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Clothing has become as much about modesty and covering our private bits as it is about warmth and protection. Which is why Dutch design team Studio Roosegaarde’s fashion project, INTIMACY, does a number on our notions about the nature of clothes and the extremes we reach to make and wear them.
Exploring the relation between intimacy and technology, the high-tech garments, made out of opaque smart e-foils, become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people. Visually, they disappear.
“Social interactions determine the garmentsʼ level of transparency, creating a sensual play of disclosure,” notes the Studio.
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Like something Harry Potter might have devised had he ended up as a slightly risque, forward-thinking designer in the Netherlands, the garments decrease in opacity with changes in the rate of one’s heartbeat. Essentially, your heart races and your clothing fades away.
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‘Blackʼ and ʻWhiteʼ dresses come in a length of 100cm, width 40 cm, and include smart foils, wireless technologies, electronics, LEDs, copper and other media.
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INTIMACY 2.0, above, features Studio Roosegaarde’s dresses made of leather and the smart e-foils.
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Is it any surprise that naked clothes come from the same team that brought us Sustainable Dance Floor, the interactive dance floor which generates electricity through the act of dancing?
Studio Roosegaarde is currently selecting haute couture designers to develop the next INTIMACY 3.0 fashion line for men and women. Who knows what the next line might reveal?
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