Intermission

In 2008, Lacoste company, celebrated its 75th anniversary. Akama studios created the following (really cool) commercial. An inspired future concept and great computer animation.

A look in 2083 and future sportswear.

A "miracle fiber"

After posting the history of spandex, i think it's time to talk about nylon.

In 1930, Wallace Carothers (the same man that invented neoprene) and other scientists working for DuPont Company studied chains of polymers, in an attempt to find a substitute for silk.

And they made it. 

DuPont designed nylon as a synthetic silk for women's stockings.

DuPont Company showed the first nylon women's hosiery at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair.

64 million pairs of nylon stocking were sold in United States.

Nylon is used in an enormous number of products today, including basketball nets, carpeting, clothing, fishing lines, strings for musical instruments, surgical sutures, tennis racquet strings, vehicle upholstery and many others.Nylon has even been to the moon. The astronauts who landed there,  in 1969, wore space suits containing nylon fibres and the flag that Neil Armstrong planted was made of nylon.

And now it's time for a chemistry class. A chemical demonstration of the synthesis of nylon in Carleton University, Canada.

I like this video because it makes it look easy and fun though i'm sure it's not! Don't try this at home...

The thin line between fashion & art

In my previous post, one could say that i haven't included probably the most talented, futuristic and innovative fashion designer of all times. Alexander McQueen

Well, i did it on purpose...

Until his life was cut short, he worked in every aspect of the fashion world, creating bold, borderline offensive collections like his 'Highland Rape' series, to even designing shoes for Puma.

Always looking to push the boundaries of not just what we wear, but how we see ourselves, he also created this stunning mix of robotics and beauty. It is possibly, a glimpse of how we may dress ourselves, or, perhaps more accurately, an idea of how the boundaries of what is and what is to come are more fluid and malleable than ever.

This particular dress was created for McQueen's 1999 collection:

How amazing is that?

Last but not least, i can't help myself from posting his last futuristic victorian fashion show.

Alexander McQueen: “Plato’s Atlantis” Fashion Show, Spring/Summer 2010 Womens Collection

Runway Show

http://o-ze.com/alexander-mcqueen-platos-atlantis/

The show was streamed live to a potential audience of millions by six video cameras and two robot installations on the hologram catwalk which operated on motion-control technology, responding to the models' movements.

McQueen, one of the brightest lights of the UK fashion scene, was a four-time winner of the British designer of the year award as well as the international designer of the year award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

More than words...

When it comes to talking about futuristic fashion designers in the 00's, I decided to let photos of their creations speak for themselves! If these designers who propel fashion see the future and it looks like this, then i'm looking forward to it.

I made a selection of my favourites, enjoy!

Hussein Chalayan

                          

Ara Jo 

Amy Thomson

Manuel Albarran

Iris Van Herpen

Futurism is a powerful trend for 2012, so i picked Paco Rabanne's spring-summer collection 2012. Manish Arora debuts his first collection for the  label with a futuristic bang.(Or just to keep you interested...)

Futurismo

                     Andre Courreges' Eskimo shades(1965)

New technologies, new materials, innovation and alternative fabric manipulation techniques bring futuristic fashion to life.

In 1964 Andre Courreges launched the ‘space-age’ look. His success was followed by Paco Rabanne’s 1966 interpretation of the futuristic theme. Rabanne created clothing using plastic, metal and even chain mail. This extreme look caught on commercially in the form of chain link belts, heavy metal necklaces and disk like earrings. Pierre Cardin also created his version of the space age look with stylised visored helmet hats and shift dresses.

Sit back and enjoy this short video featuring space age influences in fashions of the 1960's.

Stay tuned for my next post referring to futuristic fashion designers of today.

The fabric that changed fashion

Although i can't wait to post exciting future technologies,I thought it would be very interesting to write about inventions that have brought revolution in fashion. So, let's start with the history of spandex.

In 1942, William Hanford and Donald Holmes invented polyurethane. 

Polyurethane is the basis of a novel type of elastomeric fibre known generically as spandex. It is a man-made fibre, able to stretch at least 100% and snap back like natural rubber. 

Spandex was created in the late 1950s, developed by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc. The first commercial production of spandex fibre in the United States began in 1959.

The name "spandex" is an anagram of the word "expands". In many European countries it is referred to as "elastane", and is known in Britain mainly as Lycra.

In the 1970s,it started to make an impact on the fashion scene, as disco fever and interest in fitness made leggings and  leotards the look of the moment. Leggings and jeans with lycra are among the defining looks of the decade.

By the mid 1980s, over half of all women’s hosiery and underwear were made with spandex fibres.

Now that you have learnt all you need to know about lycra, let's have some fun. The following video/commercial is a different approach on how lycra can have a great impact in our...personal lives too!

Vintage fashion forecasting

In 1938, Vogue magazine asked nine designers to forecast fashion of the year 2000 and create garments.

And here they are on the runway.

A writer to admire

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real” Jules Verne

One of my favourite writers as a child was Jules Verne. Or maybe i should say one of my favourite scientists?

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author - regarded as the "Father of Science Fiction".

photo by wikipedia

A pioneer in his genre and an extremely talented writer, he referred to his books as "science novels".

His work was a result of hard study and thorough research on the topic he was dealing with. Chemistry, geography, mechanics, science in general. 

Most of his bizarre and fantastic ideas were not just pure imagination but possible future inventions. Jules Verne himself revealed that scientists had already invented submarines at least 60 years before writing "Captain Nemo".

He foresaw a range of technological innovations long before their arrival.Electric submarines, newscasts, solar sails, lunar modules, skywriting, videoconferencing, taser and splashdown spaceship are inventions he 'd written about and came true.

He wrote 88 books and he 's the second most translated author in the world. 

A few words...

Science, future, sci-fi, technology, fashion, imagination. Words that have a lot in common. That is what i'm  going to present through my posts.

This blog is a try to combine future technologies, imagination and fashion. See examples where fiction, science and creative thinking came true in fashion industry  and suggest wearable products based on future technologies.

Future Technologies make impossible…possible. Why not even in fashion?

Looks promising, doesn't it?