Have you ever wished you looked more like a stock ticker? Well, now there's a smock that lets you scroll a custom message down its front, lit up like a marquee. Then there's a dress that uses special ink and sensors to change color based on the weather.
Welcome to the brave new world of fashion.
Well, kind of. Those were some of the garments on display earlier this year at FashionWare, a fashion show held every year during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The 2016 edition kicks off next week.
The garments are more concept designs than anything else, but they're emblematic of the challenge as technology and fashion increasingly and unapologetically collide. Can designers get people to wear tech-infused clothes without them looking like (A) idiots, (B) caricatures of sci-fi characters or (C) both?
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This dress from MeU showed up at CES last January. It's outfitted with an LED installation and an Uno Noteband bracelet, which displays emails, among other things.
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"We're way past spandex," said Robin Raskin, CEO of Living in Digital Times, the company that is putting on the fashion show for its sixth straight year at CES. Once upon a time, the stretchy material was one of the only tools designers had if they wanted to try out something futuristic. Now the palette is much more plentiful: sensors, LED lights, screens, all woven into garments, watches, rings, headbands and more.
Wearables weren't always the obvious choice when people wanted to make a fashion statement with personal tech. For almost a decade, that honor has gone to the smartphone, whose metal bodies and glass screens have been the epitome of cool for almost a decade. But that's begun to change.
Take the iPhone, which was the apex of tech fashion for years but has perhaps become too commonplace. And now that Google's Android mobile software has gotten good enough to be a decent Apple alternative, other phone makers are getting fashionable too.
Whatever the reason, phones are everywhere, and now that they look roughly the same, they can't be the fashion symbol they once were.
"You're starting to see the phone become the thing that's buried somewhere on you," said Raski
Welcome to the brave new world of fashion.
Well, kind of. Those were some of the garments on display earlier this year at FashionWare, a fashion show held every year during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The 2016 edition kicks off next week.
The garments are more concept designs than anything else, but they're emblematic of the challenge as technology and fashion increasingly and unapologetically collide. Can designers get people to wear tech-infused clothes without them looking like (A) idiots, (B) caricatures of sci-fi characters or (C) both?
Enlarge Image
This dress from MeU showed up at CES last January. It's outfitted with an LED installation and an Uno Noteband bracelet, which displays emails, among other things.
Britta Pedersen/dpa/Corbis
"We're way past spandex," said Robin Raskin, CEO of Living in Digital Times, the company that is putting on the fashion show for its sixth straight year at CES. Once upon a time, the stretchy material was one of the only tools designers had if they wanted to try out something futuristic. Now the palette is much more plentiful: sensors, LED lights, screens, all woven into garments, watches, rings, headbands and more.
Wearables weren't always the obvious choice when people wanted to make a fashion statement with personal tech. For almost a decade, that honor has gone to the smartphone, whose metal bodies and glass screens have been the epitome of cool for almost a decade. But that's begun to change.
Take the iPhone, which was the apex of tech fashion for years but has perhaps become too commonplace. And now that Google's Android mobile software has gotten good enough to be a decent Apple alternative, other phone makers are getting fashionable too.
Whatever the reason, phones are everywhere, and now that they look roughly the same, they can't be the fashion symbol they once were.
"You're starting to see the phone become the thing that's buried somewhere on you," said Raski
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