galaxy dress

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The Galaxy Dress is the center piece of the "Fast Forward: Inventing the Future" exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The museum is celebrating its 75 years and has commissioned the GalaxyDress for their permanent collection.

The GalaxyDress provides a spectacular and mesmerizing effect being embroidered with 24,000 color LEDs, it is the largest wearable display in the world. Constructed using the smallest full-color LEDs that are flat like paper and measuring only 2 by 2 mm.

Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, the designers of this dress have constucted thus a fantasitc job. The dress pulses as flows. There is no particular reaction from external factors but the way this dress dances and plays with the lighting is amazing.
It is almost like a dance itself in time with a tune played along with it. the video best captures the way the LEDs move and play.
i would like to see this in person as in video its hard to see the full effect.

Francesca and Ryan both hold a Master in Interaction Design from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. As researchers in Ivrea Francesca and Ryan developed projects for Sony, Hitachi, Telecom Italia, and Motorola. The projects ranged from interface design to service design and product development.

Francesca is an architect and graphic designer, and has worked as fashion designer for Esprit in Germany and Valentino in Italy. Francesca is an expert in the development of telecommunication services, user interface design, and textile engineering.

Ryan is an artist and anthropologist who has worked as art director for Signal Interactive and ASAP Media Services in United States. Ryan is specialized in motion graphics, computer programming, and wireless networks, he also worked as film/video director specializing in the creation of future scenarios.

These have been hand embroidered on the layer of silk such that it lets the LED fabric to stretch while behaving like normal fabric in lightness and fluidity. Several iPod batteries power this dress. These have enough charge to keep you glowing for a good 30 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX9FOGFxN9A&feature=player_embedded

i personally dont think that this could be the best design for the actions of this outfit. the way the lights are crafted is really beautiful with the flowing waterlike movements but the shape of the dress doesnt complement the LEDs.
the fabric is suppost to look like it is really thin and flexible but the model does not portray this outlook.