Tech style trends: The future is wearable

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Fashion Week in 2017, US technology company XO launched sub-brand TwentyFour15 — a line of app connected, fibre-optic, colour-changing apparel. Using an app connected via bluetooth, users can change the colours of the LED lights embedded into the clothes or sync the movements of the lights to music.

As fashion and tech continue to intertwine, a roundup of some iconic collaborations.

Glow-In-The-Dark Dress

In 2016, actress Claire Danes made a show-stopping entrance at the Met Gala in a one-of-a-kind Zac Posen gown. In keeping with the theme that year — ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology’ — the whimsical Cinderella-like ballgown was crafted from a fibre-optic woven organza, allowing the high-tech garment to light up in the dark. “Each panel of fabric, the yarns are connected to a small little battery and that’s what charges it,” said Posen. “Somebody has to actually climb under the dress to manually turn on 30 separate light panels, but once they’re all on, it’s electrifying.”

Spray-Painted Dress

Taking this one step further is Dr Manel Torres, managing director of Fabrican and inventor of the spray-on fabric that adorned model Bella Hadid at Coperni’s Spring Summer ’23 finale. Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant, the brains behind the Parisian lab el, tied up wit h Fabrican for that magical ramp moment during Paris Fashion Week where a team of specialists, led by Torres, spray-painted a white, minimalist Coperni dress directly onto her body. According to a magazine piece, the spray uses Torres’