Fashion and Technology

Abstract

Technology has always impacted the practice of fashion design. From materials to new manufacturing Though fashion and technology have long intersected, recent revelopments in computation have enabled the adoption of new methods, tools, and approaches to design. From materials to new manufacturing processes of the industrial age, advancements in technology have driven forward our understanding of the aesthetics, style, and functionality of garments and accessories. Fashion and Technology provides a conceptual framework for how new technologies are used in fashion design and shows how they can be implemented into the design process. This practical guide includes highly visual tutorials that introduce students and practitioners to designing with electronics-such as LEDs, sensors, electroluminescent materials, conductive and reactive materials-and digital fabrication technologies such as 3D printing and laser cutting. Projects make these innovative materials accessible to designers and will inspire creative collaborations within studio practice.

Rethinking haute couture: Julien Fournié in the virtual worlds of the metaverse

“…Haute couture is a concept in need of rethinking because, increasingly today, it incorporates forms of thinking that consist in visual representations and calculating, epitomized by reliance upon computerized technologies (Moriwaki and Genova, 2016). These forms of thinking, it is maintained, coincide with dissolving haute couture's complexities, history, and philosophy of French high sewing into technoscience (Heidegger, 1978: 431-449).…”