Lumen Couture, a ready-to-wear line fusing technology and fashion, lately launched a new cutting-edge technology. The designs feature innovative inserts (a thin flexible LED matrix) that can display images, text, and videos controlled via Bluetooth from a phone to garment. The garments also reply to sound with an ‘equalizer’ visualizer functionality.
Klukas, who launched the first evening tech wear collection last year, has also previously debuted designs at CES, participating in tech-forward fashion shows from 2014-2019. With her new work, she is focusing on fashion-forward designs and moving away from novelty and decided to move away from CES and launch at a fashion show in a Seattle nightclub instead.
The designs offer limitless diversity in the colors, images, and themes with the ability to change images and videos instantly through a phone app.
In a changing world of fast-fashion, its designer Klukas sought out classic designs that can adapt to the rapidly-changing culture and be sustainable.
The app that controls the panels also offers a “gif” option, embracing the youth culture of trends and memes where an image will have brief cultural relevance.
Klukas started designing fashion with integrated technology in 2013, initially focusing on performance art and spectacle. The new collection, titled “The Matrix Collection” after the flexible LED matrix, is available for retail and special order with designs starting at $75.
