London Fashion Week: Smartphone dress is world's first interactive garment

 
Groundbreaking: the dress shows imagery from designers Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman's travels. Picture: Alex Lentati
14 February 2014

A garment created from 80 smartphones was premiered today at London Fashion Week billed as the world’s first interactive skirt.

The dress, which went on public display for the first time today at the Fyodor Golan show at The Farmilo building in Clerkenwell, will display an image configured across the devices and will use GPS to “shimmer” as the model walks.

The phone screens will convey imagery from designers Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman’s travels across Asia using the dress as a digital “canvas”.

It will also be used to live stream footage of the front row back at them to create an interactive catwalk.

Podgorny said: “This A/W 14 season we toyed with tradition against technology. We believe that you can create almost anything that isn’t influenced by gravity.

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“The colour changes as the skirt moves and the idea of making the screens react to the word around it via photographs and video is something that we do not think has been done before.”

It follows the recent launch of the Nokia Lumia 1520 which the mobile company claims has been particularly popular with fashionistas and fashion journalists on the front row.

Kin, the Farringdon-based company which manufactured the dress, said it took them two months to concept and three weeks to create.

Initial drawings were sketched along side Fyodor Golan then they were developed using engineering tools and rapid prototyping tools such as 3D printing and laser cutting to evolve the design.

Matt Wade, director of Kin, the team that built the dress, said the biggest challenge was coordinating all the devices and technology so they can be worn. So it can have integrity as a dress but also battery life.”

He added: “This is exciting new territory that pushes the boundaries of what is possible in fashion, designing and programming.”

Annie Kearney, global activation director for Nokia, added: “This is about exploring the boundaries of technology and fashion. It’s more of a piece of art. Innovation is what sets people apart.”

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