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Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch-based fashion tech designer who works in the emerging field of electronic wearable installation, a combination of visual designs and interactive technology. Her project “Spider” employs microcontroller such as sensors and moveable joints to make the garments move and breathe with the wearer’s actions. Wipprecht researches on how machine learning and biomimicry are able to manipulate the texture and the function of daily outfits. By partnering up with tech companies such as INTEL, Autodesk and Audi, she fuse futuristic concepts into high fashion and evoke the audience senses towards their surroundings. In the project, she extracts the parking sensors from Audi cars to put on the clothes with geometric design elements, putting more focus on shape, look and feel of things into mechanical object while empowering the wearer with its functionality.

Artist Website: http://www.anoukwipprecht.nl/about-me-shift#bio