Today is the first gathering of Fashion Camp at ITP in 2009. There was a good turn out at the event, composed of designers, electronic geeks and people interested in fashion. This is definitely not at the level of Bryant Park yet. But this is going to get main stream sooner than later.
I went to a workshop titled “Soft Circuits” by Alicia Gibbs who got Bug Labs to sponsor some electronics to make a cool LED wearable circuit. This is the one I made with the help of Diana Eng:
This is a fish made by Becky Stern:
This is Becky Stern Talking about circuits:
This is an image of a fashion show of wearable technologies after lunch.
More info about ITP:
http://www.fashioncamp.org/
http://www.dianaeng.com/
calendar of events:
http://fcnyc.splatcamp.com/