Author: Lesley
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Bringing Down the Houses
If ever there were a precarious moment when the foundations of the great houses of fashion should tremble this is it. Labels rely on three elements when crafting fashion, and one is about to become obsolete. Aesthetic, innovation, and scarcity rule the industry. Designers are skilled artists working within the medium of silhouette and texture. …
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Prosthetics as Wearable Sculpture: The Future of Functional Fashion
With the evolution of 3-d printing, functional fashion is due a radical awakening. I’m not talking about structural creations with which some of the well established fashion houses have begun to experiment. Within the next decade we should see the capability to print human tissue using a patient’s own stem cells, and eventually biomedical engineers…
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Monster Subculture for Kids
With the recent release of their hit Cider Cider, Japanese pop group Tempura Kidz erupted onto the international stage. Full disclosure: I can’t speak Japanese. Yet. So for the purpose of this post I’m approaching Cider Cider from a purely aesthetic angle as it relates to fashion, technology, and subculture.