe when this news popped up on my radar (a.k.a. gmail inbox), but instead the work of Chinese designer Vega Wang for the Intel- and Vice-backed Creators Project. The collection, dubbed Alpha Lyrae, includes eight dresses with [...]
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High-tech fashion doesn’t just mean style delivered on the screen. It’s also about advanced fabrics that do special things like keep us warm and dry, so much the better if they happen to look like something you’d actually wear outside the woods. A prime example: Uniqlo’s uber-popular Heattech Collection, now available for purchase online thanks [...]
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Though small in stature – there were just five shows, a roster of mostly emerging designers and a Singapore home base decidedly outside of international fashion capitals – the weekend’s Digital Fashion Week managed to score the likes of Andrej Pejic, the beautifully androgynous supermodel, and designer Patricia Field, best known for her work as [...]
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Fashion and technology joined forces in more ways than one during Portland’s recent FASHIONxt runway event. For the fashion showcase held earlier this month, Project Runway alums Seth Aaron and Viktor Luna teamed up to create their Personal Cloud Collection featuring conceptual designs inspired by event sponsor Intel’s NAS (a.k.a. network-attached storage) devices. Created [...]
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Meet Emoki: maker of furry, Burner-friendly headgear that monitors your brainwaves to move according to your current state of mind. Feeling meditative and pensive? Your Emoki ears will droop slightly downward. Surprised? Watch as the ears perk up. And in your brain’s peak state – one full of alpha and beta waves – the ears [...]
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