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Kudos to this new technology enabled fashion shirt that will free all of the gym rats from bragging about the gym not going in tandem with numbers on a treadmill. Simone Schramm, a German designer, has designed a garment that reacts to a wearer’s heart rate by expanding or contracting the wires woven into the garment’s fabric.
This Shape-Changing Shirt will display how your workout is going. Named “the muscle shirt,” the multilayered wearable changes color by pulling itself taut in response to the wearer’s heart rate, revealing the second layer below. The resulting tightness is meant to aid the wearer’s form and posture automatically
The mechanism goes like this: As the heart rate increases, the motor tightens the garment, revealing an interior fabric that’s color-coded to display the upper body’s muscle groups. Once the heart rate begins to fall, the tension relaxes, and the shirt’s original gray exterior fabric resumes its shape. Created within the last year, this tech enabled fashion garment is a work in progress, but a step forward for fitness wearables.
This Shape-Changing Shirt will display how your workout is going. Named “the muscle shirt,” the multilayered wearable changes color by pulling itself taut in response to the wearer’s heart rate, revealing the second layer below. The resulting tightness is meant to aid the wearer’s form and posture automatically
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The next realm in apparel fashion has emerged by introduction of a T-Shirt that looks different in design and colour if worn indoors and changes form when one steps out.
Isn’t it Surprising ?
Girggit, a start-up apparel organisation, have launched men's T-shirts made from super fine-combed cotton that change their design and colours in sunlight. The collection is designed by a team of young fashion designers and and they are priced between Rs 855 and Rs 1,155.
This is the changing face of apparel fashion industry where a consumer pays for one but buys two different products. T-Shirts are available on all the leading e-commerce portals
Isn’t it Surprising ?
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Girggit, a start-up apparel organisation, have launched men's T-shirts made from super fine-combed cotton that change their design and colours in sunlight. The collection is designed by a team of young fashion designers and and they are priced between Rs 855 and Rs 1,155.
This is the changing face of apparel fashion industry where a consumer pays for one but buys two different products. T-Shirts are available on all the leading e-commerce portals
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Fashion Forecast for Fabrics that are going to shape the collections this seasons can be summarized into three basic themes:
Rudimentary Refinement – which includes dry textures, natural/artificial alliances, exceptional simplicity, lively colour, powerful nature;
Gently Irreverent – subtle imperfections, implacable fineness, subversive freshness, graphic upsets;
Experimental Romanticism – artificial transparency, open structures, scientific spirit, boosted & piques;
Delve further into the fashion forecast details of the fabrics for S/S ’17 according to different category of products as follows:
Outwear
For summer coats - Fabrics with rich texture would include a modified nature, plastic raffia with unusual handles, design primitives like tribal tweed, dishevelled fringes and spongy cottons.
Tops
Tops and blouses will include naturally airy fabrics ,viscose or synthetics with a smooth fluid handle, soft languid cottony voiles, with softly washed finishing, featherweight silks.
Technical fabric
Performance fabrics will include cotton aspects and irregular-yarn effects for synthetics, talc-like handles.
Evening wear
Evening wear ensembles will revolve around Intermittent, wholly fine cut-yarns play on transparency.More simple designs will include large, irregular and multi-coloured stripes.
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Designers and exporters have witnessed an influx of softer hues as a major colour input. Versace in S/S ’16 showcased array of smart suits in ice pink while Dolce Gabanna showed varied suits in light peach at Bluemarine or gentle flowing garments in candy colours. Focusing on pastel hues, the S/S ’17 fashion trends gained grace; paving way for delicious blush pink, baby blue, mint green and lavender tones. Hottest colour for spring summer trends 2017 are Pastel tones - Pink, lilac, light blue and mint green.
Technology enhanced fashion market is still in its infancy. Brands have started designing fashion products around technology but only few customers buy them that too because of novelty factor attached to it while most of them ignores.
Eventually, retailers’ lack of enthusiasm for the technology-enhanced fashion products category but one thing is certain this category will be the future of fashion retail. However, the real revolution of technology-enhanced fashion is going to be modular, customisable,upgradable products so that it is embraced by the consumers.
Few questions that arises in favour of innovatively designed fashion products are How can brands continue to grow if they don’t launch new products on a regular basis? How can consumers stay on trend without buying new products and what can be done with the “old” products besides dumping them?
There are other benefits too .The consumer only pays to upgrade the product in stages so, unlike with luxury products, brands can create a long lasting quality product without high upfront costs. The risk of product redundancy is eliminated which means consumers will be more likely to buy a new innovative product.
Eventually, retailers’ lack of enthusiasm for the technology-enhanced fashion products category but one thing is certain this category will be the future of fashion retail. However, the real revolution of technology-enhanced fashion is going to be modular, customisable,upgradable products so that it is embraced by the consumers.
Few questions that arises in favour of innovatively designed fashion products are How can brands continue to grow if they don’t launch new products on a regular basis? How can consumers stay on trend without buying new products and what can be done with the “old” products besides dumping them?
There are other benefits too .The consumer only pays to upgrade the product in stages so, unlike with luxury products, brands can create a long lasting quality product without high upfront costs. The risk of product redundancy is eliminated which means consumers will be more likely to buy a new innovative product.
Africa fashion week slated to be held in Nigeria on 1st July 2016 will feature Textile and Garment Manufacturing conference - first ever conference of its kind in the country, where industry experts will gather under one roof, to discuss and discover the potentials within the fashion industry for Nigeria.
The conference aims to highlight innovative systems that may create a powerful economic base for Nigeria, as fashion has the capacity to create jobs, promote creativity and individualism while providing social security.
There will be a range of topics to be discussed in the conference such as Job Creation in the Garment Manufacturing Industry.How do manufacturers deal with the infrastructure issues and still make profit New Channels of E-commerce in the Fashion Show is Textile Manufacturing a Viable Option? How can we tap into the skills of the foreign market Retailing and Setting up a Fashion Business in Nigeria (The Dynamics) and Different Financing Options.
Africa Fashion Week Nigeria, founded by Nigeria’s own Ronke Ademiluyi, has conquered the whole of Europe with the London Version of the project: Africa Fashion Week London. Africa.
The Nigerian Edition, Africa Fashion Week Nigeria,will celebrate its third anniversary in July. The show is persistently working for the development of young fashion designers of Africa by giving them subsidised runaways and visibility while enabling them to convert their talent into economic self-sustainability analysis.
The conference aims to highlight innovative systems that may create a powerful economic base for Nigeria, as fashion has the capacity to create jobs, promote creativity and individualism while providing social security.
There will be a range of topics to be discussed in the conference such as Job Creation in the Garment Manufacturing Industry.How do manufacturers deal with the infrastructure issues and still make profit New Channels of E-commerce in the Fashion Show is Textile Manufacturing a Viable Option? How can we tap into the skills of the foreign market Retailing and Setting up a Fashion Business in Nigeria (The Dynamics) and Different Financing Options.
Africa Fashion Week Nigeria, founded by Nigeria’s own Ronke Ademiluyi, has conquered the whole of Europe with the London Version of the project: Africa Fashion Week London. Africa.
The Nigerian Edition, Africa Fashion Week Nigeria,will celebrate its third anniversary in July. The show is persistently working for the development of young fashion designers of Africa by giving them subsidised runaways and visibility while enabling them to convert their talent into economic self-sustainability analysis.
