The music - so ubiquitous at fashion shows - blared out of loudspeakers as guests and models found themselves in a mobile phone face-off on a bitterly cold February afternoon. Only when they exited the building onto Park Avenue could press photographers record the action as models took their own seats, ready to turn phones onto the guests as they poured outside. The team partnered with a division of Myant & Co., Architects of Intelligent Applications for electroluminescent tape and Sensing Tex for fiber optics.With no music, the only sound was the thud of models prowling the scuffed wooden floor. “Garments with circuitry and other technologies add layers of complexity, especially since these technologies were not originally designed for use with clothing,” Beaudette said.Ĭan’t make the Cornell Fashion Collective runway show in person? Watch it live on CornellCast.įor the team’s runway display, Natani Notah ’14 will complete the hair and makeup for the models: Emily Roehr ’16, majoring in operations research engineering with a Dyson School business minor Lauren Cagnassola ’15, environmental engineering Joel Lawson ’16, chemical engineering and Madeleine Galvin ’18, nutrition and pre-dental. The designer team explained that a big challenge is maintaining harmony between the materials, technologies and construction. The lights react to the beat of the music thanks to an Arduino microcontroller integrated into each garment.īeyond the sparkling shirts and pulsating pants, runway models will be wearing original, custom-made shoes, created using such techniques as 3-D printing and laser cutting. They shimmer with optical fiber cloth illuminated by controllable RGB LEDs (red-green-blue light-emitting diodes) and strips of electroluminescent tape. The fabricated, fashionable clothes capture your attention. “These garments depict our vision of fashion of the future, having increased function and compatibility with devices, such as smartphones.” “This collection is inspired by the future – and present – of wearable technology being more and more integrated into fashion and daily life,” explains Beaudette. Undergraduates will model “Irradiance” – a collection of electrogarments designed by Eric Beaudette ’16, fiber science Lina Sanchez Botero, graduate student in the field of fiber science and Neal Reynolds, graduate student in the field of physics – on the runway at the Cornell Fashion Collective, Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m. These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music. Emily Roehr '16 shows a shirt made of optical fiber cloth.
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