Feel the Tree, Be the Tree...

Fashion Emporium Editor — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:47:22 EST

Photos: J.B. Spector/the Museum of Science and Industry

Most women love an event where they can get dressed up all princess-debutant-like. For ladies like myself, those events don't come along too often.

I jump at the chance to enter a room (late of course) where everyone stops sipping from their champagne glasses and Cosmos. They look at you because you look stunning. The bartender's jaw drops as his bottle of Dom Perignon slips out of his hands and crashes to the floor. A woman slaps the satisfied smile off her gawking date's face. A man asks "who is that?" and his friend answers "I don't know, but I wish I did...."

Okay. That scenario has never happened to me. Usually, I'm the one standing at the bar in a boring, safe black dress. Im dipping a napkin in soda water, trying to remove horseradish dip stain off my dress which bursted out of the fried seafood hors d'oeuvre when I bit into it. PS, no one is telling me that the parsley garnish is still stuck in my teeth.

But, surely this dress constructed from 24,000 full color LEDs made by a London based design duo should grab attention, unless there are blind people in the room.

"We used the smallest full-color LEDs, flat like paper, and measuring only 2 by 2 mm. The circuits are extra-thin, flexible and hand-embroidered on a layer of silk in a way that gives it stretch so the LED fabric can move like normal fabric with lightness and fluidity.” say designers Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, the creators of the Galaxy Dress

Check out this site called Cute Circuit that creates what it refers to as wearable technology and interaction design.

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Feel the Tree, Be the Tree...