Would you want a dress that glows


Fashion and technology have always been inextricably linked, and this season's fashion week can be both popular and avant-garde elements? -- LED technology trend, they let people wear technology. Today we are going to talk about the fashionable LED elements, their light has been illuminating the fashion circle, and has been for many years.

For example, the spring/Summer 2017 fashion week just ended, Karl Lagerfeld brought the theme of "Back to the Future" to the Chanel show.

A techno database array forms the background of the audience seats, which open with models wearing helmets shaped like alien robots.

However, for us, the most dazzling accessories are undoubtedly those Chanel pieces decorated with LED.

But in the GIF you will find that the LED lights after the setting can rotate at will to achieve the changing functions of the screen, in addition to the brand letters, but also to form the classic diamond pattern and double C logo.

Supermodel Catherine McNeil's LED-encrusted soft twill coat is also eye-catching, with a small light at each diamond interlace that shines when the light is dim.

For example, Dolce&Gabbana, in the 2017 spring/summer series, the two designers also love LED elements, in addition to integrating it into the headdress design, high heel roots and handbags can be lit up, emitting neon stars.

Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana are far from the first brands to bring LED into the fashion circle. As Diane von Furstenberg once said, "Technology is part of our lives." Designers have also been exploring the greatest possibilities of "technology" added to "fashion". Back in 1999, Alexander McQueen, who is keen on the use of technology in both design and show layout, designed a LED corset for Givenchy Autumn/Winter 1999 collection.

LED lights arranged in the form of circuit boards add drama to the darkness, and the light arrangement seems to be the future imagination of Alexander McQueen.

A few years later, Hussein Chalayan, who is good at creating all kinds of transformable fashion, used LED elements to depict the New York City street scene in the fall/Winter 2007 collection.

Hussein Chalayan uses technology to express his thoughts on society and to call attention to environmental issues.

In the Richard Nicoll Spring/Summer 2015 collection, a slip dress shines, and in addition to the hidden LED light bulbs, the fiber optical filigold provided by London Studio XO also contributes.

Ashish's Fall/Winter 2014 collection brings LED platform shoes, which are unique and fun.

Chanel 2011 autumn/winter haute couture show, fish mouth high heels shoe head equipped with LED, a kind of searchlight illuminate the road ahead of the look.

Chanel 2016 spring/summer show, is the LED lights decorated in platform sandals, shoes also equipped with charging cables.

In fact, this year's "Handmade Crafts and Machines: "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" as the theme of the Met Gala, technology and fashion also collided a lot of amazing sparks, but also proved that many LED pieces can also go down the runway.

Karlie Kloss's Lisa Perry handbag, for example, shines.

For example, Marchesa's collaboration with IBM brought Karolina Kurkova this LED three-dimensional floral embellished gown. The "cognitivist dress" can vary the lighting effect depending on the mood it was previously set to express.

Claire Danes won the show in this Zac Posen tailored gown that glowed in the dark, with 30 mini batteries sewn into the bottom.

This Zac Posen dress shines in dim lighting.

Katy Perry brought a LED dress to the red carpet at the 2010 Met Gala, and this CuteCircuit dress with LED lights lit up is also memorable.

Of course, referring to "science and technology", also can not but mention "tradition", LED as a representative of the development of science and technology fashion, in fact, is not anti-tradition, in a certain point of view, these science and technology fashion need to be more sophisticated and solid traditional technology. Therefore, for the fashion circle, the addition of "science and technology" to "fashion" is the respect and reconstruction of the traditional hand-made clothing process.

And isn't our interest in these emerging "future" fashions the reason the fashion industry exists?

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