High-tech underwear? Apparently, yes, technology may soon be going undercover and, well, getting involved with your undergarments. I’ll admit, I did think this was a joke when this guy told me about Thinx, women’s underwear made of a high-tech textile that controls moisture, stops leaks and happens to be anti-microbial to boot. Part of it [...]
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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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When is a wet shoe actually a go-ahead-tromp-across-the-living-room-rug dry shoe? Possible answer: only in the kind of mundane sort of dream you’d have after meeting your interior decorator on the way to your average rock-hopping river adventure. A better answer: whenever you happen to be wearing a pair of Teva Fuse-ion shoes. A recent example [...]
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High-tech style needn’t involve kitschy LED lights nor now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t gimmicks. Case in point: Portland, Ore. designer Hillary Day, whose outerwear collection offers clean, sophisticated silhouettes ranging from a modern trench to a belted wrap coat ready for day wear or black tie. But Day’s line is made to withstand the elements in a way [...]
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