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Apr 25, 2011 IRIS VAN HERPEN s/s 2011Iris's collection shown at Amsterdam Fashion Week, Crystallization is an exploration of the properties that water can embody in its liquid or frozen form, translated into a fashion vocabulary via the tensions and conflicts between both soft and fluid materials and hard and rigid forms.
She describes the inspiration for this collection saying, ...I am fascinated by the fact that there are secret lines hidden in totally transparent and liquid material. The highly technical body of work includes rubber, leather, metallics, chains and plastics. It consists of ten looks physically conceptualising the forms of water- from frozen waterfalls of moulded transparent plastic, wrapping around bodies or integrated into convoluted leather creations to mathematically structured formations embodying crystals, consisting of shapes repeated and scaled to create a single volume to wrap around the female form. These multifaceted creations are made possible by the complexities and possibilities of 3D printing and rapid prototyping: the automatic construction of physical objects using additive manufacturing technology. Computer modelling isnt something typically used in world of high fashion, it is most commonly used in developing car parts. It is however, beginning to filter into the worlds of fine art and sculpture used for developing complex shapes, but in terms of being used to construct a garment this is a first.

Whats particularly original about Van Herpen is that she maintains an aesthetic so ultra modern via the sum of terribly intricate pieces. She fuses a traditional sense of ornamentalism reminiscent of the Art Nouveau period with a slick futurism - a tangible analogy for her own design process of blending handcraft and technique with computer aided design. Meanwhile despite a staunch stylistic bond with futurism and rigidity, both the underlying silhouette and tone of the collection via tightly cut and bound silhouettes is feminine and sensual, almost teetering on the erotic.

Van Herpen explains that she feels fashion is far behind on the technological ladder; when it comes to new techniques, materials and construction-methods. She challenges this slope by expanding the notion of fabrics, the garment and what it is to wear. Armed with a definite nod to craftsmanship and a central comprehension of aesthetics, Van Herpens feet and focus are placed firmly on the future. It is an inventor and innovator like her who can keep the pulse of fashion pumping with concepts that truly break and rebuild the possible, proving that one womans life work is another womans seasonal collection. The pressure is on for Van Herpen to keep up the momentum and with her first show in Paris March next year all eyes are on Iris.




Issue 01: Designer Profile: IRIS VAN HERPENby Faint Magazine on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 7:37amPosted byElena Shvabat5:20 AMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Apr 12, 2011 Mini GardensCute



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Posted byElena Shvabat4:43 AMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestWearable Garden

Artist Karen Inghams latest project is guaranteed to make a buzz. The British insect-lover has produced a series of dresses designed to aid shrinking populations of bees and other pollinators, a growing environmental crisis that threatens our global food system. Featuring electron-microscopy images of pollen, Inghams Pollinator Frocks are treated with a nectar-like sugar solution that attracts and nourishes bees and their brethren. She even created outfits for separate occasions: day-wear to draw bees and butterflies and evening-wear for nocturnal critters such as moths.

Pollinator Frocks Are Wearable Gardens That Attract, Feed Hungry BeesPopulations of insect pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and moths, and the plants on which they depend, are declining at alarming rates due to deleterious human activity, says Ingham, who collaborated with entomologists, botanists, microscopists, and engineers to develop her prototypes. These symbiotic relationships must be protected.

Treated with a nectar-like sugar solution, the dresses mimic the way insects relate to flowers.

Working with technologists at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, Ingham examined aromas and materials that mimic the way insects relate to flowers before settling on her arresting printed fabrics, which she dubs wearable gardens. Ingham sees her dresses having the most impact in urban spaces, where gardens are limited in number, nectar-rich plants are rare, and public engagement is most needed. The clothing can be hung out as clothes are hung on a washing line, to act as an attractant to pollinators, she says.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2uJeHy/www.ecouterre.com/20221/mit-scientists-create-fibers-that-can-hear-sing-generate-electricity//r:f Posted byElena Shvabat4:07 AMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestMIT Scientists Create Fibers That Can Hear, Sing, Generate Electricity

Research scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are singing a new tune with a new type of interactive fiber that has the ability to detect and create sound. For associate professor Yoel Fink and his team at MITs Research Lab of Electronics, the threads used in textiles and even optical fibers are too passive to be truly useful. It may have taken a decade, but the researchers have finally developed a far more sophisticated version, one that enables fabrics to interact with their environment.

SOUND OFFFeatured in the August issue of Nature, the acoustic fibers have innumerable potential applications, from microphone-like clothes that capture speech or monitor bodily functions to microscopic filaments that can measure blood flow or brain pressure.

The fibers could be used to create microphone-like clothes that capture speech or monitor bodily functions.

Unlike regular optical fibers, which are made from a preform (a large cylinder, comprising a single material, that is heated up, stretched, then cooled), the fibers in Finks lab are composed of several different materials, all of which must maintain their integrity through the heating and stretching process.
PIEZOELECTRIC BOOGALOOAt the core of the fibers is a plastic commonly found in microphones. Fink and company tinkered with the plastics fluorine content to create an asymmetric distribution of fluorine molecules on one end and hydrogen molecules on the other. The imbalance is what makes the plastic piezoelectric, which means that it changes shape when exposed to an electric field or conversely, generates electricity when under mechanical strain.

It can emit and detect sound, measure pressure and flow, and even generate electricity when stretched.

You can actually hear them, these fibers, says Noémie Chocat, a graduate student in the materials science department. If you connected them to a power supply and applied a sinusoidal current, then it would vibrate. And if you make it vibrate at audible frequencies and put it close to your ear, you could actually hear different notes or sounds coming out of it.
So far, the researchers have determined that the nanofiber can emit and detect sound, measure pressure and flow, and even generate electricity when stretched. Finks team is perfecting the process to manufacture kilometers of the material at a time. Spanning large distances, the fibers can be used as loose nets that monitor the flow of water in the ocean or as sonar imaging systems with the equivalent of millions of tiny acoustic sensors.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2uJeHy/www.ecouterre.com/20221/mit-scientists-create-fibers-that-can-hear-sing-generate-electricity//r:fPosted byElena Shvabat2:20 AMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestBio-Fuel Growing Eco Pods Rejuvenate Stalled Boston Project



Halted in November 2008, mid-construction, the Filene development in downtown Boston is currently barely even a shell of a building. The bones of the building are up, but sub street level a giant hole leaves a gouge in the citys plan. Undaunted, Höweler + Yoon Architecture and Squared Design Lab teamed up to design a vertical tower of prefabricated eco pods filled with bio-fuel producing algae for the space. The new tower would act as a center to test new algae species and different growing methods.

Stalled projects are a blight on any citys landscape, but several Boston architects are looking to turn those mid-construction eyesores into useful (and cool-lookin) spaces. With the economy in the gutter, many developers plans were squashed, but rather than sit idly, the Boston Globe asked architects to take a look at the sites and envision completely new projects that use the existing structure to improve the city. Höweler + Yoon and Squared Design Lab took a stab at the stalled Filene Development at Downtown Crossing and envisioned Eco Pods, a prefab, bio-fuel producing building that can adapt, change and grow over time.
Robotic arms attached to the building would move the pods around to optimize growing conditions. Voids are created when the pods are reconfigured, leaving behind space for public parks or botanical gardens. Bio-fuel created within the pods is used to power the robotic arms and the remainder would be used elsewhere, possibly to assist construction. Once construction is complete, the pods could be taken and reinstalled on another building and be reused. As Höweler + Yoon says about the project This is anticipatory pre-cycled architecture, capable of generating a new micro-urbanism that is local, agile and carbon net-postive.
http://inhabitat.com/reenvisioning-bostons-stalled-project-as-bio-fuel-growing-eco-pods/filenes-stalled-project-2/
Posted byElena Shvabat1:46 AMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestHanging Gardens Kept Alive Through IV Drips
Hanging gardens have become art in Houstons Lawndale Art Center. Local artist/designer Ned Dodingtontransformed a stark white gallery interior into a verdant landscape with 30 hanging eco-pods of Fescue and Ryegrass. How are they watered you ask? Each pod is plugged into its own life supporting IV drip.

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The Blob Grows in the Beloved Gardens, 1975by Friedensreich HundertwasserPosted byElena Shvabat1:02 AMNo comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Older PostsHomeSubscribe to:Posts (Atom)FollowersBlog Archive 2011(17) April(8)IRIS VAN HERPEN s/s 2011Mini GardensWearable GardenMIT Scientists Create Fibers That Can Hear, Sing, ...Bio-Fuel Growing Eco Pods Rejuvenate Stalled Bosto...Hanging Gardens Kept Alive Through IV DripsResearchNew project. Please meet The Gargen! February(6) January(3) 2010(2) December(1) November(1)About MeElena ShvabStudied BA (Hons) Textile Design at Chelsea College of Art and Design 2010-2013Currently completing Millinery course at Kensington and Chelsea College 2013-2014. This blog is fully dedicated to my Millinery Final Collection research, including theme inspiration, useful links, texts and visual data.View my complete profilePowered by Blogger.

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