Lasercutter Swimwear

Lemonbow Swimwear is a project by Ellis Droog and Romy van den Broek.  The entire swimwear line is created without a thread and needle using production techniques including laser cutting and 3d prototyping.

PSFK reported on a 3D-Printed Bikini hitting the market developed by  Continuum Fashion and Shapeways.


See here: http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/3d-printed-bikini-is-ready-to-wear.html

Growing clothing

BioCouture is the experimental fashion collaboration between Suzanne Lee, author of Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow's Wardrobe, and Dr. David Hepworth, a biologist and materials scientist.  Together they are literally growing new material out of a Kombucha based brew fermented in bathtubs.  During the fermentation process, bacteria feeds on sugar added to the mix then spin fibers of cellulose.  A thick layer of cellulose is harvested, dried, and treated.  The result is a textile similar to vegetable leather.

BioCouture has been shown in Trash Fashion: designing out of waste at the Antenna Science Museum and at the Modemuseum Hasselt in the exhibition, Alter Nature: The Future that Never Was.

Suzanne talks about growing clothing on Ted.com.

All of this reminds me of Martin Margiela's exhibition (9/4/1615)

Experimental Garment Stop Motion Animation

Photographer: Chris Nightengale

Garment: Fig.1

Model: Kimberly

Installation: to be projected

Opening shot:  black

Kimberly crawls into frame.

Crawls to middle of frame.

Lays on her side in fetal position, with hands folded under head.

Fidgets legs a little (extends right, then switches to left)

Flips to other side (same thing, fidgets)

garment enters frame

moves across frame towards Kimberly

starts to move its way up her legs

then it snuggles like a blanket and she gets cozy

the piece begins to move upward covering her head eventually enveloping her head in a big mass.

she struggles with it a little

then scoots around a bit as if she's cant move her head and just her body.

it starts to unravel and begins to form something else...text?

Kaat Debo in support of Fashion Research

http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c76e453ef0133f40c4137970b

Rules for Engagement in Garment Deconstruction Experiment No. 1

1. deconstruct menswear garments revealing the construction
2. lay out all the pieces to assemble a fabric or textile pattern
3. coat the textile with white paint
4. pick an option for execution

Options:

1. cut pattern pieces out of this new textile to construct garment

b.   drape this new textile as an object in itself    

                        -on the wall, over an object

                  c.   drape this textile on the body to create new shape and form       

Inspiration:   

Amanda Ross Ho

David Hammons

also see: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/02/arts/design/Hammons-2.html

Jean Shin