Pauline van Dongen's "Ruff" is a 3D-Printed Collar With a Life of Its Own Ruff is a new 3D printed responsive collar by Pauline van Dongen, who is pushing the forefront of wearables. Working with architect Behnaz Farahi, the two crafted flexible wearables that can move on their own with the help of nitinol and a small electric signal. Inspired by historic fashions of ruffled collars from 16th and 17th centuries, this 3D printed wearable is a look into how fashion can help us interact through movement. Pauline van Dongen has completed a number of intriguing wearable technology projects in recent times including Vigour, a smart cardigan for those advancing in age, and she recently unveiled a chic solar panel shirt to charge your phone. RELATED | Pauline van Dongen’s “Solar Shirt” is a Chic Phone Charger You Wear Ruff is a responsive collar designed by van Dongen and Farahi earlier this year in Las Angeles with the support of 3D Systems’ printing facilities at Will.i.am’s studioCrafting Wearables, USC Cinema School. + Ruff + Pauline van Dongen [Via Popular Science]
What We Do — FashTech FashTech® aims to drive creative partnerships between fashion and technology start-ups and provide a platform for the latest innovations to be showcased to leading brands and retailers. Since February 2014, we began revolutionizing the fashion technology world; one event at a time. First London, then spreading to San Francisco, and now our latest project - FashTech NYC which launched this September. With over 10,000 members in the FashTech community, with interests spanning from wearable technology, to e-commerce and even 3D body scanning: 2014 was an interesting year for fashion tech with 2015 looking to be bigger and better! We aim to provide a platform for startups and leverage creative partnerships for fashion tech creativity, with our guests at the events ranging from start-ups, investors and of course fashion tech fanatics. No matter how big or small the company, anyone can showcase at the events. Be part of it... click here
Metail News | Brooke Roberts Sarah Simpson is a lawyer focused on technology at Taylor Vinters, London. It was while presenting at the inaugural FashTech conference in London that we happened to meet this incredible woman. Having taken a great interest in Brooke's presentation, Sarah met Brooke after the event. Since then she has become our go to person for all things legal within the creative and technology realms. Always professional and open minded, she has become an invaluable member of the team and we were overjoyed when she agreed to not only star in a photo shoot at the Taylor Vinters office at Tower 42, but also agreed to be interviewed for our blog. We met up with Sarah at Tower 42 in London for the shoot and styled Sarah in our Maurits dress. BROOKE ROBERTS: WHAT GOT YOU INTERESTED IN YOUR FIELD OF WORK? BR: WAS YOUR CAREER PATH A STRAIGHT LINE OR MORE OF A WANDERING TRAIL? BR: WHAT DREW YOU TO THE INDUSTRY, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY, WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BECOME IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY?
Seamless | FabTextiles Seamless: Digital Fabrication jacket uses a variety of digital and analog tools. With the use of digital computing and fabrication methods we are able to rapidly prototype and assemble new designs. You can use any 2D or 3D software to create patterns ready for cutting. The machines allow a us a wide range of possibilities, so try to take advantage of the accuracy, precision, and repetitions these machines can achieve. If you don’t have them, these tools can be found at your local Fab Lab, tech shop, or digital fabrication laboratory (if you don’t have them at home, and aside from the laser cutter, you probably will) book a time slot for fabrication with your local fablab or tech shop. Recomended Tools & Materials: Sewing Machine, Needle & Thread, Laser Cutter, Fabric (3meters), Pattern Digital Tooling: Find your pattern. Small scale! Rescale your model and fit your pieces within the constraints of the material as well as the laser cut and send your file. Laser cut
KOBAKANT HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT Welcome to the KOBAKANT DIY Wearable Technology Documentation Workshops least likely scenario This workshop is part of a course at the Ernst Busch Hochschule in Berlin. Workshops soft sensors for soft bodies FURTHER_READING_WATCHING_LISTENING_ Elektronische Textilien als Material und Werkzeug_ Hannah Perner-Wilson, Irene Posch, 2020 “Welche Fasern leiten Strom? Workshops connecting bubbles This semester, we are sitting in a strange bubble at home. Sensors 6 really wearable sensors The textile sensors on our website are often not designed to be manipulated with your hands. Workshops soft interactive technologies This workshop is a part of a course at the Art Academy Weissensee Berlin. Workshops ETextile Adventures This workshop is part of a course at the Ernst Busch Hochschule in Berlin. Sensors Sole Sensing Rather simple way of making insoles with 3 pressure sensors located at different pressure points of the foot on the ground. Actuators Vibe Modules Workshops from SPACE to SPACE with NO SCREENS? Power
What is Fashion Tech? | Third Wave Fashion There’s no doubt about it: the fashion tech space has exploded. It has, by my count, 595 billion google search results, seven dedicated meetup groups with thousands of attendees, a half dozen conferences, and a dedicated startup accelerator. Further, we at Third Wave Fashion, track over 500 fashion tech startups in our own database. This space is big and expanding fast. But it’s not quite that simple. Here at Third Wave Fashion, we use a three-legged stool analogy. In 2010, when we came into existence as a company, we still spoke about things like big data and complex algorithms referring to them as cutting edge technologies. It’s important to note that we’re not talking about wearable tech here. Fashion tech startups exist online, but many of them combine offline elements as well. Fashion tech startups are blowing away the traditional relationships between consumers and brands. Fashion tech startups are erasing the line between brands and publishers. What is fashion tech? She continues,
Display - d-torso Paper craft by Aki Co.,Ltd. The d-torso Mini ADAM & EVE Towers are constructible cardboard craft models made of precision laser-cut parts. The d-torso EVE is made of 123 pieces, and ADAM of 128. With no glue or scissors required for assembly, the models are designed for everyone’s building enjoyment. The d-torso was originally invented by Yuki Matsuoka in 1998 to support his wife’s exhibition of knitwear, and the human shape has been its driving theme ever since. The d-torso does not have outer surfaces or skin. The d-torso Mini ADAM & EVE Towers are miniature versions of the original EVE Tower & ADAM Tower.
The Plant Shoe | Official Native Shoes™ Store Native Shoes plants the seed for a new frontier in footwear design with a limited-edition ground-breaking, 100% sustainable, biodegradable plant-based shoe. The Plant Shoe sets the bar as the absolute first of its kind on the planet. When it comes down to Earth, materials matter immensely. That’s why The Plant Shoe is 100% Earth friendly, entirely produced from ingredients that are completely biodegradable, commercially compostable and absolutely animal-free. Sourced in the Philippines, pineapple husks are saved from being discarded waste and instead transformed into an ultra-sustainable textile. One of the oldest and most veritable natural materials used in the world. Originating from Africa, Kenaf is an exceptional, long staple fibre that needs no chemical intervention in its processing. Eucalyptus pulp is baled and compressed using a closed loop technique, processed with next to zero effect on its surrounding environment. Transformative and multi-functional.
Offcut One - Isabel Fletcher Offcut One Offcut One is a celebration of discarded materials, translated into a clothing collection. Isabel Fletcher has used a variety of British wool, hemp, linen and bamboo, as well as making bespoke buttons from Parblex by Chip[S]Board. Using these sustainable and organic materials, the collection explores colours and bold shapes seen in the layering of waste materials in a workshop. MaterialsBritish Wool, Hemp, Linen, Bamboo, Parblex Date of ProductionApril 2018 The ethos of this project is to make people see offcuts not as waste, but as potential for further design. Studio Isabel Fletcher believes we have to aim to maximize the materials we use in order to do justice to where they came from.