Blocked Out: 10 Closed & Abandoned Hat-Making Factories
The golden age of hats – what George Costanza called a “bald paradise” - has long passed and along with it, so have hundreds of huge hat-making factories. ...
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Urban Dog Tags: Wear City Grids Around Your Neck & The World
Like giant-sized fingerprints, urban grid patterns are unique to each city - this project turns that individuating property into an wearable asset, allowing you to hang you hometown or favorite ...
Dress Down: Wild Women’s Dresses Made of Trash, Trees & More
State of Dress is part fashion, part art and part personal mission, an attempt to capture the essence of all fifty States in the US through a series of site-specific dress designs tailored to ...
Urban Wraps: Neighborhood Scarfs Make Videos Wearable
Cut. Print it. That's a wrap. One section (or scene) at a time, these designers are turning areas of Brooklyn into fashionable products that abstract the motion and colors of a place, converting ...
Ziggurat Hat: Deconstructing The DEVO Energy Dome
Designed by New Wave band DEVO and worn in concert for 30+ years, the geeky DEVO Energy Dome has emerged as a key touchstone of late 20th century pop culture. ...
Binder Clip Handbag: Office Product-Inspired Tote Purse
It is a familiar trope these days, but fun nonetheless: take a common object, tweak the scale and transform the materials, and you get a new item that has a recognizable shape but a distinct new ...
Can’t Be Shaved: 12 Abandoned Barber Shops
This abandoned barber shop triple-quartet collectively echoes with the metallic chattering of honed clippers tempered by hazy undertones of warm conversation. ...
High Tech to High Fashion: Upscale 3D-Printed Designs
Pioneers in 3D-printed fashion are showing off the capabilities of rapid-prototyping technology with dresses, hats, shoes, swimwear and jewelry. Machines layer buildable materials like nylon or ...
Stealth Wear: Counter-Surveillance Fashion Protects Privacy
The rise of surveillance technology, including face recognition software, drones, body scans and cell phones as GPS locators, has resulted in some creative attempts to elude it. Designer Adam ...
Invisible Apparel: Material-Free Dresses Made of Light
Combining light art photography and high fashion, these show-stopping, runway-worthy gowns are invisible until completed, and manufactured without physical material. Atton Conrad sets the ...
