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Add the Arduino powered laces and Kayne, Weezy and Ricseasons  come to mind as  a few people we can see sporting these.

Check out these creative creations by Creative Recreation.

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MUST…HAVE…THESE…

Fiber Optic Heels??!!!  Jimmy Choo, please sit down.

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It was a battle of the wearable outfits on last night’s MTV Movie Awards. Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera both sported an LED design and literaly lit up the stage. At first glance we weren’t sure if Perry was keeping up with her last wearable design, but upon closer inspection she was just keeping it simple. Light up daisy dukes and pink top? Why not! Glitter is so passé.

Xtina may have taken the top and very naughty position however. While a bit more subtle with just a simple white light in the palm of each fingerless glove, it was the growing heart crotch shot that may have gotten your attention. Considering her new album name – Bionic – we may see a lot more wearable designs from Xtina. We cannot wait!

Check out both performances and outfits after the jump!

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Valérie Lamontagne of Electromode has a fabulous DIY LED Dress on sale for $250 Canadian Dollars. The symetrical or asymetrical designs use sensors that respond to changes in light, temperature or acceleration and activate a series of lights on the dress.

The kit includes:

• Dress pattern and graphics printed on 100% cotton
• Lining pattern and circuit guides printed on Polyester Blend
• Conductive zipper
• Programmed lilypad arduino
• 15 LEDs
• Conductive thread
• Batteries and charger included

We think this is a great project for students or rising enthusiasts to have hands-on experience in inetegrating werable technology into clothing.  This will inspire and hopefully motivate those DIY-ers to create other innovative wearable designs.

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Janet Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc., a California based business that creates custom illuminated clothing.  With over 10 years of experience, she founded the business to create her ideal position as a light-up clothing designer and it has taken her further than she ever anticipated. With a growing celebrity clientele that includes Kanye West, MIA, Daft Punks and Katy Perry (just to name a few) Hansen has mastered illuminated clothing for the stage performance. Janet is a one stop shop for light up clothing.  She makes her own controller circuits and seems to have a real pulse on making solid light-oriented wearables. Her company offers everything from ready-to-wear limited edition pieces like hats, ties and bras,  to more Lady Gaga-esque custom orders that fulfill your every visual need.  

Interested in learning how to light up your own pieces? Check out Janet’s Instructables on a LED and EL based designs.

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What’s a wearable upgrade?  It’s taking any clothing or accessory and adding some element of wearable technology to the design.  Still not clear? Take Rhianna’s Alexandre Vauthier jacket and dress illuminated and developed by innovative fashion designer  Mortiz Waldemeyer .

The couture dress uses a combination of compressed gas systems  and video capable LED circuits to light up the stage (and her dress) with a moving light sequence . 

Just a week after Katy Perry’s CuteCircuit gown, Rhianna may have upped the ante. 

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Biggest red carpet faux pas: wearing  the same outfit as someone else.  Katy Perry, of course, had nothing to worry at last night’s MET Gala.  Infact, the spotlight was on her CuteCircuit couture gown with flowing silk chiffon and over 3000 LEDs creating a rainbow of colours shimmering around her.  

Our vote: the best way to show up the celeb-competition at the Oscars of Fashion.

Read more about CuteCircuit after the jump!

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We have the privilege of being one of the featured designers at the Geek Artists/Green Innovators Festival fashion show in Pittsburgh PA today.

The fashion show will take place tonight at 9:00pm at the Glass Center in the downtown Pittsburgh art district.

If you are too late to make the entourage, check out the live stream provided by Vivo Live.

We were at the carnival the other night fishing for ideas off of the Twirl-a-Whirl buzz and funnel-cake rush.   Just when we were commenting on how lame everyone was, we spotted a random guy at the snack bar with a pair of Jezign light-up shoes.

We first heard about these a couple of years ago on Talk2MyShirt and the shoe’s style came across as  impressive.  The style has a real urban flare and the shoes look good without the lights.  That’s should be step number one in any serious wearable product.  The technology should be molded around a good design.

After doing some research into Jezign, we were impressed to learn that they were available through Finish Line Shoes, a large shoe retailer that’s found across the country in almost every mall.  This is a major accomplishment for a wearable product in this early age.

The designer of Jezign is a former Howard University student and the company has filed several patents for wearable-oriented fashions.

We went looking for these shoes in the stores but unfortunately, we could never find them at any Finish Line in the DC area.  We were also unable to find the shoes on a site search.  The site store is online but it is also unavailable.   There are  few on eBay starting at $150.00 – $10  more than the original $140 as listed in 2008.

Are these  classics already?  We may have to snag a pair before eBay get’s out of control.

Inspired by the French fairy tale “Peau d’Âne”, Valerie Lamontagne is taking interactive wearables to new fashionable heights. The tale is of a widowed king who promises his dying wife to only marry a woman equal in her beauty and attributes.  The princess was the only qualified candidate and fearing a strange living situation, conspires with her fairy godmother to request a list of impossible demands of the King: a dress the color of the sky, a dress the color of the moon, a dress as bright as the sun, and finally, the hide of his marvelous donkey.

No gold-pooping donkeys here, but the dresses are friggin’ fierce. Lamontagne turns fantastical ideas into wearable creations using real time reactions to changing weather conditions.

The “Sky Dress” uses 14 tiny fans  linked to a  weather station to respond to the variation in wind speed and direction. Pockets of air expand in the parachute fabric to create an image of wind movement.

The “Moon Dress” conveys the changing phases of the moon using 14 glowing flowers that change color accordingly.

The 128 LED’s react to fluctuations in ultraviolet and solar radiation in the “Sun Dress”.  The lights flicker on and off, imitating the varying intensity of the sun.

Our vote: we likey.

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