“You look radiant!” …. No truer words were ever spoken to the gal who enters a room wearing the “Galaxy Dress” (shown left and in the video below).
London-based designers, Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, created the dress, incorporating 24,000 full-color LEDs under the label of their interactive clothing company, CuteCircuit. The dress, now on permanent display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, uses the smallest LEDs available, just 2 by 2 mm, hand-sewn into layers of silk and crinoline which diffuse the light and “can move like normal fabric with lightness (!!) and fluidity.”
The Galaxy Dress is designed to run for up to an hour on tiny iPod batteries sewn into the crinoline. The areas without LEDs are covered with more than 4,000 hand-applied Swarovski crystals that range in color from clear to bright pink. “The dress looks good even when it is switched off,” say the designers.
As for other bright lights on the horizon, designers Hussein Cahalayan and Moritz Waldemeyer have created their own version of Wearable Electronic Haute Couture – garments that incorporate a “complex set of micromotors and individually controllable LEDs” capable of displaying messages or even video imagery.
Talk about making a fashion statement! … The video below shows the CuteCircuit Galaxy Dress in action.
