Posts under Fashion Category
24Aug
What role will textile design play in the creation of biological products of the future?
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination
I believe biotechnology and biological products will be very important in the future and necessary to develop towards a world which works with, rather than works from the world around it. Amy Congdon’s project ‘Biological Atelier’ has produced some beautiful designs which allow the fashion industry to keep it’s ivory and fur, by growing alternatives. “Biological Atelier considers the changing… Read more »
24Aug
Sonja Bäumel (IN)VISIBLE MEMBRANE
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
Sonja Bäumel has envisioned a world where the skins bacteria can be used to ‘grow’ materials unique and specially formed to the body. Ideally the skin would grow thicker material in the area where it is least hot – the areas which need protecting by clothing the most… “…representing a design language in-between science and fashion design.” Sonja’s invisible project to… Read more »
24Aug
Bone rings exchanged by couples
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
“Using bioglass, a special bioactive ceramic which mimics the structure of bone material, researchers are growing rings made out of the couples’ bone.” BBC Perhaps the process of transposing or transmuting identity or presence into a product can be avoided using this new technique of using BioGlass™ which mimics the bone structure, allowing the bone to grow into the glass…. Read more »
24Aug
Suzanne Lee grows clothes from a mixture of bacteria, yeast and sweetened green tea. “Designed for life by life, this pulsating concoction brings forth fibers that will sprout and propagate, eventually resulting in thin, wet sheets of bacterial cellulose that can be molded into a dress form. What’s left is a canvas that can be bleached or even stained with fruit and… Read more »
23May
I love this holographic fashion show – to me it seems abstract from the normal boring and monotonous fashion shows and add art and movement to fashion. 3D Holographic Fashion Show from Tim Jockel on Vimeo. Via www.fubiz.net
