News to know from the intersection of fashion, style, shopping and technology… Refinery29 launches Beauty Nation, devoted to schooling readers on the latest and greatest from the beauty realm with the help of popular beauty bloggers and experts. I feel prettier already. via Refinery29 Boston-based Fashion Project grabs $1.8M in funding for its feel good [...]
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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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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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The recent Studio64 fashion and tech mixer by SF Fashion + Tech brought together a slew of established companies and startups in the fashion tech arena and hinted at what we can look forward to in the domain of fashion tech for 2013. While there were many tables filled with enthusiastic founders and curious visitors, [...]
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This illuminated dress, designed by Alison Lewis for Agent of Presence and spotted at the recent Studio64 fashion tech showcase in San Francisco, will light up your heart, literally. It looks like a complete garment, but the functional part is actually a slip that can be worn underneath other dressed. Outfitted with 24 LED lights made with [...]
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