Techno Fashion - Quinn, B.

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Résumé :
Contents
Introduction
Fashion and the Built Environment
Yeohlee Teng
Lucy Orta
Hussein Chalayan
Twenty-first-century Bodies
Tristan Webber
Alexander McQueen
Hussein Chalayan
Surveillance
Simon Thorogood
Vexed Generation
Katrina Barillova
Cybercouture
Pia Myrvold
nothing nothing
Grey Area
Intelligent Fashion
i-Wear
Electric Embroidery
Sensory Signals
Techno Medicine
Military Intelligence
Working Intelligence
Transformables
Bits and Pieces: Patrick Cox, Galya Rosenfeld and John Ribbe
John Ribbe
C P Company
Kosuke Tsumura: Final Home
Jeff Griffin
Japanese Innovation
Rei Kawakubo
Yohji Yamamoto
Issey Miyake
Michiko Koshino
Junya Watanabe
Electric Textiles
Daniel Herman
Shelley Fox
Elisabeth de Senneville
Kei Kagami
Nigel Atkinson
Rebecca Earley
Sophie Roet
Savithri Bartlett
Shape-shifting Textiles
Sportswear: Technology in Motion
Technology in Motion
Bridging the Gap
Fashion Active Lab
Sports Shoes
Notes
Index...

Biographie:
Bradley Quinn is an author, journalist and independent scholar with expertise in fashion, textiles and design. His books include Techno Fashion, The Fashion of Architecture, Chinese Style, Scandinavian Style and Mid-century Modern. As his survey of fashion and textile technology charts recent developments, Quinn explores the furthermost boundaries of what the new generation of textiles can achieve....

Sommaire:
From digital-display dresses to remote control couture, this book exposes the revolutionary interface between contemporary fashion and technology. As twenty-first century fashion makes a dramatic departure from traditional methods, designers no longer turn to the past for inspiration, but look to the hi-tech future. The result is techno fashion, the new wave of intelligent clothing that fuses fashion with communication technology, electronic textiles, and sophisticated design innovations that express new ideas about appearance, construction and wearability. Born out of the collaboration between fashion designers, researchers and scientists, this new dialogue could be the most significant design innovation in fashion's history, or indicate its eventual demise. Either way, techno fashion promises to forever disrupt the historical narrative of fashion evolution. Through interviews with designers ranging from innovators such as Hussein Chalayan and Tristan Webber to mavericks like Alexander McQueen, Bradley Quinn examines the impact of this new direction. The fusion of design and technology introduced by Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake has created another direction for clothing, creating a new breed of designer-cum-scientist who redefines the way we dress, communicate, and even respond to environmental changes. As technology begins to shape fashion's future, it redefines the boundaries between clothing, body and machine, forever transforming the ethics and lifestyles traditionally designated by codes of dress....