In continuation of London Fashion Week's Films, Fraying and Frizz, the second instalment of my fashion week roundup starts at with Belstaff, in collaboration with (an elusive) Liv Tyler. The Belstaff presentation could scarcely have…
Click Your Heels To Start The Dishwasher –…
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 course grappling with textiles and tech to…
Ravensbourne Incubation – A New Age of Fashion…
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 influence the wearable tech…
Wired 2016 Presents What’s New in AI, VR…
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-christmas…
Plexal is set to be Europe’s Beating Heart…
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,…
Fyodor Golan’s 3D Simulated Fashion Presentation Heralds The…
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'. The words hit me in digital waves, a helpful…
Fashion Tech and Speculative Wearables in Imminent Space…
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 fashion design and technology. The…
The Athletic-Tech Garment Making the Virtual Real :…
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 realm -…
Fashion mannequins transformed through 3D printing
To chat to Paul Sohi is to geek out over all things 3D printed. He takes me on a journey from 3D printed mannequins (the subject of his PhD) to a new polycarbonate composite prosthetic…