Tech-infused excessive style meets insectile aesthetic
— October seventeenth, 2025
On this planet of FashionTech — a discipline that blends high fashion design and mechatronics engineering — no person has extra expertise than Anouk Wipprecht. Her personal creations are all the time intriguing, however she additionally mentors college students to assist them understand their very own visions. As a part of a collaboration between Summa Style and Fontys Faculty of Engineering, Wipprecht and a workforce of scholars created these insectile clothes for Dutch Design Week 2025, which shall be displayed at Manifestations.
“Like Bugs” is a part of the BeCreative minor and, because the identify suggests, it depends on insect our bodies for inspiration. Every of the taking part college students examined a wide range of bugs, paying shut consideration to the best way they moved. These college students then included components of the bugs’ our bodies and actions into their style designs.
With Wipprecht’s steerage, the scholars introduced their designs to life utilizing Arduino UNO Rev3 boards to manage elements like LEDs and motors. The scholars, together with Fiyo van Ravenstein of Fontys and Lennard Sap of Summa, made use of a wide range of fabrication strategies, from conventional stitching to cutting-edge 3D printing, to create their clothes. Then, they built-in the Arduino boards and digital elements to boost the dynamic components.
One design has fluttering dragonfly-like wings, actuated by servo motors beneath the management of an Arduino. One other has a glowing skirt illuminated by LEDs, bringing to thoughts imagery of summer season fireflies.
All the college students’ designs are certain to impress, each for his or her modern qualities and for his or her underlying engineering. Audiences will be capable to view them from October 18th to the 26th at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven and extra data for the occasion is on the market on the Manifestations web site.
Images by Eline den Hond
