Tech in Fashion

The news that Burberry chief executive Angela Ahrendts is leaving the luxury goods firm to join technology giant Apple is a sign of things to come, says Sophie Curtis.

The latest statement in 3D printed fashion is another dress, but it’s one of those ‘things’ that make you look, look again and then look some more. At least that’s how it was for me when Vanessa Palsenberg of Materialise tipped me off about the company’s latest collaboration with a high-end fashion designer. Acutally, Anouk Wipprecht is more than a fashion designer, she is a fashiontech designer and an engineer who created the 3D Printed Smoke Dress in collaboration with Italian architect Niccolo Casas, a designer for .MGX.&

Barbara Brownie: 'Concept clothes' are constructed using CGI and are never meant to be made. Is this the ultimate expression of haute couture?

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Sweden's Virtusize, one of a plethora of startups trying to solve the problem of how to “try on” clothes online, is rolling out in Japan via a partnership with Japanese online fashion retailer Magaseek.  As of today, its “Fit Visualiser” solution is available on 20,000 items on Mag..

This summer Protos have designed the perfect summer accessory, 3D sunglasses that are made specifically for the wearers one-of-a-kind face.

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The folks over at HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT have devised an amazing knitted sensor using resistive yarn that can detect the movement and angles of the wrist.

Designers Iris van Herpen and Jolan van der Wiel grew the clothing by manipulating a material made from iron filings mixed into resin.

“So where is wearable technology going?” asked Monisha Perkash, the CEO of LUMO BodyTech (maker of a posture-monitoring waistband), as she stood center stage at last week’s Wearable Tech Conference on the NYU campus. Ms. Perkash answered her own question: “It is becoming integrated into our day-to-day lives,” she said. “It’s going into fabric.” Fellow&

Athletes and chronic heart patients will benefit from this comfortable wireless technology.

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Start-up BevyUp harnesses social networks to recreate the social nature of brick and mortar shopping with e-retailers.

Using video surveillance, and signals from shoppers’ cellphones and apps, retailers are tracking customers’ behavior and moods.

I always work together with an architect, as I am not good with the 3-D programs myself, one designer explains.