No traditional catwalk, but stories, designs and images of more that 25 fashion designers and experts in Utrecht Centrum. Come and join our story of fashion!

21st of April 13.00 18.00 o’clock. Locations: Hotel Dom, UCK, Springers, Designercafe
13.30 – 14.30 Lectures Fashion & Technology Marina Toeters – by-wire.net & Meg Grant – meggrant.com

More info: infashionutrecht.nl

Article by Monique van de Ven / Cursor

We did an experiment to make new material out of old synthetic fabrics. Thijs Rijkens, student Product Design HKU, made an rotating heating system with little holes to press the material around, as a ‘suikerspin-machine’. Here a small collection of jewelry and garment parts. More info about Thijs’ work: thijsrijkers.nl

Together with

we wrote a paper about the education of electronic textiles on different institutes. Read the paper on The ISEA-website >>

Marina Toeters from by-wire.net explores innovation in material use. On the 27th of October Marina Toeters got the change to give a presentation to the participants of The Green Fashion Competition. The topics were new textiles, innovative production processes for fashion and – the for by-wire.net new topic – design as service. The location of the presentation was the auditorium of the wonderful Textile Museum in Tilburg.

Since August 2010 by-wire.net and Marina Toeters are working for Philips on the straps to attach the Pain Relief Patch onto the body. The patch and straps are soon for sale at the pharmacy shops in Germany under the name Philips Blue Touch. by-wire.net was involved in the research and development areas prototyping >>, user comfort, product design >>, material (textile) research >>, fitting / sizing and production sourcing >>. More info (in German): http://www.led-schmerztherapie.de/ Later hopefully more detailed pictures of the strap itself.

a litle bit of soap with this article: Over bodyscans, antibacteriële jurken en ultrasone bh’s.
Read more: http://alittlebitofsoap.wordpress.com/tag/marina-toeters/

Thanks Christophe of Bright.nl for this nice article
Find images and read more critics on: http://www.bright.nl/modebewust-naar-de-maan

Here already one critical remark from Bomboora: “De mode industrie die op aarde gigantisch vervuilend is en mensen aanzet om ieder seizoen kleren te vervangen gaat nu hetzelfde doen op de maan? Gaan ze dan beweren dat we niet meer gekleed zijn volgens de laatste maanfase mode ? Geef die eikels toch geen publiciteit.”
Thanks Bomboora! You are very right about the polution from the fashion industry. Lets work on this problem.