HeartBeatDress – Anouk Wirecht x Swarovski || ‚Wearable Eotions‘ – FESCH.TV

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HEARTBEATDRESS
wearables x emotional interfaces

In collaboration with a leading crystal manufacturer, Dutch FashionTech Designer Anouk Wipprecht releases her new 3D printed ‚HeartBeatDress‘ – a dress that records and broadcasts something very ‚intimate‘ to you as a provocation to be true to your feelings.

“At the dawn of this Modern Age, technology has given us the flexibility to investigate endless opportunities with electronics that have become smaller and smaller. Over the past 20 years, I’ve been connecting our bodies to electronics and integrate this through robotic fashion design. What does it mean when we can connect technological-expressive garments to our bodies, body signals, and even emotions?” the designer questions.

Reaching farther than curiosity, Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht’s creations combine haute couture aesthetics with digital technology that examines the behavioral, neurological, and emotional states through visceral interaction. With a forward-thinking vision, she believes high-tech fashion is the key to a deeper understanding of how we process our emotions and their effects on our minds and bodies.

One of her new deviously disruptive designs is a piece she’s developed with crystal-maker Swarovski that uses built-in sensors, robotics, sound and light to respond in time with the wearer’s heartbeat.

Crystal meets Tech

It sounds simple and maybe even poetic, putting one’s vital force on display, but it’s also incredibly revealing. Making you wear your ‚heartbeat on your sleeve‘. Imagine wearing the thing while talking to a special someone you’d like to be more than just friends with, or how about a job interview or that hot date? They’ll be able to see that your heart is pounding with fear or excitement.

Anouk was about 14 years old when she fell in love with fashion because of its „expressive and communicative“ nature. With the study of design, she discovered robotics. „For me, robots basically have the brain and heartbeat that I wanted my fabrics and garments to have.“ This is what drove her to create „intelligent couture.“