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...revamping that sofa - but they are big enough to make pillows, sew a skirt, or even cover the seats on a set of dining-room chairs. Attention fabric lovers on a budget: this is one time you'll enjoy cutting your coat (or napkins or lampshades) to suit your cloth...
...metals into soft fabrics to create everything from a jacket that plays music to a cocktail dress that lights up like a firefly. "Injection-molded plastic is not my cup of tea," says Orth, whose Seattle firm International Fashion Machines just released a line of fuzzy light switches--small cloth pompons that turn on or off with a squeeze, thanks to conductive fibers woven into them...
...recent show at the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York City, Orth exhibited a fabric with a hue that alternates from a nearly monochrome gray to a tricolor gray-red-and-green jacquard. The colors appear when electrodes woven into the cloth generate heat, which in turn causes temperature-sensitive dyes in the cloth to change hue. "Making this fabric is like making an interactive painting," says Orth, who has come full circle since her undergraduate days spent painting on canvas...
...sofa-but they are big enough to make pillows, sew a skirt, or even recover the seats on a set of dining-room chairs. Attention fabric lovers on a budget: this is one time you don't have to cut your coat (or napkins or lampshades) to suit your cloth...
Except for that brief period when J.Lo wore a table cloth to the Grammys and the cognoscenti kept talking about the greatness of celebrating a “real lady” with “real curves,” American culture has been sexualizing women who look as if they have been victims of marasmus for the duration of my culturally aware existence. As the public gets progressively larger, Nicole Ritchie gets smaller and, in turn, more famous. It boggles the mind. Lately, however, pint-sized celebrities and models who do cocaine on the front page...