New York exhibit celebrates ties between fashion and technology
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Jean Paul Gautier got inspiration from the internet to design this jumpsuit in 1996
Pierre Cardin cited the space race as a primary inspiration for his innovative design back in the 1960s
Fashion and Technology is the current exhibit at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT)
A life-size projection of Burberry’s 2011 holographic runway show
LilyPad Arduino, a microcontroller board for wearables and e-textiles
This 1930s clutch bag used a socket for closure
In the late 1970s designer Thierry Mugler embraced futurism with reflective silver lamé
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The often symbiotic relationship between fashion and technology is being celebrated by the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT) in New York with an exhibit called, appropriately, "Fashion and Technology." The show uses more than 100 outfits from the museum’s collections to trace 250 years of technological fashion innovations, from early machine-knit knickers to today's wearable electronics.
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