Our machines dress us, and undress us

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This is a story, about the relationship between technology and fashion, written for the October 2012 edition of Leeds Digital Fashion Week…

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Eleanor Snare at #bettakultcha VII - "Fashion, why it's more interesting than you currently think it is".

At around the 2:13 mark, Eleanor talks about "fashion as language"

Fashion is language – a syntax, a grammar and a vocabulary – a language in which our machines are gaining fluency. They dress us, and undress us.

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Robots in Boston and Brooklyn fabricate and architect impossible geometries around our feet; heels named for twisted physics. Algorithms approximate our bones and nerves and genes, weaving jewels from powdered ceramics and steel. Seamless structures of code and cotton quietly obsolete the needle and thread, tailoring personal fabrics to our bodies.

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United Nude's Möbius Kate

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Tetra Kinematics 120n is a large, asymmetrical statement piece made of one-hundred and twenty unique tetrahedral components. This large, avant-garde necklace expresses the exciting potential of 3D-printed fashion.

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Are 3D-Printed Fabrics the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

http://www.ecouterre.com/are-3d-printed-fabrics-the-future-of-sustainable-textiles/

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Colour Forecast shows you in real time what colours people are wearing in the fashion capitals – Paris, Milan and Antwerp – check it out before you go out.

http://www.pimkiecolorforecast.com

Machine eyes in Paris and Milan follow their makers, anticipating trending hues and shades of the day. Dissidents evade the robot gaze with hair, makeup and garments that camouflage the biological from the digital. A New Aesthetic for human style.

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CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition.

http://cvdazzle.com

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New Aesthetic

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Shoebox-sized drones haul boxes from the Amazon to your door. Today’s wardrobe is realtime, on-demand and on-trend, no longer things, but avatars for the Cloud. Levis-as-a-service? Buttons and rivets and pockets and cuffs, and the Web is the thread that holds it together.

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Life itself is optimised and synthesised for style. Biocouturists in London grow dresses from vats of bacterial cellulose and hemp, populating farms of insects. with new biologies. Animal algorithms programmed to spin hydrophobic threads and silks.

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We wear the machines and they wear us; garments with sentience - thinking, reacting, transforming, expressing and sensing. We wear the threads that cleanse the air, of poisons from machines we make.

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Guided by apps and phones and clever clothes, dancers and athletes remain suspended in that perfect movement, playing and replaying graceful physics that connect them to the elations of action and reaction.

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Our machines dress us, and undress us. Couture is now code, grown in labs and fabs and incubators.

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But we still run this show, it’s people that’ll assemble this future of fashion, even if those people are no longer human.

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