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An Alpine choir pivoted on hydraulic platforms as part of French fashion house Moncler’s Autumn Winter 2014 presentation at New York Fashion Week, which concludes today (+ movie).

Moncler created an audio-visual installation called Winter Symphony to showcase the brand’s Moncler Grenoble ski and winter wear collection at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday.

Members of the ten-piece Pendulum Choir stood on small platforms and were strapped to the mechanisms around the torso, legs and feet as they sang an updated version of a traditional Alpine song.

Dressed in down-filled morning suits, the nine singers and one conductor tilted in various directions as pistons behind their backs and under their feet contracted and expanded.

Behind them, sixty male and female choir members dressed in black and white Moncler outfits stood in rectangular boxes stacked four levels high.

Each box was illuminated around the edges, separated from each other so they appeared to float in the darkened theatre.

Lights shining on the choir members flashed as the larger collective joined in singing with the smaller group.

The presentation took place on 8 February during New York Fashion Week, which finishes today.

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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Suzanne Lee of BioCouture explains how she makes clothes that are “grown using bacteria” in this movie filmed at the Wearable Futures conference in London in December.

“There’s a whole spectrum of organisms that can grow material,” says Lee, who founded BioCouture to explore how organisms like bacteria, yeast, fungi and algae could be harnessed to produce fabrics.

Lee showed the Wearable Futures audience a range of jackets and shoes made from bio-materials produced by bacteria in a vat of liquid to produce bacterial cellulose – a material that has similar properties to leather.

“The recipe that I’ve been exploring to grow a piece of clothing is using a symbiotic mix of yeast and bacteria,” she said. “It’s a fermentation method that grows you bacterial cellulose. It’s kind of like a vegetable leather if you like.”

She adds: “What attracts me to it is that it’s compostable. It’s not just biodegradable, it’s compostable. So you could throw it away like you would your vegetable peelings.”

BioCouture is a London-based design consultancy that is pioneering the use of bio-materials for the fashion, sportswear and luxury sectors.

Lee is a former senior research fellow at the School of Fashion & Textiles at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, and author of the 2007 book Fashioning The Future: tomorrow’s wardrobe, which was the first publication to explore how technology could transform fashion.

“Through an engagement with biology I’m really excited about how we can think about organisms like microbes as the factories of the future,” says Lee. “What most people know BioCouture for is a series of garments that were grown using bacteria. So the fibres, the material itself and the formation of the garment has been done by a microbe rather than a plant.”

In future, Lee believes that clothing materials themselves could be living organisms that could work symbiotically with the body to nourish it and even monitor it for signs of disease.

“What we have right now are living organisms making us materials, but then the organism is killed and the material just exists like any other,” she says.

“But I can imagine that we will eventually move towards the material itself being living while it’s on you, and having a direct relationship to your whole body in this happy micro-biome environment and perhaps diagnosing and treating, nourishing in some way the body surface so becoming part of your wellbeing.”

The two-day Wearable Futures conference explored how smart materials and new technologies are helping to make wearable technology one of the most talked-about topics in the fields of design and technology.

The music featured in the movie is a track by DJ Kimon. You can listen to his music on Dezeen Music Project.

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers is a year-long collaboration with MINI exploring how design and technology are coming together to shape the future.

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Japanese design studio Nendo has installed screens based on wrought iron fences in the women’s clothing section of Tokyo‘s Seibu department store so it resembles a European city park (+ slideshow).

Brands and product displays on Seibu‘s third floor change rapidly, so Nendo designed modifiable fixtures for the space that look like street furniture in parks.

“Our design took inspiration from the wrought iron fences surrounding the parks, squares and other green spaces in European cities,” said the designers.

The decorative white screens are suspended from the ceiling, dividing the space and doubling as rails for hanging the garments.

These can be taken down and reinstalled in other areas of the store to change the layout.

Manequins are hung on wires attached to rails on the ceiling, so they can also be relocated.

A herringbone pattern of plastic tiles in shades of grey to represent paving spreads across the entire floor surface.

Wooden pedestals resembling planters display accessories on their illuminated tops.

Shoppers can rest on outdoor furniture such as low seating and park benches, some of which are used to present folded clothes.

In the changing rooms, artificial plants that match the colours of the walls crawl down from the lit gaps along the ceiling edges.

Photographs are by Masaya Yoshimura.

Here’s some text from Nendo:

The multi brand and shared areas for the women’s clothing floor on the third floor of the Seibu department store in Tokyo’s Shibuya. The ‘contemporary luxury’ floor presents multiple brands together in a unified environment, but each brand needs to be gently distinguished from the others.

The brands’ lineup and product arrangement change at a dizzying pace, so the fixtures needed to be easily modifiable.

Our design took inspiration from the wrought iron fences surrounding the parks, squares and other green spaces in European cities. We created screens based on these fences, and suspended them from the ceiling as hanger racks for the clothes. The screens are easy to remove and relocate, and have built-in lighting to illuminate the clothes. They come in seven different patterns, to give each brand a distinctive look.

We also created ceiling-suspended shelves, as well as low floor fixtures inspired by park benches and a bench reminiscent of a fountain’s edge.

To overcome cost and thickness restrictions for the flooring, we cut ordinary plastic floor tiles into different shapes and created a variegated flooring pattern that recalls cobblestones.

The colourful changing room walls are finished with artificial ivy in different hues, and the changing rooms offer simulated outdoor light as well as indoor light, for checking clothes in a variety of environments.

These designs create a free, lighthearted environment, similar to the experience of strolling in a park.

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Découvrez la dernière collaboration avec le New York City Ballet par JR qui a investi le David H. Koch Theater dans le cadre de la 2ème édition des Art Series. Au cœur du hall du théâtre, un oeil immense composé des 80 danseurs du ballet. Pour Fubiz, voici en exclusivité l’ensemble des œuvres présentées au NYC Ballet.

Portfolio de JR – Site du New York City Ballet

Créé et conçu par Andrea Deppieri, ce projet Head Wood est la première et unique conception en bois, résultant de la combinaison du design industriel de l’architecture et du design de mode. Le concept a pour volonté de façonner un matériau noble comme le bois pour devenir un accessoire confortable de tous les jours.