I am having a real blast writing for the great folks at FutureOfSex ... and I'm very pleased that a brand new piece just went live there.
Click here to read Dressing for Tomorrow: How Designers Are Mixing Technology, Eroticism and Fashion!
When not protecting the wearer against the weather—or in some cases other humans—clothing has always been about sex.
While materials came and went, the basic idea of fashion has stuck around. From power ties to high heels, corsets to tuxedos, jockeys to hot pants, we’ve forever been trying to accentuate, or downplay, certain parts of our anatomy.
But now it looks like things will really be changing. Frequently using what is called intelligent clothing or e-textiles, a few innovative designers are exploring wild new territories—and perhaps giving us a glimpse of the erotic fashions for the next century.
Anouk Wipprecht
To put it overly simple, technology plus fashion, plus sensuality, equals Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht.
One of her designs called the ParticleDress, embraces the open-source movement: where all kinds of technologies are being made available for anyone to tweak or play with.
Basically, she created a 3D printed framework/garment that supports a standardized hexagonal ‘module’—then she reached out to creative people all over the world, inviting them to design their very own modules to be attached to the dress. The final selection of these submissions then made it into the final design, unveiled at the San Francisco Maker Faire in May of this year.
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