What exactly is fashion and what is in fashion?
This also made me begin thinking about whether or not technology could actually be fashionable. With its leading designs and cutting edge technology, Apple certainly believes it can pave the way in fashionable technology.
In recent years, technology has certainly adapted to become a fashion item, using sleek and modern hardware with increasingly easy-to-navigate interfaces – creating the social emergence of geek chic in everyday society. Technology has been incorporated into popular music, in order to create new sounds and musical dialogue previously deemed impossible. Electronic music is now commonplace, its intricate sounds and beats defying conventional music theories, becoming another fashionable interpretation of music.
So, it appears that technology can be considered in fashion. But on the flip side, can fashion, not just the design process itself, incorporate technology? Leading British contemporary fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, world renowned for his innovative designs, takes a progressive attitude towards applying new technology and social shaping technological norms into his designs.
For over fifteen years, Chalayan has experimented with design and technology, using a creative approach in linking cultural identity, displacement, and migration with fashion. The Design Museum in London, England is currently showcasing over a decade of his work, with exhibits including “Airborne”, a garment masterpiece that integrates the shimmering effects of Swarovski crystals with over 15,000 LED lights and “Before Minus Now”, which is a dress that is constructed of materials used in aircraft and can change shape with the touch of a remote control.
I guess FIT was progressive in naming its institution to describe where fashion and technology really do meet.
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