Looking Outwards-09

One work I found really inspirational this week is Anouk Wipprecht’s fashion design. She focuses on “Fashion-Tech”, which is a combination of fashion design with engineering and computational technology. And one interesting point about her work is that fashion is not only providing a visual and tactile experience to people, her work embedded artificial intelligence and projected as a ‘host’ system on the human body. Her design has body sensors that check the user’s stress levels and comfort levels.

I specifically admire her “Spider Dress” design. This project successfully connects the human body with technology. Some part of the collar extrudes out just like a spider, and the body part design uses plastic as materials, creating a futuristic weave pattern that cannot be achieved by traditional fashion techniques. Besides, there are sensors and moveable arms to create a boundary of personal space. These embedded sensors might play an important role in future technology development, creating an exciting transformation in how people communicate with others and with the environment.

link to her website: http://www.anoukwipprecht.nl/#intro-1