A lot of dress designers are going green with new eco-friendly fiber and material, however, the designers who choose to make amazing trendy dresses out of waste or alternate sources and also to pass a social or environmental message are perhaps the most creative of them all.  There are a lot of innovations in the world of garment designing to create some of the most fashionable attires of all times, which apparently have their sources in toilet tissue paper, cans, wrappers, plastic bags amongst other quirky products.  Here are the most innovative gowns that have created a buzz on the fashion circuit:

A Gown Made Out of Toilet Paper

One look at this pretty detailed wedding gown made in baby pink and white and you are bound to fall in love with it.  But behold, for it is made out of toilet paper!  Looking at this gown no one would ever think that it is entirely crafted by putting rolls of pink and white toilet paper together, but yes that is so.

Attire Made out of Balloons in a Twisted Style

These gorgeous dresses have a certain dream-like quality about them with their symmetry and spherical detailing.  One close look at these outfits, and you will realize that these are colored balloon that have been twisted and put together to create amazing gowns that can only be worn while standing, as sitting down would ‘burst’ the dress from its seams!

A Telephone Book Creation

Just imagine all those telephone books/directories piling up ever year without any purpose in life.  Here is a designer who finally gave those somber phonebooks a new lease of life with this super chic frilly dress that is entirely crafted out of the pages from a telephone book.  It has been hand made with simple resources, which makes it a work of art.

Rubber Glove Gown

Susie MacMurray from Britain has decided to give a bride an elegant environmentally-friendly wedding gown that is entirely made by putting together 1400 rubber gloves (that have been inverted of course!) to create a stunning designer piece.

 Condom Gowns to promote Safe Sex and AIDS Awareness

This gown might seem a little strange when you become aware of it’s origins, but it was actually a part of an awareness campaign in China by a condom factory to promote safe sex and AIDS awareness.  This gown looks absolutely amazing and no one can make out that it is made completely out of condoms.

Can Fashion

There is so much waste generated from all those drinking cans that are disposed and not even recycled.  However, this Can Dress has proved that cans can be worn, even though it is not for long!

Priceless Dress

This dress is actually the $100,000 cash price of the 50 Million Lottery Giveaway. This priceless dress is made out of authentic British Pound paper currency!

Wearable computing: the trend of modern day world

The people today like speed and innovative products and that is why the companies are trying hard to please the people. Technology has grown leaps and bounds and it has given some incredible products to the people that make their life easy and interesting. These products are such that once you use them you will become habitual of using them in your day to day life because they extend convenience which is very important in today’s lifestyle. People now-a-days not only use technology but they also like to wear it as it is stylish and very advanced in nature.

Wearable computing is becoming the latest trend these days and major tech companies are introducing new products for the people. Wearable computing is not very old but it sure has a lot of takers now and has managed to impress a lot of people and seeing the response many companies have come forth with some pretty good ideas for wearable computing. People like to wear technology as it is stylish and it helps them to do tasks within a matter of seconds. The latest news in the area of wearable computing is that Google and the popular apparel brand such as Nike are investing millions in the concept as they think that it really has a bright future.

What’s ahead in wearable computing?

Wearable computing is touching every aspect of human life such as the runners these days use sensors in their running shoes so that they are able track the distance covered by them and similarly the people who happen to be insomniacs use the wristbands in order to keep a track of the sleeping habits. The main thing to understand here is that wearable computing is everywhere because it extends a feature of convenience in the activity which used to be tiresome before. Apart from the popularity this business has been getting it still remains quite niche. Jennifer Darmour who happens to be user experience designer for Artefact in Seattle wishes to change the niche status of wearable computing.

Jennifer has come up with an innovative idea that can change the face of wearable computing completely. She has designed a Pilate’s shirt which has the ability to supervise the positions of the human body. This shirt can tell the user via a vibration that is his posture is wrong. Jennifer has the confidence in this new invention by her and believes that people will also like this gadget which does not look like a typical gadget. The best thing about the Pilates shirt is that it does not give the look of a gadget that is worn by a person instead it looks like a normal shirt but has many more advanced features.

Jennifer is all set to inform the people about this new product in the Interactive festival. Artefact has introduced many innovative products in the past as well such as the novel printer which has the ability to easily connect with phones, computers and cameras. Jennifer Darmour has noticed three challenges and they were found in almost all the wearable computing gadgets. The first one is that they are generally made from hard materials and not flexible materials that are easy to wear. The data derived by these gadgets is massive which is very tough to take out useful results. The interactions made through these gadgets are often disrupted which makes the user to stop and adjust the device every now and then. Jennifer wishes to overcome all these three challenges and make a device that is better in every manner.

And, The Countdown Began

After ghostly depiction of few minutes, the show was on its crown when Iris Van Herpen uncovered her eleven new outfits designed and fabricated with the use of evolving digital technology comprising a gown fabricated from laser sintering and two 3D-printed dresses. Iris Van Herpen mentioned in a statement that her work exploits ne technology and is inspired by abstract ideas. Dutch designer also believes that it is greatly affected by the era when clothed designed today will be imprinted with 3D printing. Major attraction of Voltage theme by Iris Van Herpen is skirt-and-cape combo in line with number of small white anemone like nodules.

Neri Oxman, Lab professor at MIT Media also designed this dress together with Iris Van Herpen whereas popular 3D-printing company Stratasys fabricated it. What is remarkable about this line of 3D-printed outfits is that it has been printed on Object Connex, which is new array of printer paying ways for single model for integrating different materials. This is the leading cause why these dressed are soft and supple embellished with section that look as if skeleton structure. According to Iris Herpen, this ability to differ softness and flexibility inspired designer to produce “second skin” to cover body and act as armor-in-motion.

What’s More

Some more models in bulk wearing tightly curved bashes sported remaining looks of theme “Voltage”. Furthermore, explicitly designed gown adorned with transparent grass blades add element to this theme. Second collaboration with Belgian Brand Materialize and Julia Koerner, an Australian architect produced cocktail dress of transparent black shade is designed with the use of laser sintering and advanced fabrication technologies. In general, the fabrication technique used for designing 3D-printed dresses exploit laser for fusing particles of resin and plastic. This dress appears that it is an upshot of vey adroit hand art made by fusing threads in bead of sintering machine. Stephen Jones has designed hats whereas United Nude of Rem Koolhaas owns the credit of elite shoe line. 3D printed dresses are made at Materialize with same attention and care as designer aspires to give.

In recent years, 3D printing has grown ubiquitous that is probably the innovation of Van Herpen’s forays into 3D printed couture will diminish. However, it seems that fashion designer aim to drive profoundly into the era of upcoming digital fabrication to implement her technical approach together with wild creative outlook. It feels overwhelming to see Iris Van Herpen refusing to relax on laurels. Complete line of Herpen’s 3D printing outfits is meant to make your body livelier in a natural way. This reveals an addiction to persistently escaping reality with the use of digital entertainment. Thus has now evolved as a significant part of life and can be a decisive segment to create something beautiful.

In Asia, women with larger eyes are generally considered more beautiful than women with smaller eyes though only a very small percentage of ladies in the region are born with naturally large eyes. This need has expressed itself in bizarre ways like cartoonish lenses that make eyes look bigger though many women have also undergone surgery to make their eyes look larger than they naturally are. This fetishistic obsession is the central point around which the designer’s LED Eyelash project revolves.

The product feature a mercury filled inclination sensor that can sense the movement of the eyelids and the pupils of the wearer. The sensors make the fake eyelashes flicker according to the movement of the wearer’s eyes and head. The glow from the LED lights allow the wearer’s eyes to look bigger from a distance though we’re not entirely sure people would notice how small or big one’s eyes are when they have a bunch of lights flashing around their peepers. Park claims that the LED Eyelash is as simple to put on as a pair of fake lashes and can be removed just as easily well. What park hasn’t disclosed however, is whether the lashed interfere with one’s vision and whether having strong lights so close to one’s eyes is safe or not.

Satirically created video of ‘Gangman style’ by the famous South Korean rapper and singer PSY has become viral soon after its release and the height of its popularity has even influenced the designers across the globe. The mixture of different locations where PSY has shot his video gives a more aesthetic look to the whole sequence. Be it a beach or an elevator or a sauna or bizarrely the stable; all the locations chosen by PSY displays his sense of humor and even his vision towards the variety of life. The rhythmic chorus singing the hymn “Hey, sexy lady” and the slick beats giving company to the music are all enough to give funky and invigorating ideas to any designer.

What designers are learning from “Gangaman style”?

Designers are always in look of something unique and most importantly the ‘latest’. No doubt, PSY’s Gangman style is the buzz these days and the bright colors with sexiness throughout the video are fascinating the designers all over the world.  The silliness and the perkiness maintained in the video is the major connect of the Gangman style with the designers who see the entire concept with an artist’s eye.

Although the video shows the lifestyle and the humor that prevail in South-Korean sub-sects, the style of dressing and the way of making things playful is universally being applied by the designers recently.

The sleek, flashy and brightly colored sets shown in the video are quite appealing to the designers. Moreover, the fantastically created exteriors with chrome, steel and plastic gives a novel chance to the designers to create something matching to it.

Even designers are not keeping any stone unturned and they are now ready to do experiments with humorous designs as well. Humor is the main theme of the Gangman style and the application of humor in designs is the new mantra these days. Fancy yet bold and absurd designs with weird color combinations are ‘in’ fashion world.

“Hey, sexy lady” chant has also its unique impact over the world designers as sexuality is the one thing that sells the most in the design world. The sexually-driven products are highly favored among by the consumers, though no one acknowledges publically.

What all is available with Gangaman style designs?

Gangman style shoes, PSY look-alike pendants, PSY goggles, Gangman-inspired nail art, tattoos, fhas-drives and even gangman-style cakes and coffees are quite a rage among the consumers.

Designers are not only giving the Gangman style to the regular stuff, but the things are beyond imagination are also included in the list of Gangman-inspired stuff.

New things that a designer must learn from Gangman Style

The unique combination of humor, color and sexuality is the one that inspires the design world, but the most crucial thing that Gangman teaches to the designers is how to sell a product by making it unique. The PSY’s Gangman Style video has become immensely popular not only among the youngsters, but also among the elder people. Although PSY has not adopted any marketing strategy to promote his video, but the promotion is done by the people who saw it. Even the West Indies cricket player Chris Gayle couldn’t control him in the ground and did the Gangman Style on his team’s triumph.

Designers must learn that the end product should be mass appealing rather than making it for a small section of society. If the designer’s product would fascinate the common people, it would certainly be a hit like Gangman Style. So designers, use your creativity for making something that is for all!

Fashion design is a form of art. It essentially involves application of design and aesthetics to garments and accessories associated with it like footwear, jewelry, belts, clutch bags so on and so forth. The trend these days is to basically, create designs that are aesthetically appealing as well as wearable in day to day life and at times wearable on certain occasions. A lot of thought is put by designers in creating each and every piece of garment.

A lot of factors have been taken into consideration. The current fashion scene, peoples taste, climate, colors and garment being used, the purpose of creating a certain design. Sometimes designs are driven by fashion and at times designers drive the trends. The fashion market works both ways. Worldwide fashion has been broadly categorized into three main categories:

• Haute Coture: Until 1950′s each garment was made and manufactured basis on made to measure or Haute couture. The term is essentially a French word. In a way the garment was created for a specific client. The trend is still very much there, the garment is customized for a certain consumer and is made usually with good quality expensive fabric and also sewed  with extreme attention to detail and finish. Look and fit usually supersede everything else in this case.
• Ready to wear
• Mass Market

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Fashion in the present age has become versatile like never before. Designers today are unimaginably creative. They are dressing people totally out of the box. There was a trend when designers were creating designs that were meant purely for the ramp and just not suitable for day to day wear. However, designers today though creating out of the box designs with an edge are at the same time ensuring that their designs are wearable in day to day life. That is what is called intelligent fashion. Off late technology has indeed become a vital part of our day to day lives and technology is largely present in all spheres of our life. We are using technology at home, in our kitchen, in our offices even in our clothes. It is kind of inseparable from the human species. It is no surprise that even garment designs are these days largely inspired by technology.

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In recent times a whole new breed of designers have come up whose design sense is totally inspired by technology.  As they say, geeks always remain geeks. Now how does this apply here. Well geeks are present in all fields besides engineering as well. Fashion design is not a secluded field when it comes to garment design. These people are so tech-savvy that even their designs are inspired by technology. There are garments designed these days inspired by popular social networking websites. The dresses are quite stylish and wearable. The dress has been designed using the same color code that the website depicts. Besides, it also has the site monogram and name very stylishly embodied into the dress design. This range has dresses inspired by websites like Yahoo, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Mega Upload, Google, MSN and DeviantArt. The dresses are quite elegant and fashionable. The dress inspired by twitter has a little bird around the waistline,YouTube inspired dress has a time tracker and the iconic F of the facebook flows down from the dress inspired by Facebook. All these website inspired dresses are elegant flowing evening gowns which are quite sexy and stylish and have colors and prints inspired from the websites.

There are tech-print designs also which are in vogue these days. For example, dresses with graphic prints, dresses that use nails, zips, screws are all inspired by some or the other form of technology.

With the prominence on Halloween having for all time is about how you appear on the hours of darkness, I assume that the extra Halloween costume thoughts that you can have a superior gaze at the better. For this meticulous evening’s partying fewer is undeniably not more. With all of the unbelievable choices accessible to you at a few clicks of a mouse there has by no means been an easier moment in time to actually get yourself the ideal costume and create a bona fide bang.

I find it pretty astonishing that we celebrate Halloween in a number of ways, shape or outward appearance for centuries. It seems hard to seize every now and then that, people as long ago as the prehistoric Celts had assured beliefs that enabled them to rejoice the end of summer and to greet in the winter. The group of people would get in concert and enjoy feasting and carousing of a variety relevant to them even then.

Halloween fanatics will acquaint with you – you just can’t triumph a Halloween Costume Contest with a store-bought costume!

[box_dark]The ‘Cereal’ Killer[/box_dark] Dress in your rattiest sweatshirt and jean and use sizzling glue to wrap your garments with a dozen or so of those single-serving boxes of muesli. And then fix knives in the boxes and copiously spray yourself with blood.

[box_dark]Wad of Gum[/box_dark] Dress in a brilliant pink pair of nightgown and wear a identical hat and impressive to cover your shoes so you’re pink from skull to toe. Then assault a frivolous child’s chair to your hat and be dressed in it on your skull. You’re a wad of gum stuck under the chair!

[box_dark]Superman[/box_dark]  No one can refuse to go along with not donning this outfit. Superman has been part of every person’s survival being the superhero that saved the globe from evil. From cartoon strips, to movies and vigorous TV series, nearly everyone was frightened by the power and force that comes with this guy from Krypton. The Superman set of clothes is considered to be one of the most adored conjure dress. It is a blue latex flying suit with comprehensive musculature on the arms, chest and legs wherein molded froth were inserted on the set of clothes to give this outcome.

[box_dark]Batman and Robin[/box_dark]  There are a lot of types of the Batman and Robin super hero fancy costume and it could be very overwhelming selecting one. On the other hand, you can without difficulty search from beginning to end the Internet which fancy dress catches your fancy. There is the preliminary Batman halloween set of clothes that comes in latex suit colored gray with a Bat logo in facade side, a masquerade, black usefulness belt, cape and gloves and black boot covers.

[box_dark]Wolverine[/box_dark] This human being is at this position an icon when it comes to marvelous heroes for the most part for the reason that of the achievement of his film and comic personality. Going away to dress up functions irksome a Wolverine suit will without doubt be familiar with the bring into play of typical yellow and blue padded suit. It will come with walking boot tops, belt and foam mask. More than a few even come up to with replicas of the claws that Wolverine is well – known of having to hurriedly slice from beginning to end his foes.

The world is a strange place to live in and the people are stranger. However, if you want to know about the strangest things, they are the inventions and creations of these people. Find out below the 10 strangest shoes in the world. Be prepared as your preconceived notions about shoes are going to change here. You are about to see some funny, innovative and even disturbing shoe designs.

Cardboard Shoes

There is nothing strange in the looks of the shoe. It is the material of which it is made up of that makes it to the list of strangest shoes. Made up of cardboard, you ought not to wear it during inclement weather if you want it to remain fine.

Hot Wheels Shoes

They look like hot wheels but are actually not made up of them. They seem to give the necessary entertainment to little kids as well. Moreover, they look cute too.

The Gameboy Shoe

You must have heard of getting entertainment on the go. However, you possibly have not heard of a shoe that contains a device to entertain you on the move. A portable entertainment system is right here for you. Remove the same from the shoe and start playing.

The High-Chair Heels

This pair of shoes resembles a modern high-chair. When you wear them, you become 6 inches taller. The dangerous part is that your feet sit almost vertically on the shoes. Wear them if you want to make a bold statement but be extremely careful.

The Claw Shoes

People who like Gothic fashion would surely love them. However, they ought to walk almost barefooted with this pair of talon looking shoes.

The Center Heel Corkscrew Shoe

This pair of shoes is strange in every respect. Firstly, the heel is not placed where we normally find it. Secondly, the heel resembles a corkscrew. Thirdly, the overall design of the shoe is very different. Lastly, you have to be a trained acrobat in order to be able to walk easily wearing it.

The Landscape Shoe

This is for nature lover. This is a piece of art that ought to be preserved. This pair of shoes would look better in a showcase than on your feet.

The Pant Shoe

It is actually difficult to make out whether it is a pair of pants or pair of shoes. It could well be a mixture of both. It is better to decide yourself. Remember to check the pros and cons before buying it.

The Rat Shoe

This pair of shoes resembling dead rats is perfect for Halloween. However, they look quite disturbing too and not advisable for people who are weak at heart.

Tarantula Shoe

Apart from being strange, it is also the most dangerous pair of shoes. Considering the height of the heel, it is absolutely not advisable for people with weak ankle. The presence of a live tarantula inside it makes is scarier.

It is true that picking anyone for yourself would not be easier but if you do, be assured of grabbing eyeballs towards your feet.