Judy

Now I'm a Jetson's fan as much as the next child of the 80's - but I will never embrace any rendition of spandex silver space suit; Impractical ( Tailored shoulders are one thing, but have you seen Judy and Jane’s lapels? Eye hazard much…), Unflattering (slip the word spandex into any clothing description and most women over 30 go running for the hills), and just because the costume designer for Metropia thinks that’s the future for fashion doesn’t mean the rest of us need to follow suit…

Now contemporary (NOT futuristic) is a niche that I feel very comfortable with. Minimalistic being the current goal of contemporary designers, an influx of transparent pants, cut-outs, and blouses have been turning up everywhere from runways to the streets giving new and almost literal meaning to "what you see is what you get"



Many designs have been inspired from "new fangled ideas" found everywhere around us; art, architecture, and abounding technological advances...
(Harry Potter invisibility cloak anyone? http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/11/tech-invisible.html)

One item that specifically catches my interest is Yasmin Sethi’s Alice Chess Set.

The glass playing pieces are opaque when they’re off the chessboard and become transparent when in play, each revealing a traditional chess piece encased inside.

The chessboard is made out of glass that has LED's embedded in it; the pieces are coated with a material called "mirona", which is opaque, but becomes transparent when a light shines through it. When a piece is placed on the board it completes the circut and lights up the LED under it, becoming transparent, like magic!

It's based on the book "Alice Through the Looking Glass", the magically appearing pieces are a callback on how a chess piece has no value unless it is in play on the board. If removed from the board, a pawn and a queen are equal, in that neither have any value.

Thought that was pretty cool....

xoxo love S