Voice following dress Here
Hussein Chalayan's Afterwords Here
Probes Skin Dress Phillips Here
Hussein Chalayan's Animatronic Fashion Here
Hussein Chalayan Transformer Dresses Click Here
Thermo Chronic fabric Here
Walking city pneumatic dress Here
Kinetic couture
15/10/10
Trash Fashion science museum:
To watch the 'Bio-Couture' video Click Here
To watch the 'Hot look' video Click Here
To watch the 'Knit to fit' video Click Here
8/10/10
What is textiles?
A textile is defined by its multi-flexibility.
Traditional textiles are made by knitting, weaving, crocheting natural or synthetic fibres.
Textiles are used everywhere from our clothes, furniture and design to roads and in heart surgery. A big concern in the textile industry is the sustainability. We are creating new recyclable textiles and using new energies such as ultrasound, heat, water and laser cutting to create new finishes.
Today we are finding new ways of applying fibre to fabric.
Matting
Claudy Jongstra uses the matting of fibres to create art pieces.
Spray on fabric
Another designer Dr Manel Torres invented the instant spray on fabric wile studying for his MA at RCA in 1995.
Electro-spinning
This is another way of manipulating fibres into textile.
It was first developed for the army.
Laser cutting
Paper laser cutting is popular in design but very wasteful. Janet stoyel invented the laser cutting using medical lasers for her work.
Product design Lauren Moriarty:
Installation by Tord Boontje:
Rapid prototyping
Printing a CAD file layer by layer with a laser that turns powder into solid material.
Click Here to view FOC's Rapid manufacturing video.
Bathsheba Grossman's quin lamp:
Fractal table developed by Platform Wertel Oberfell and Matthias Bär for Materialise.MGX.
Iris Van Herpen Spring Summer 2011 collection:
The newes form of textile is biologically grown material; Vegetal, mineral and animal textiles.
Biocouture - Making textiles from bacteria.
Suzanna Lee used Persimmon (cellulose) on her textiles. This is a Japonese way of waterproofing which enables the textile to be dyed using fuit and vegetable dies without it dissolving.
Suzanna Lee Jacket
Ecokimono
Crystal growing
crystallographic art:
Anna Paloma's sugar lamp:
Biowear
Growing leather. Bio-art project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr.
