Technology got married to style long back, and the couple received a warm welcome by the entire consumer world. It was as early as the mid-1930’s when nylon was invented and the ’60s when Spandex was stretching out across the world. These two developments marked the amalgamation of fashion with technology. And now, fashion and technology have fused together so well that its even to difficult to draw a line between the two. iPod cases by Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Juicy Couture, Nano-concealing tie and a commuter shirt that hides the fluorescent mini-jukebox....all these illustrate technology in fashion or vice versa. Levi’s RedWire DLX jeans have an iPod ‘docking station’ implanted into the pocket which have a sewn-in control panel so wearers don’t have to constantly take the iPod out of the jeans to fiddle with functions is a great example of merging fashion and technology. An Austrian company by the name Trash Design Manufaktur makes accessories and jewellery out of computer keys, cellphone buttons, wires and cables. Technology is sexier than ever and its going to be even more fashionable. Not very far is the time when people will actually wear a Caps Lock necklace, an Ethernet-woven bracelet. Source
