Tag: fashion tech
Discussing the Tensions Between Fashion, Technology and Sustainability with Vanessa Friedman
Before meeting Vanessa Friedman, I considered the perspective she could lend on the tension between designers’ ability to create freely and the need to choose sustainable materials. Is there a con... Read More
Click Your Heels To Start The Dishwasher – Smart Trainers vs Traditional Cordwainers
Surrounded by students crafting leather on lasts using traditional methods, Adriana Goldenberg stands alone as the only student on the BA (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear: Design and Product Innovation cou... Read More
Ravensbourne Incubation – A New Age of Fashion and Technology Dawns
Our wearable tech, fashion tech (including smart textiles, wearables and soft robotics) and smart cities future is something I spend a great deal of time thinking about. How will fashion designers i... Read More
Wired 2016 Presents What’s New in AI, VR and Tech Activism
Despite an absence of fashion tech at Wired 2016, the annual conference (too dull a word for the excitement served up) demonstrates fashions in tech, of a sort. It’s that time of the year pre-ch... Read More
Plexal is set to be Europe’s Beating Heart of Health, Sport, Fashion and Tech Innovation
News to lift the Brexit blues. Plexal, Entiq’s new venture at Here East is a shining beacon of not just the future of tech businesses in London, but a coming together of arts, design, culture,... Read More
Fyodor Golan’s 3D Simulated Fashion Presentation Heralds The Symbiosis of Fashion Design and Tech
These are some of the words I frantically tapped into my iPhone notes during Fyodor Golan’s stunning London Fashion Week presentation: ‘tender, ferocious, glitchy, primal, diverse’. ... Read More
Fashion Tech and Speculative Wearables in Imminent Space Travel
A recent visit to Ravensbourne has catalysed a shift in my opinion of ‘fashion tech’ as a discipline and led to an animated discussion around the reasons for the aesthetic gulf between f... Read More
The Athletic-Tech Garment Making the Virtual Real : Introducing Skinterface
We are fully versed in the realm of our physical world and increasingly dipping into the virtual world through virtual reality experiences, but what of the space in between? What of the transition r... Read More