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Now Introducing Something Really Unique: Wearable Weather Fashion
Image Source: Combined images from ValerieLamontagne.com
This innovative designer has created a line of weather fashion, called Peau d’Âne—based on the Charles Perrault fairytale. If you’re unfamiliar with the fairytale: A young princess basically wishes to avoid marrying her stepfather, so she orders him to have 3 dresses made for her of impossible materials: sky, sunlight, and moonbeams. This is the very inspiration for Lamontagne’s designs.
Peau d’Âne is comprised of 3 dresses, each of which represents one of the 3 dresses mentioned in the story. The extremely amazing part is each dress is actually affected by the weather. How? Well, according to her website:
“MAX/msp is used for compiling and keeping track of the data from the Weather Davis (temperature, UV, solar radiation, wind speed & velocity, humidity, rain fall). A set number of data parameters have been created for each of the dresses based on the weather readings particular to that dress. This data is sent out wirelessly via Xbee communication to embedded micro-controllers. Custom-built circuit boards receive data sent from MAX and relay these to the internal circuitry of the dress, effecting real-time changes which transform the dresses in unique ways.”
So, how does each dress work?
Well, the Sun Dress contains 128 LED lights that light up according to data from the sun. The Moon Dress has 14 flowers that open and close, depending on each phase of the moon cycle. The Sky Dress has 14 air pockets that will puff out in accordance with wind and cloud data. The designs are certainly unique and I don’t think I’ll ever look at weather, or fashion, quite the same way again.
By Heidi Marshall
Tags: design, fashion, Moon Dress, Peau d’Ane, Sky Dress, Sun Dress, Valerie Lamontagne, weather
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