Yoshi Torralva – Looking Outwards – 11

Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch fashion designer that is at the forefront of exploring the intersection between human-centered technology and couture. Through her practice as a fashion designer, she creates designs that are both reactive to the wearer’s personal and external environments. In this looking outwards blog post, I will be focusing on the Spider Dress. The spider dress is made out of 3D printed parts, motors, sensors, and an Intel Edison. Through these methods, the dress is reactive to people that approach the wearer. Depending on the external figure’s speed and the wearer’s data, the spider’s legs will jolt out fast or slow, depending on the situation. I admire how her designs push fashion in the direction of becoming reactive pieces of clothing that take their own personality and heighten the wearer’s own as well.