“Manus x Machina” on the Runways: How Fashion and Technology Fused This Season Inline
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com1/9Chanel Fall 2015 Couture
Karl Lagerfeld’s love of technology is well known—Choupette has her own iPad, after all. His Fall 2015 couture collection at Chanel married the house’s traditional techniques with new technologies, the prime examples being the rich tweed suits woven through 3-D-printed lattices.
Photo: Kim Weston Arnold / Indigitalimages.com2/9Louis Vuitton Spring 2016
“We are all living with this new dimension,” said Nicolas Ghesquière at his Spring 2016 Louis Vuitton show. “We are all managing how to integrate these new notions of digital, virtual, and cyber with our real life.” Ghesquière’s solution was to infuse ready-to-wear with techno twists pulled from anime series and futuristic movies like 2046 and Tron: Legacy.
Photo: Monica Feudi / Indigitalimages.com3/9Miu Miu Spring 2016
Miu Miu’s candlestick illustrations were drawn by hand by Eri Wakiyama and transformed into digital patterns on dresses, shirts, and separates worn layered with Mrs. Prada’s whimsical creations.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigitalimages.com4/9Loewe Spring 2016
At Loewe, Jonathan Anderson imagined high-tech fabrics like PVC and plastic as loose trousers and luxurious It bags. Mixed in with natural textures like leather and suede, those surprising materials took on a new highbrow life.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigitalimages.com5/9Lanvin Spring 2016
A photograph that appeared in New York magazine was transformed into a digital print at Lanvin, which was then covered in sequins for an Instagram-ready effect.
