The way we dress is a crucial means of self-expression and an assertion of our identity. A disabled person will add that the need for fashionable clothing increases in direct proportion to the severity of their disability and is a vital way to confront and overcome prejudice. Pearlfisher worked with a sharp and stylish young group of users who said what they wanted in no uncertain terms. The result is a clothing collection using a temperature-regulating fabric developed by NASA and with many accessible features that is seriously hot and seriously cool, and a boon in winter for people of all ages with circulatory difficulties.
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Embedded technology, technical textiles, ‘smart’ fabrics, fastenings, accessible features
Design a mainstream product, service, environment, print, online or other communication which deliberately includes the needs and aspirations of currently excluded groups of people.
Packaging, communications, transport, retail environments and the new area of ‘smart wearables’ – the intersection between functional fashion, new textiles and embedded technology.
