Images: Pieces from The Shell final major project

The inspiration to study smart textiles and wearable technologies started with Hussein Chalayan’s highly creative fashion pieces, enriched with a wide-ranging scientific and technological knowledge.  This talented innovator is among a number of designers who are looking to the future rather than the past and incorporating futuristic technologies into their work, imagining, as designers such as Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin did in the 1960s, a transition of this kind of technology from science fiction to reality. 

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