Make: Wearables Projects on the Runway

Eighteen designers descended on the Javits Center in Manhattan for Make: Wearables Projects on the Runway at Engadget Expand. The high tech and fashionable pieces they showed incorporated light, kinetics, 3D printing, data logging, data visualization, and a lot of incredible skill. With the expert guidance of OCAD’s Kate Hartman and Adafruit’s Becky Stern, Expand attendees got a small glimpse of what’s on the cutting edge of both fashion and technology. The work from these eighteen designers pushes the boundaries beyond what consumers think of when they hear the phrase “wearable technology”

Birce Ozkan’s Augmented Skirt

Birce Ozkan and Betty Quinn’s Enlightenment

Roopa Vasudevan’s Hate Couture

Yuchen Zhang’s Enlightenment

Two piece ensemble by Robert Tu (MeU) and Sebastian Guarin

Dress by Robert Tu (MeU) and Sebastian Guarin

Robert Tu and Som Kong’s LED Coat

Elizabeth Tolson’s ballet dress for Arch Contemporary Ballet

Elizabeth Tolson’s ballet dress for Arch Contemporary Ballet

Michelle Cortese’s Log(Me)

Xuedi Chen and Pedro Oliveira’s x.pose

frog design’s Flare

frog design’s Scout

frog design’s Parasol

frog design’s Breathe

YesYesNo’s SuperFeel

Kate Hartman, Matt Richardson, and Becky Stern

After the show, I spoke to Roopa Vasudevan about the work she showed, Hate Couture:

I also spoke to Elizabeth Tolson about the ballet dresses she designed, which will debut at the Fall Gala for Arch Contemporary Ballet: