Fashion and Technology

This week, I made it to Computational Couture, a party in the Museum of Science in Boston that just so happened to have a fashion show cruising down the escalators. It was supposed to demonstrate how technology can be wearable! But in the end, most designs demonstrated how technology can be attached to clothing for fun! I attended with some friends, one of whom could be considered an expert in this type of research and she had a terrific soap box rant for this event. She said something to the effect of: "Someone needs to come in and save the wearable technology industry, and it isn't going to be me. If you saw my clothing come down this runway, you wouldn't be able to tell what the technology is, but that's how it would be most useful- HIDDEN! Don't just use technology for the sake of technology, make it help something in your everyday life."


We also got to talking about our alma mater, Cornell, and some of the programs that we experienced there, including the Cornell Body Scanner Program. A 3D body scan is translated into a set of measurements that help dictate a clothing pattern! A quickie blurb from the PBS show "Design Squad" is here.