*I'd have to be absurdly hard-hearted not to enjoy this.
Robot garments between fashion and technology (and they're open source even)
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Stefania Garassini: Going back to the clothing collection, are you planning to market your garments? Is it possible to buy one?
Anouk Wipprecht: My creations have the purpose of activating a dialogue between worlds that otherwise would remain distant from one another. They are case studies in which I try out technology and verify the solutions that can best function to achieve a certain effect, like a certain form of interaction. I work with IT companies such as Intel (where one of the five existing examples of the Spider Dress is held) and with luxury brands like Swarowski, a company for which I made jewellery connected to the heartbeat. In reality my clothes can already be produced on a large scale now, and the instructions are continuously being downloaded from the website for printing the models at home....
