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This Angry Birds dress caused quite a stir when Rovio CMO Peter Vesterbacka’s wife wore it to the Finnish Presidential Palace, but why hate on someone representing the game that has taken the world by storm? I mean, the dress is kind of ridiculous looking, and the bird’s eye is a bit too close to being mistaken for a nip slip, but anyone who would go to this length for promotion deserves at least a nod of approval.
Link –image credit: Matti Matikainen / MV Photos / Polaris.
This strangely elegant looking dress was fashioned from 700 condoms by Vietnamese graphic design student Nguyen Minh Tuan, in honor of World AIDS Awareness Day.
These condoms may no longer be useful for preventing STDs or pregnancy, but the fact that they glow in the dark means you’ll still be the center of attention even after the lights go out.
I have a few cute cocktail dresses but I don’t own a cocktail making dress. This one mixes White Russians but you have to work for that cocktail. Designed by Anouk Wipprecht, Marius Kintel, and Jane Tingley the DareDroid dress dispenses milk but will add a shot of vodka to those who agree to play a game of Truth or Dare and reveal intimate information.
The dress combines pneumatic technology with open-source hardware and human temperament to provide you with a freshly made White Russian cocktail.Your presence triggers the dress to produce milk, and your willingness to play a game of Truth and Dare combined with your natural charm, triggers the decision to give you more than just tepid milk.
It looks a tad clinical but how many outfits in your closet use medical technology, customized hardware and human temperament to provide you with a cocktail?
This article caught my eye because only a couple of days ago I explained to my daughter why pajamas were invented: because once upon a time we wanted to keep our expensive daytime clothing clean and wrinkle-free because it was difficult and destructive to clean them. An essay at Etsy explains more about the way clothing used to be. In 1900, a new dress could cost a couple month’s wages. Thanks to overseas labor, modern machinery, and synthetic fabrics, it only takes abut an hour to earn the price of a discount store dress.
As clothes have become cheaper, our clothing consumption has gone through the roof. In 1930, the average American woman owned an average of nine outfits. Today, we each buy more than 60 pieces of new clothing on average per year. Our closets are larger and more stuffed than ever, as we’ve traded quality and style for low prices and trend-chasing. In the face of these irresistible deals, our total spending on clothing has actually increased, from $7.82 billion spent on apparel in 1950 to $375 billion today. And the discounters are reaping the rewards.
Sixty pieces of new clothing a year? Really? Even my growing children don’t buy that much! Link -via Boing Boing
Who says that newspaper is out of style? Yuliya Kyrpo created this stunning dress, complete with a flowing peacock train, from 1,000 paper cranes folded from old newspapers: Link – via Inhabitat
Artist Valerie Lamontagne made dresses that respond to weather data transmitted wirelessly to them. The dresses respond by variously illuminating or vibrating:
the project is titled ‘peau d’ane’ after a fairy tale by charles perrault detailing three dresses made from the sky, moonbeams and sunlight. while each of these things is immaterial, lamontagne found ways to materialize them in her dresses. temperature, UV, solar radiation, wind speed & velocity, humidity and rain fall data is collected and sent to the dresses wirelessly, where micro-controllers relay info to internal circuitry. the sun dress has 128 LEDs which can light up depending on sun data, while the moon dress has 14 colour-modulating flowers to represent each phase of the moon cycle and the sky dress is imbued with 14 vibrating air pockets.
Link via DVICE | Artist’s Website
It looks like a Coke machine, right? It’s not. This is a picture of a woman wearing a special dress. Designer Aya Tsukioka’s made this dress for women who fear being attacked in public places:
By unfolding the sheet and stepping to the side of the street, she showed how a woman walking alone could hide behind it to outfox a potential attacker.
Aya Tsukioka unveils her design in Tokyo. She hopes it will help ease women’s fear of crime
At the link, you can see step-by-step photos of the dress transforming into a disguise.
Link via reddit | Photo: New York Times
Remember Britt Savage who made a dress out of tax forms featured on Neatorama before?
Well, that little post helped to propel her to Ripley’s Believe It or Not stardom (she’ll be included in the upcoming book "Incredibly Strange" – congrats).
Britt is at it again, this time with a wrapping paper and shredded ribbon. Like last time, she’ll auction the dress for charity: Link – Thanks Britt!
The Galaxy Dress is composed of 24,000 LEDs, each measuring two by two millimeters, attached to four layers of chiffon and forty layers of crinoline. The whole thing can be powered by a few iPod batteries for up to an hour. It’s one of the recent creations of CuteCircuit, a design firm specializing in “wearable technology.” The dress is now on permanent display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. More pictures at the link.
Link via Fast Company | CuteCircuit
Photo by Senor McGuire
Neatorama reader Britt Savage (who’s quite an excellent singer, you can check out her tracks at her MySpace page) sent us some pics of her first fashion creation: a dress made out of IRS tax forms!
Britt had her husband wrap her in duct tape then cut her out of it for the dress form. She then glued and taped the tax forms to make the dress.
Link – Thanks Britt, it looks like quite a "taxing" job!
It doesn’t get much more awesome or horrific or perhaps horrifically awesome, depending on your point of view, than this, folks!
Behold the Sock Monkey Couture Dress by Rebecca Yaker of Hazel and Melvin’s Room (yes, that’s her modeling her own creation). If you don’t like that, how about this one?
Link – via Craftastrophe and Rue the Day
Previously on Neatorama:
Recycling can be so sexy. Creator Jolis Paons pleated, sewed and glued this entire dress by hand. It’s gorgeous, but I have to admit, I would hope my number wasn’t visible on it.
Dress by VECONA, Photo by Frank Wiersema
Remember the squid hat that Jill and Miss C posted? Well, I found a dress to match: behold the octodress by VECONA, as displayed in their Cabaret Gothique fashion show in Bruges last month. Via jwz.
