Transformer Dress

Hussein Chalayan Spring/Summer 2007 ‘Transformer’
"Chalayan teamed up with engineering firm 2D3D to create dresses that transformed themselves.
Basically, the dresses were driven electronically by controlled, geared motors. We made… little pads for the models… within these containers we had all the battery packs, controlling chips—the micro-controllers and micro-switches—and little geared motors. The motors we used were tiny, about a third of the size of a pencil and nine millimeters in diameter. Each of the motors had a little pulley, and the pulley was then attached to this monofilament wire which was fed through hollow tubes… running everywhere, carrying these little cables, each doing its little job, lifting things up or releasing little linked metallic plates. There was a huge amount of stuff going on beneath the clothes.