When technology meets fashion
Fashion and technology do not often go together. The two are in fact poles apart. But what happens when the two worlds collide? The results wouldn't be what you expected. Take a look...- The future of fashion and technology is here and we can only say one thing... It is looking good! Info and photo courtesy: paulinevandongen.nl
- These unusual shapes and structures have been translated into a collection that combines a fluid form language with abstract constructed shapes, graphic lines and smooth curves with striking materials around the body.
- The garments recreate lines and undulations that mark the deterioration of the earth’s surface.
- Until now. Dutch designer Pauline van Dongen recently released an experimental line of clothes that harnesses the power of the sun to charge small gadgets like your phone.
- Solar technology, despite whatever aesthetic and gadget-charging potential it may have, just hasn’t been that wearable.This collection formulates an aesthetic of technology through the mean of a rational element made irrational: geometry.
- Wearable tech has always been predicated on the fact that little bits of wire, glass and electronics have somehow been made comfortable enough to put on our bodies.
- A shimmering ocean of solar panels looks cool in photographs, but to wear those panels on your clothes? Sounds cool doesn't it. A little scary, but cool.
- After graduating from ArtEZ, Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, she started her own womenswear label in 2010. Pauline operates a meticulous research of the behaviour of experimental and high-tech materials, combining new technologies with traditional
- So she creates these stunning master pieces that focus on the visual abstraction discovered in nature’s eroded appearance and captures the strength of two powerful elements, air and water, and their impact on the surroundings.
- Designer Pauline van Dongen believes that the human habitat reveals a techno-morphed structure that can no longer be hidden behind the vestiges of a natural world: technology has to be naturalized.
Fashion and technology do not often go together. The two are in fact poles apart. But what happens when the two worlds collide? The results wouldn't be what you expected. Take a look...
When technology meets fashion
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