Interactive Weather Dresses by Valerie Lamontagne!
There was a time when dresses were just dresses but as we are advancing into the future everyone is showing a keen interest in not letting dresses be just that. There have been so many examples of making our favorite garment interactive and designer Valerie Lamontagne has also hopped into the bandwagon. The Canadian artist has created a series of interactive dresses that change form based on weather patterns in her collection ‘peau d’ane’. The dresses symbolize the sun, moon and sky. She has achieved this by sending data like temperature, UV, solar radiation, wind speed & velocity, humidity and rain fall data wirelessly to the micro-controllers that communicate information to internal circuitry.
Each dress is designed in its own unique way; the sun dress has 128 LEDs, the moon dress has 14 color-modulating flowers each representing the phase of the moon cycle and 14 vibrating air pockets instilled in the sky dress. Personally, I think the sun dress looks the most wearable of the three creations.
[Designboom]
