Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde spoke to us at Design Indaba in Cape Town about his designs for glow-in-the-dark roads and clothing that will literally expose dishonest bankers.
INTIMACY is high-tech fashion made out of smart e-foils which become transparent based on personal interactions.
INTIMACY is a high-tech fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments entitled ‘Intimacy White’ and ‘Intimacy Black’ are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people. Social interactions determine the garments? level of transparency, creating a sensual play of disclosure.
INTIMACY 2.0 features Studio Roosegaarde?s new, wearable dresses composed of leather and smart e-foils which are daringly perfect to wear on the red carpet. In response to the heartbeat of each person, INTIMACY 2.0 becomes more or less transparent.
Currently Studio Roosegaarde is selecting haute couture designers to develop the next INTIMACY 3.0 fashion line for men and women.
Specifications: 2010-2011. ?Black? and ?White? dresses, length 100cm, width 40 cm. Smart foils, wireless technologies, electronics, LEDs, copper and other media.
Client: Self-commissioned by Studio Roosegaarde. Guest designers: Daan Roosegaarde with V2_ and Maartje Dijkstra for INTIMACY 1.0, and Anouk Wipprecht for INTIMACY 2.0 with the team of Studio Roosegaarde.