Fashioning science: the next revolution in wearables

After a slow start, fashion and science are finally coming together and wearable technologies are no longer a thing of the future.
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Image: Suzanne Lee’s “BioCouture” research project. Lee grows fabric from a fermented tea bath called Komucha. Photo via Inspirare

Fashion has been slow to engage with wearable technologies, but this is all changing very quickly, now extending beyond digital technologies to cutting-edge fashion and science collaborations.

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Danielle Wilde
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Visiting research Fellow, Centre for Smart Materials and Performance Textiles at RMIT University.