technology is ready.to.wear

This children's clothing line designed by Royal College of Art graduate Ryan Mario Yasin has a pleat system that lets garments stretch to fit even after growth spurts. Yasin created Petit Pli after buying clothes for his nephew which no longer fit by the time they turned up. He used his background as an aeronautical engineer to devise a set of permanent folds that let clothes 'unpack' when pulled, as children get bigger.

Specdrums are app-connected rings that turn the world's colors into your own personal sound machine.

A bending mechanism that creates multiple, programmable shape-changing behaviors with inextensible materials, including paper, plastics and fabrics.

Tiffany Trenda is a new media performance artist based out of Los Angeles and New York. Trenda was included in the performance program at the Metamorphoses of the Virtual – 100 Years of Art and Freedom during the 55th annual Venice Biennale. More recently, Trenda lectured at the 3D Printshow in New York, exhibited at the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires, and introduced Ubiquitous States as a special project for Context Art Miami 2015.

MAKING SKIN THE INTERFACE TO THE VIRTUAL WORLD: FEEL THE TRANSITION FROM PHYSICAL TO VIRTUAL, AND EXPERIENCE FULL IMMERSION.

Expressive Wearable explores clothing as a communication tool. This project imagines a scenario in which clothing expresses the wearer’s attitude directly without the concern of adhering to social conventions. More broadly, the project explores how people might playfully use wearables that move and gesture, what the aesthetics of these will be, and how wearables might interact with each other in group situations. This project speaks up in silence, using ambiguity as a guide to explore a seemingly impromptu interaction while delivering a meaningful message accurately and expressively. It provokes social conventions by speculating on the complexity of human psychological behaviors

jamSheets – Thin Interfaces with Tunable Stiffness

Inspired by petals, feathers, and scales, we developed a new textile language for Kinematics where the interconnected elements are articulated as imbricating shells.This dress can be customized to the wearer’s body through a 3D scan, and additionally, each element is now individually customizable: varying in direction, length, and shape.

NECLUMI is the first projection-based interactive necklace. At the current stage the whole setup is based on iPhone running custom app and a picoprojector connected via hdmi cable and attached to the wearers chest. Given the rate of miniaturisation of the picoprojector technology and observing the trend of wearables treated more as jewellery and fashion accessories rather than just gadgets, we predict that wearable projection and projection-based jewellery become a reality in a few years. We’re currently committed to create a standalone version of the project and we’re opened for funding and collaboration. neclumi.com wearableprojection.com pangenerator.com

space dipped shirts 2014.04 "One of the brand’s flagship products, the white shirt, stared in an installation at this year’s Milan Salone. We took an unusual approach for installation’s design: rather than designing the shirts or their hanger racks, we created sculptural pieces that rely on the interplay of shirts and frames." by Nendo

Spring of Life Dress Stylist: Shinichi Miter Dress maker: Toshihiko Sakurai Hardware engineer/designer: Motoi Ishibashi (Rhizomatiks) Wearable device design/development: Tomoaki Yanagisawa (Rhizomatiks)

"Moff band is a wearable smart toy. Everything you do. Everything you hold. Change into toys."

A wearable Input Device that lets you control anything. Gesture control, text transmission, payment, etc... fromLogbar

At London fashion week the multibillion dollar worlds of tech and fashion are colliding like never before. For many, the launch of Apple’s new watch, announced this week with impeccable timing to coincide with the global fashion weeks, will mark an important turning point for fashion tech, a new sector with huge potential for growth. While Apple’s entry into the market is almost guaranteed to boost the industry’s profile, in reality the fashion industry has been driving fashion tech for years. Fashion tech is much more than just tech inside a timepiece, and nowhere is this more apparent than in London. In 2010, London Fashion Week was the first in the world to grant access to the masses by live streaming the runways. What had previously been exclusive and elite became accessible to everyone, all because of technology. The next generation of high tech fashionistas are already emerging. They are incorporating tech into stylish products, realising that for fashion tech to thrive, it has to be about the fashion first. Two rising stars from this growing trend are Kate Unsworth and Roberta Lucca. Unsworth is a former model and mathematician bringing her two worlds together to create Kovert Designs, her own digital agency. Kovert’s first product line is a beautiful riposte to the consistently disappointing world of wearable tech. The early prototypes are gorgeous. Unsworth began her career in the fashion industry, so the aesthetics of her modular jewellery collection are couture-sharp. They promise to enhance rather than complicate your life; pieces can be personalised to alert the wearer only when important contacts or urgent keywords are recognised, so you control your social channels instead of being a slave to them. The tech is fashionable as well as unobtrusive, much as the new Apple Watch promises to be.