and Polaire
3D printed electric chain

source: anoukwipprechtnl

What does fashion lack? “Microcontrollers” according to Dutch based fashiontech designer and innovator Anouk Wipprecht. As she is working in the emerging field of “fashion-tech”; a rare combination of fashion design combined with engineering, science and interaction/user experience design, she created an impressive body of tech-enhanced designs bringing together fashion and technology in an unusual way. She creates technological couture; with systems around the body that tend towards artificial intelligence; projected as ‘host’ systems on the human body, her designs move, breath, and react to the environment around them.

Part futuristic, part anime-meets-high fashion, her aesthetics are set apart from more utilitarian wearables (which are all about function) and can be considered artistic creations in themselves. Many of her designs have been exhibited in exhibitions as well as demonstrated during events and showcases. In Anouk’s designs the technology creates the aesthetics as opposed to simply enhancing a function which is hidden. Keen on showing the nuts and bolts of the garments (often the valves and mechanisms are displayed on the outside, we witness the designs creating their own unique forms of interaction, movement and meaning.

Wipprecht is artist, designer, curator and lecturer (Netherlands, Los Angeles, San Francisco, China, Austria) in electronic couture, worked for names as the Black Eyed Peas, SuperBowl, Eurovision, with work and interviews featured in international magazines. She is the brainchild/curator of the TECHNOSENSUAL ‘Where Fashion meets Technology’ exhibition, with attached Artist in Residency program to stimulate the grow of fashiontech projects coupling fashion designers and engineers together, that took place in Vienna/ Austria over the summer of 2012 and attracted 32.000 visitors in a two and a half month time span. She recently released the TECHNOSENSUAL exhibition catalog in collaboration with partner monochrom (AT) which gives a glimpse in the background concept and structure of the exhibition as well as representing featured artists participating in the exhibition.

Anouk is currently based in Vienna/Austria, and travels between Amsterdam (NL) Los Angeles (USA) San Francisco (USA) and Montreal (CA).
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source: adafruit

Instead of keeping the design process to herself, 3D printed fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht wants to invent a dress with over 150 different elements, all created by makers around the world.

“Join our open source element dress!” In collaboration with Polaire, Wipprecht is inviting people to design these 150 parts which will be connected all together into one dress.

Wipprecht will provide a base file of a simple element, which is available for download through Tinkercad, a 3D modeling app from Autodesk. How the dress takes shape is up to you!

To get started you may download the file, and remodel the element. You can add some extras on top and create a whole new feature. You can also just simply print it in a cool color or material. You are encouraged to add things that “can communicate a message for you, whether that is a symbol like a small heart, typographical like a text or a name, or something more abstract, architectural or mechanic.” according to Wipprecht….
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source: v2nl

Anouk started her fashion education at the age of 14. Her interest in fashion lies in exploring the extent to which we experience fashion (emotional, intellectual and sensual aspects) and how we might be able to accomplish a higher state of connectivity between the body and our clothing. By specializing herself in fashion & technology she started to create little stories about a world where people are looking for both a physical as a psychological connection with their garments, and to design towards this feeling by combining different platforms that can trigger our behavior.

Through this fascination she started experimenting with combining fashion and technology 3 years ago by attending workshops, and moved for a year to Sweden for the study “body, fashion & technology” at the Malmo university where she worked on Arduino-based application possibilities and smart fabric concepting. Later on she gained deeper knowledge of the fashiontech field by assisting Sabine Seymour in Vienna, Austria. In 2010, she graduated at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, where she collaborated with Aduen Darriba (interaction designer) on the project Technosensual.
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source: modelmayhem

Dutch based designer Anouk Wipprecht is working in the emerging field of “fashionable technology”; a rare combination of sartorial knowhow combined with engineering smarts and style, she has in a very short period created an impressive body of tech-enhanced designs bringing together fashion and technology in an unusual way. She creates technological couture; with background in fashion design combined with engineering, science and interaction design, she creates systems around the body that tend towards artificial intelligence; projected as ‘host’ systems on the human body, her designs move, breath, and react to the environment around them.
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source: glamourlandtv

Anouk Wipprecht, een designer die mode en technologie samenbrengt in unieke creaties. Vanaf het begin van haar studie in 2000 is ze bezig geweest met technologie, via technisch ontwerpen op de MTS tot Interaction Design aan de HKU en de universiteit van Malmö. Voor de in Purmerend geboren Anouk werd Nederland dan ook al snel te klein. Zij spreidde haar vleugels en vertrok richting Azië en de VS. Ze maakte onder meer een creatie voor Fergie van de Black Eyed Peas, die gedragen werd op de Super Bowl in 2011, en een jurk voor de Eurovisie Songfestival kandidaat uit Azerbeidzjan in 2012. Op dit moment werkt Anouk vanuit Wenen. Ze is daar in 2012 curator geweest voor de tentoonstelling Technosensual en geeft over de hele wereld lezingen over haar werk.

Waar andere designers stoppen, gaat Wipprecht verder. In haar werk gebruikt ze veel materialen die beweging creëren. Nitinol bijvoorbeeld is een geheugenmetaal dat onder verschillende temperaturen andere vormen aanneemt. Elektronische folie, een materiaalsoort die ze ook regelmatig gebruikt, wordt transparanter op het moment dat de lichaamstemperatuur verandert. De ene keer vormt een concept of verhaal in haar hoofd de basis voor haar ideeën en de andere keer en bepaalde technologie.

Het LED-jasje van Martin Morero in de de film Gooische Vrouwen verbleekt dan ook bij haar creaties. Ze zou een vrouwelijke James Bond kunnen voorzien van alle mogelijke technologische gadgets die je je maar kunt voorstellen. James wierp rookgordijnen op vanuit zijn auto. Anouk geeft Jane haar Smokedress waarmee ze de vijand kan afschudden. Shaken not stirred is passé; Jane Bond draagt een cocktailjurk waarmee ze haar eigen cocktails kan maken. Mocht een schurk haar slaapkamer binnendringen dan zorgt haar jurk van elektronisch folie, de DareDroid2.0, dat haar lichaam weer keurig bedekt wordt.

Haar nieuwste creatie heet Playtimeee en wordt als prototype geshowd op de computertechnologiebeurs Embedded World in Neurenberg welke 26 februari van start is gegaan. Deze roze jurk oogt als een ruimteschip vol roze elektronica. We vinden er onder meer een elektronische hartslag en afneembare spelconsoles in de vorm van vleugels in terug. Wipprecht is hét bewijs dat High Tech niet alleen het domein is van nerds maar dat het ook heel sierlijk en sexy kan zijn.
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source: attoricastingit

Anouk Wipprecht è una stilista olandese nata nel 1985. Ha iniziato la sua formazione sulla moda alla tenera età di 14 anni e sin da piccola, ha sempre visto questo mondo come un’eterna sperimentazione: a livello emotivo, intellettuale e sensuale. Accanto a queste dinamiche, Anouk cerca di realizzare uno stato di connettività tra corpo e abbigliamento. Una fusione tra moda e tecnologia dunque, questa la vera vocazione della stilista olandese Anouk Wipprecht.

All’età di 25 anni, inizia a frequentare dei seminari all’Università di Malmo, che ruotano attorno alla tematica corpo/tecnologia, nel 2010, si laurea presso la Hogeschool voor de Kunsten di Utrecht e collabora con Aduen Darriba al progetto “Technosensual”. Un intenso racconto su accessori intesi come organismi di adattamento.

Oggi Anouk Wipprecht racconta un mondo (anche quello della moda) basato su spazi personali, sull’ipersensibilità e su problemi degli uomini resi più semplici dalla tecnologia moderna, che lei considera un’estensione della pelle. Le sue collezioni infatti, sono ricche di invenzioni tecnologiche applicate ai vestiti: ragni meccanici posti sulla parte superiore dell’abito, con zampe che si agitano quando qualcuno si avvicina; abito che si trasforma in fumo.

Anouk Wipprecht vanta collaborazioni molto importanti, Fergie dei Black Eyed Peas ad esempio. Per lei, la stilista olandese ha progettato delle scarpe luminescenti, che ha indossato durante XVI Superbowl.