Amazones

Thierry Le Goues made this beautiful pictures. The subject is Amazones. The designs are made by Paco Rabanne

Louis Vuittorned

Students from the Parson’s School of Fashion slashed up samples from Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection in order to reconstruct them into wearable art.

jasper Huang

The schi-fi mermaids are a mix of fantasy and the future.

automatic folding

Planetary Platonic Fashion

Designed by Sarajevo-based designer Amila Hrustic, Plato’s Collection is “a set of delicate handmade dresses, each one exploring the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron or icosahedron,” according to Core 77. Each garment was made out of paper by hand.

Vincent Bakkum

issey miyake

Issey Mikake" is Miyake's latest innovation that explores novel fashion manufacturing methods using emerging technologies. he project is a collaboration between Miyake's lab and Japanese computer Scientist Jun Mitani, who developed software that allowed him to construct three-dimensional origami forms from a single sheet of paper.

M2

New York studio Milev Architects have designed this range of jewellery and clothing made from rubber bands.

prostheses art

The Katarzyna Konieczka ‘Very Twisted Kingdom’ 2010 collection takes inspiration from the life and condition of Joseph Merrick—more commonly known as the Elephant Man. With cues from orthodontic and medical prostheses, this collection—and one design in particular—is dark and haunting.

biosenthese

imagine a fabric that grows...a garment that forms itself without a single stitch!

The fashion that starts with a bottle of wine...

Micro'be' fermented fashion investigates the practical and cultural biosynthesis of clothing - to explore the possible forms and cultural implications of futuristic dress-making and textile technologies.

Instead of lifeless weaving machines producing the textile, living microbes will ferment a garment.

A fermented garment will not only rupture the meaning of traditional interactions with body and clothing; but also raise questions around the contentious nature of the living materials themselves.

This project redefines the production of woven materials.

By combining art and science knowledge and with a little inventiveness, the ultimate goal will be to produce a bacterial fermented seamless garment that forms without a single stitch.

http://bioalloy.org/projects/micro-be.html

Spray-on clothing

cotton fibers in a bottle. That's just great! You can get it in all different colours. You can wash it after your worn it en wear it again. Unbelievable!

Designer Jiri Evenhuis, in collaboration with Janne Kyttanen of Freedom of Creation, was the first to toy with the idea of using 3D printers to create textiles. “Instead of producing textiles by the meter, then cutting and sewing them into final products, this concept has the ability to make needle and thread obsolete,” Evenhuis has said.

A decade later, designer-researchers like Freedom of Creation in Amsterdam and Philip Delamore at the London College of Fashion are cranking out seamless, flexible textile structures using software that converts three-dimensional body data into skin-conforming fabric structures. The potential for bespoke clothing, tailored to the specific individual, are as abundant as the patterns that can be created, from interlocking Mobius motifs to tightly woven meshes.

HOW TO: 3D origami diamond-patterned swan

from 2D to 3D. Amazing how the build a swan with a origami structure. They don't even use glue.

picture on denim

With this IDI laser they can print a picture on denim.

3D Laser Etching Textiles

The most precised way to modify fabrics. This way it is easy to add a logo on the textile.

Francesca Lanzavecchia

Al those braces are beautyfull. She really add an extra layer to them. It's very interesting to see how the material works with the body. Amazing!

Folklore

Manish Arora

Manoush Arora is an Indian fashion designer. I love this colourfull design! This is the S/S 2011 runway show.

When I look at the dress it seems to me it is the anatomy of the hyman body. It looks like bones to me. But then much prettier with all the gold and the funky colours.

Playtime w/ Frieder in Berlin

I love this interactive software...

Anouk Wipprecht talks about Pseudomorphs

A great concept that really works!

As part of a Summer Lab at V2 – an interdisciplinary institute for art, and media technology in Rotterdam – fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht created a dress that can be customized to the wearer’s liking. Thanks to a system of valves and pumps attached to a neckpiece, ink flows over the dress creating a kind of bleeding effect.

Nitinol wire (shape memory)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nickel titanium, also known as nitinol, is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal amounts.

Nitinol alloys exhibit two closely related and unique properties: shape memory and superelasticity (also called pseudoelasticity). Shape memory refers to the ability of Nitinol to undergo deformation at one temperature, then recover its original, undeformed shape upon heating above its "transformation temperature". Superelasticity occurs at a narrow temperature range just above its transformation temperature; in this case, no heating is necessary to cause the undeformed shape to recover, and the material exhibits enormous elasticity, some 10-30 times that of ordinary metal.

Nitinol's extraordinary ability to accommodate large strains, coupled with its physiological and chemical compatibility with the human body have made it one of the most commonly used materials in medical device engineering and design.