Fashion designer Breeyn McCarney and I recently premiered our "Paper Dolls" dress collection at Toronto Alternative Fashion Week [FAT].
Through smartphones or browsers, viewers can enter the world of "Paper Dolls" by controlling the colour of one of the dresses by visiting http://colour.breeyn.com. The mobile controlled dress was designed with the expectation that it could be controlled by others who could see the dress live - say at a party.
Colour Change Paper Dress from Christopher Lewis on Vimeo.
The response has been overwhelming. The dress was even featured on the NatAndMarie.com webcast (jump to 42 minutes in) where viewers were able to control the colour of the dress and watch online.
Each dress was painstakingly hand-cut, and Breeyn and I enhanced the dresses with LEDs and microcontrollers. The resulting pieces represent a juxtaposition of high- and low-tech. [FAT] marked phase one of the collaboration between us; we continue to push the interactive aspect of the designs, which will culminate in a lookbook and video towards the end of summer '11.
More about Paper Dolls
Behind the Scenes
- Christopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis is Senior Flash Developer with Grey Canada. He experiments with real-world interaction and "getting off the screen". Christopher believes that the DIY community is essential to driving the development of mainstream technologies by making interactive hardware ubiquitous. His goal is to create approachable technology that is fun to use.
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