- “Internet dress” mixes human and robotic elements
- Designer Maximilian Raynor spent almost a month to make this dress
- No, it’s not for sale
In a merger of technology and haute couture, fashion designer Maximilian Raynor has unveiled a dress like no other.
Made from 12,000 feet of reused fiber optic cable, the 50 -pound dress is a striking representation of the physical shape of the Internet.
The dress was created thanks to a collaboration between Raynor and the Equinix web hosting company.
Following the traces of the parade on the theme of the Chanel data center in 2016 and the recent IBM project, transforming chip fab sounds into music, the dress, named ProjectMax, made its debut before London Fashion Week, Transforming the head with its complex and futuristic conception.
A “Internet” dress
Raynor, known for having designed avant-garde pieces for celebrities like Lady Gaga and Chappell Roan, described the dress as the “personification of the Internet itself”.
He explained: “I imagined a character who is the incarnation of the data – something robot, somewhat human – emerging from a bunch of threads to create this dramatic look.”
In addition to the internet cables thrown, the dress uses metal nuts and bolts from 260 Equinix data centers in 33 countries.
Raynor spent 640 hours for weaving the extensible clothing of 25 kg together, but it is not for sale and will not be reproduced, serving only as a room.
“Filling the gap between physics and virtual, we wanted to create something tangible that works as a subject of unique discussion to highlight the thousands of connections created by Equinix to support economies and companies every day”, Bruce Owen , President Emea d’Equinix, Emea d’Equinix, said the dynamics of the data center.
“The design pays tribute to the physicity of the vital infrastructure that constitutes the Internet,” he added.
“Rather than a kind of strange or inexplicable force that can just work, it is a physical and complex network of cables, crossing the land and the sea and creating physical connections housed in the Equinix data centers in the world.”
