Michal Luria – Looking Outwards – Women Practitioners

3D printed fashion with sensors / Anouk Wipprecht

The project I will present this week is a project by Anouk Wipprecht. Anouk combines fashion with computation, and uses both new fabrication technologies (laser cutting and 3D printing) and electronics and sensors.

Anouk Wipprecht designing a fashion collection inspired by cars. source

Fashion has been repetitive for quite a long while. Although new trends are introduced each season, they are always adapted from some previous decade. What I like about this project is that Anouk suggests a new way of thinking about fashion and presents a new direction that gives an idea of what fashion of the future might look like, and what it can bring along with it.

Fashion is a way to express ourselves, and why not use extraordinary ways to do so? In her project, Anouk embeds car sensors and lights to create a new type of interaction with a wearable prototype. The dress reacts to the person’s surrounding and to others who approach them. The final prototype resulted in a both a novel way in which people can express themselves, as well as a new way to interact with other people around us, using the wearable technology we own.