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Fluid Dress

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The Fluid Dress was designed by Minneapolis artist Charlie Bucket.  This highly inventive and unconventional piece of garment was constructed with 600 feet of knitted tubing.  In order to keep the juices flowing, the wearer must strap on a rather hefty backpack contraption; the backpack houses a pump that pushes the neon-enhanced fluid into the dress’ tubing.  Bucket acknowledges that the Fluid Dress is a “ridiculous clothing experiment”, but it nevertheless makes for intriguing wearable art.  Head over to his Flickr page to see some construction images.

[Via CasualProfanity; BoingBoing]

M-Dress intuitively packs a cell phone in its seams

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“Simplicity is elegance” is the theme of the forward-thinking M-Dress (or Mobile Phone Dress) from CuteCircuit.  It is a silk jersey dress that doubles as a cell phone.

The M-Dress was designed after our research showed that very often phone calls are missed because mobile phones are quite awkward to carry, especially for women, that have garments with small or no pockets.To allow women to stay connected while remaining stylish, CuteCircuit designed the M- Dress. A mobile phone in its own right but built out of soft circuitry.

A SIM card is inserted into a tiny slot located behind the dress’ label.  The antenna resides in the dress hem.  The dress uses “special gesture recognition” to answer a phone call; simply raise your hand to your ear and the call picks up and drop your hand to your side to tell the built-in sensor to end the call.  It’s that simple, really.  “It doesn’t make you look completely crazy like the Bluetooth-earpiece people,” says designer Francesca Rosella.  “You don’t have anything in your hand, but you at least look like you might be holding a phone.”  True dat.  Since there is no user interface or dial pad, the dress can only be programmed to call one number.  It can, however, receive calls from anyone.  “It’s not meant to wear every day, Rosella explains.  “It’s for a special evening when you don’t want to be bothered carrying all of your plastic boxes.”

The M-Dress is coming “soon” and a price point has yet to be disclosed.

[Via Gizmodo; CuteCircuit; TheStar]

Dress made of recycled VHS tapes

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Designer Scianca thought long and hard about the right kind of material to use in creating a new dress.  Her eureka moment told her: recycled VHS tapes.  And you know what?  I think it looks downright sexy.  I’m just stuck wondering what movies/home videos she’s wearing.  Look after the break for an additional shot.

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Glowy dress monitors pollution in the air

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Climate Dress.  Designed by Diffus.

The inclusion of an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor, a carbon dioxide detector, and LED lights make this dress, well, very unique.  Stitched together using conductive embroidery, the LEDs are connected to the CO2 detector and light up when the dress interacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  Glowing patterns range from “slow pulses to rapid flashes” depending on how much CO2 is detected.  Diffus representatives: It generate awareness of environmental issues through an “aesthetic representation of environmental data.”  I’ll say.

[Via Engadget; ecouterre]

Dress made of 24,000 LED lights

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Designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz of CuteCircuit.

The GalaxyDress provides a spectacular and mesmerizing effect being embroidered with 24000 color LEDs, it is the largest wearable display in the world. Constructed using the smallest full-color LEDs that are flat like paper and measuring only 2 by 2 mm.

Says the duo: “The circuits are extra-thin, flexible and hand-embroidered on a layer of silk in a way that gives it stretch so the LED fabric can move like normal fabric with lightness and fluidity.”  They add that the dress uses the same amount of electricity as two household bulbs.

[Via Gizmodo; Wired; YouTube]

Lady Gaga at the VMAs invokes nightmares

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Sweet baby Jesus.  I totally respect Lady Gaga’s fashion style and how she is trying to push the envelope when it comes to fashion sense.  But I’m sorry–this is fashion non-sense.  I thought her bloody performance of “Paparazzi” was good, and her outfit for that was fitting.  However, each wardrobe change during the course of the show was horrifying.  When she accepted her Moon Man award wearing that red dress and started talking with her face covered up I knew I would have nightmares that evening.  Thankfully she removed the face mask and revealed herself halfway through her speech.  Check out the gallery below for more of Gaga’s wardrobe malfunctions.  The last dress in particular, the one that featured the white wreath/porcupine around her head, was just slightly less scary but equally as strange.

[Via HuffingtonPost]