The year was 2014, and the designer was Richard Nicoll. The talented Central St Martins graduate mesmerized his FROW with a stunning illuminated garment that proved to be the London Fashion Week star of the runway.
Created with a fabric called Lumigram, a fiber optic textile, the slip dress was forged from a network of fibre optic cables. Bragging high powered LEDs sewn into the fabric, Nicoll’s design was all about when technology met fluidity. The dress, created in partnership with Disney, was reminiscent of a jellyfish, hence the name The Jellyfish Dress.
When it comes to the main technical specs of the dress there isn’t much that the dress can do. The slip, which operated on a small battery, is not a connected wearable, nor did it aim to be. It was not designed to connect to your phone via Bluetooth, instead Nicoll designed The Jellyfish Dress so you stand out beautifully!
Founding editor-in-chief of FashNerd.com, Muchaneta is currently one of the leading influencers writing about the merger of fashion with technology and wearable technology. She has also given talks at Premiere Vision, Munich Fabric Start and Pure London, to name a few. Besides working as a fashion innovation consultant for various fashion companies like LVMH Atelier, Muchaneta has also contributed to Vogue Business, is a senior contributor at The Interline and an associate lecturer at London College of Fashion, UAL.
