Intel enters the European fashion market by collaborating
with Hussein Chalayan at Paris Fashion Week
As the worlds of fashion and technology continue to converge, Intel remains at the forefront of the movement, experimenting with new ways to unleash the creativity of designers and brands as they look to integrate new technologies into their collections and runway shows. Prolific designer Hussein Chalayan, for example, today unveiled the work he carried out in conjunction with Intel for his runway show at Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017. His unique glasses and belts, powered by Intel technology, illustrate the potential of future integrations between fashion and technology to bring new projects and concepts to life.
Wearables with Intel Inside interpret stress by projecting adaptive visuals
Chalayan’s Spring/Summer 2017 collection and runway show incorporate connected accessories, equipped with Intel technology, that help to become aware of stress and proactively manage it.
– Elegant stress-detecting connected glasses: powered by the Intel® Curie™ module, a tiny product that offers designers and makers the ability to add functions to many objects, these glasses collect biometric data from their user using encephalogram, heart rate, and breathing sensors, for real-time assessment
o The Intel® Curie™ module has an integrated Bluetooth LE connection that communicates biometric data to another piece of equipment (such as a smartphone, for example). In this demonstration, the data is sent to a belt.
o The goggles are equipped with capacitive electrodes that measure the electroencephalogram (EEG) to capture asymmetric waves due to brain activity, as well as an optical heart rate sensor to measure heart rate variations, and a microphone to measure respiratory rate.
– Powerful connected belts: thanks to the Intel® Compute Stick pocket PC, about the size of a pack of chewing gum, the belts capture the biometric data sent by the goggles, and translate it into visualizations that help interpret the user’s stress level. A small Pico projector is housed in the belts, and displays the visualizations in real time on a wall, as the models move around the runway. The projected images provide a powerful cue for the user, who can then use stress-reduction methods to make the images change in correlation with her body’s responses.
Intel and Hussein Chalayan explore emotions and personal expression in the digital world
Intel and Hussein Chalayan presented five studies using these unique glasses and belts to illustrate the potential of future integrations between fashion and technology. The theme of the “Room Tone” collection and show centers on “the here and now of London life”. It consists of a series of five studies exploring reactions to the attitudes and realities experienced in everyday life in London, and proposing ways of optimizing them.
Following Paris Fashion Week, these five studies will be presented in the “Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World” exhibition at London’s Design Museum, from November.
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