[...] If fashion is obsessed with the past what would it take for it to truly embrace the future? Designer Hussein Chalayan continues to toy with the idea that fashion’s future lies in the hands of function as well as style and if this is correct then it could be possible that the future is nigh. According to Japan Times online a professor at the graduate school of the University of Tsukuba has developed a cyborg-type robot suit, to be worn by the disabled. It’s already in use and is programmed to read the signals of the brain thus enabling disabled wearers to move their limbs. Incredible right? [...]

I beg to differ about fashion being in a “State of Emergency”. In the last two years, we have seen several shows on fashion makeovers, budget fashion shopping, and designer competitions…Designer jeans, jean washed t-shirts, and designer celebs are the talk of who’s who. The fashion internet business is a $64 billion dollar business and it is expected to grow anopther $13.5 billion in 2007. We at http://www.lukablu.com see the growth and potential in this community and so do the large players like Neiman Marcus, Saks, and Bloomingdales. Click and Mortar sites are doing more on a continued bases to give back to the small but evergrowing community. The only emergency that I see is that banking centers are not behind the true technology and that Large designers do not support the individual support small Click and Mortars offer.
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Frank Galainena
Chief Operations Officer
LUKABLU

I absolutely agree! And I believe that it’s going to go both ways - fashion enhanced technology and technology enhanced fashion.

Just took a look at blogging in motion!! Quite amazing, the picture quality isn’t too bad. Thanks for that, will publish a little post about it.x

I must say I too am excited about the impact of technology on fashion. The possibilities seem limitless…
Like the purse/camera/blogging thing the winners of yahoo’s hack day created that sends pictures it takes during the day to your blog.
And the impact of the web on the availability of content and photos.