Over the past few weeks, I had the opportunity to meet Anouk Wipprecht, the Dutch designer considered among the world’s leading fashion tech experts.
Anouk is known to combine fashion and engineering, seizing all the opportunities affordable by wearable technologies and using sensors not as simple activity or status detectors, but to build a relationship between the body and the item worn.
Halfway between dresses and art installations, Anouk’s creations are currently 40, of which certainly stands out for the Synapse Dress, with a series of LEDs that are triggered by the wearer’s brain waves, or the Spider Dress, my favorite, that like a spider reacts by attacking those who approach too much to us.
All Anouk creations take an average of 60 hours to be assembled and make extensive use of 3D prints, interaction design, machine learning and robotics.
A fantastic example of geek-chic!