Clothes That DO!

If you are serious about looking for a fashion Do, well here you go. Clothes that do things autonomously of you. This dress, called Vilkas by XS Labs changes shape over time. The dress has a hemline that raises and lowers itself over a thirty second interval. The dress transforms every thirty seconds from being nearly tea-length to revealing the knee and lower thigh. This "magical" dress is felt and contains hand-stitched Nitinol wires that contract. Once heated, the shape-memory wire pulls the cloth together, creating a cinching or wrinkling effect.





Joanna Berzowska
Berzowska's Intimate Memory Clothing Line

Another shape-changing garment by Berzowska and these other geniuses at XS Labs is the Kukkia dress. This piece is decorated with three animated flowers to frame the neckline. Each flower opens and closes over a 15 second interval. The flowers are created with felt and silk petals that provide some rigidity and integrate the same stitiched Nitinol wire as in the Kukkia dress. When heated, the wire shrinks and pulls the petals together, closing the flower. As it cools down, the rigidity of the felt counteracts the shape of the wire, allowing the flower to open. And they say that Roland Mouret's clothes have sculptural elements!