Fairytale Fashion created by Diana Eng

Fairytale Fashion is using technology to create a collection of magical clothing in real life (with blooming flowers, transforming shapes, changing colors, etc.) for Feb. 2010. We share our work in weekly research and development web videos. You can help us create the designs by answering the design question at the end of each video.

10/1	Introduction
10/5	Biomimetic Deployable Structures
10/12	Translating Deployable Structures into Fabric
10/19	Designing with Deployable Structures
10/26	Inflatables
11/2	Exploring Electronics at the MIT Media Lab
11/9	Conductive Materials: Playing with Drawdio
11/16	LEDs (light emitting diodes)
11/30	Computer Programming
12/7	Trends and Statistics
12/14	Mobius Strip, One-Sided Fashion
2/24	Fairytale Fashion Show

Is there a topic you would like to see covered in an episode? Please drop us a note and let us know.

From October 2009 to February 2010, I will be making magical clothes for Fairytale Fashion. These might be clothes that have blooming flowers, living clothes that breathe, change color, transform. And guess what, YOU will be leading the design! Fairytale Fashion depends on your participation. How do you participate? Each Monday, FairytaleFashion.org will have a new video that introduces a technology like inflatables, deployable structures, muscle wire and microcontrollers. At the end of each video is a design question. Answer the weekly design questions on our website. I will use your answers to create the Fairytale Fashion. Finally, the finished garments will be presented in a fashion show in early 2010.

As a fashion designer who works with science and technology, I've learned about some really amazing things. I've had some great experiences as a designer: sitting front row at fashion week, working at various fashion companies, researching at the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Dept., being a designer on Project Runway, working in Victoriai's Secret Research and Development department, and co-founding NYC Resistor hacker group. When I was a little girl, I wish that my friends and I knew about some of the things I know today. We would have loved to play with them. Dress-up with super sparkling LED's. Imagining worlds made of deployable structures. I want to share all of the neat things I've learned, because no matter what your age, science and technology are always fun to play with.

You may not be able to sew or solder or draft a pattern or program a microcontroller. But that's okay because Fairytale Fashion is about imagining the possibilities. I will be trying my best to make them happen.

Diana Eng

Fairytale Fashion is produced with the support of

	Diana Eng Creator and Designer of Fairytale Fashion
	Dave Clausen Electrical Engineer When he's not helping Diana make dresses light up, Dave can usually be found at his day job writing software for the financial industry, or climbing up the side of a mountain with a ham radio in his backpack. http://dclausen.net
	Matthew Borgatti Assistant Designer Matt has been everything from a movie monster maker to product designer, puppet wrangler, author, illustrator, engineer, and has worked in the illustrious fields of Ill Advised Costuming and Misguided use of Machine Tools. He's a finely educated RISD graduate with several years of Hacklab frequenting under his belt. http://sinbox.org
	Meredith Zuchman Assistant Meredith lives in Brooklyn where she is finishing her masters degree in Industrial Design at Pratt Institute. In a former life, she was a jewelry designer, amateur photographer, and waitress extraordinaire. One day in the future, Meredith hopes to be as lovable as her yellow lab, Asia.
	Harim Song Videographer Harim is a Film, Animation, Video graduate from RISD and is currently studying Interactive Media (Digital Art Dept.) at Pratt to get her MFA. She enjoys making fun videos and animations and learning programming tools to make even cooler projects :) http://harimsong.com
	Luther Cherry Student Intern Luther Cherry is currently a Junior and cello major at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts. Luther loves fashion, and considers himself pretty fierce. In his spare time he writes a fashion blog, and makes bracelets out of various materials he finds around the town and his house.