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MIT Fashion Show Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-wrong-with-showing-a-little-ROM dept.

djperception writes "'Seamless: Computational Couture,' a runway fashion event curated by MIT Media Lab graduate students, presented its second annual collection of technologically experimental clothing at the Boston Museum of Science on Feb. 1. Seamless is a fashion event featuring innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. Each project [re]interprets the conceptual goal of a seamless relationship between technology and fashion. A full webcast of the event is now available."

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  1. Re:photo's by kfg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Congratulations, sir, you've invented:

    Classical Greek clothing.

    Oh, yeah, a bit of Egyptian and the sarong as well.

    I don't have a stich on at the moment. I'm dressed from neck to ankle, but I don't have a stictch on. Not even a sewn hem. Just pieces of cloth right off the loom. This guy calls this A-poc. The Greeks called it a Chiton, which means, "A piece of cloth worn like this" or a Chlamys, which means "A piece of cloth worn like this."

    They're both the same simple rectangle of cloth. A chinton is just that piece of cloth pinned like a poncho and the chlamys is that piece of cloth pinned like an off the shoulder shawl. The Greeks did not believe in even cutting a slit in fabric to stick your head through. That would damage the cloth and cloth was revered.

    I'm wearing a chlamys and shenti, which is just Egyptian for sarong, which means. . .?

    Now let's not always see the same hands. That's right, "A piece of cloth."

    Clothes, of course, means "Some pieces of cloth."

    If you're interested in the idea of sewing free clothing go here:

    http://www.idcw.org.uk/

    In the meantime I think I'm off to invent fire and give it a snappy new acronym.

    KFG