Intimacy Dress

These days we hardly bat an eyelid when some celebrity or another flashes a little too much skin, provocative dresses and barely there costumes have become de rigueur. Necklines have dropped to below the navel and skirts seem to have disappeared entirely (we’re looking at you Miley).

So we weren’t exactly surprised to learn about the Intimacy dress, a piece of wearable technology that is more likely to be seen on an attention seeking celebutante if ever there was one.

Rather than a dress that simply lights up or bleeps when gazed upon the Intimacy dress is somewhat more, well, intimate. The gown, designed by Daan Roosegaarde, is a garment that aims to bridge the worlds of fashion, wearable tech and intimacy.

In a society where almost every transaction and interaction, including dating, is done online the dress explores the telation between technology and human intimacy; makes sense to us!

The dresses, one black and one white, are made of smart foils that turn the wearers body into a sort of second skin, or interface. The transparency of the dress is determined by how far away the viewer is to the garment but also reacts to any noticeable rise in your heart rate.

Not only that but the dress also becomes instantly transparent with the flash of a light, so not ideal if you’re being hounded by paps all day.

The Intimacy dress is certainly the sexiest piece of wearable technology that we’ve laid our eyes on and probably the most impractical too!

Can you imagine these dresses becoming popular? Would you wear the Intimacy dress?

Watch the video>  http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/intimacy-black/