lightning
Wear a lightning storm.
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Awards and shows
2017: Textiles and Technology Award, Surface Design Association 2017 Annual International Exhibition In Print
2017: Third Place, Fashion Technology, Golden Scissors Fashion Show, San Diego, CA
2017 Luminous Fashion Show, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA
2017 Fashion Technology Fashion Show, Mesa College San Diego, CA
Light and motion
The Lightning dress uses fiber optics to display "lightning" flashes on four separate syncopated channels.
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construction
Fiber optic filaments shine through light-translucent fabric printed with a photograph of lightning.
A fiber optic design is arranged under the surface textile to compliment the photographic image
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design
Inspired by the power of lightning to reshape the landscape and recolor the sky with light.
Large format photographic sublimation used to print the front and back panels of the dress
Photo credit: Jeff Sholk