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Maggie Orth is tired of high-tech gadgets encased in hard, shiny plastic. Instead, she weaves 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...
...huge snafu with my concentration when they essentially demanded I stay over the summer to work on a research thesis in neurobiology. Meanwhile, let me give you some actual thesis projects actual VES concentrators have told me about. First, there was a study in which someone made a dress with a train as long as Harvard Yard and then walked across the Yard while filming it. End of thesis. Second, one concentrator redid the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into, yes, Ninja Turtle porn. I don’t care what you may want to say about me not understanding...
...group that itself appears almost self-evident. Since the release of “Spirit They’ve Gone,” the band has reveled in the tensions between their more experimental noise and pop-driven structures. “Sung Tongs” was only a dress rehearsal...
...makeover or a dozen. But have little kids really changed so much? Apparently the trendsetters of today need Strawberry Shortcake in a cool “Blossom”-style hat and jeans, even if the fact that Strawberry used to wear a way-old-school bonnet and dress never deterred the five-year-old-me from looking to her as my idol. Even the consistently classic Cabbage Patch form has diluted the name by adding on new products such as mini-Cabbage Patch “Pop Star” dolls, because “American Idol?...
...Ramaz School in upper Manhattan, ties are part of the mandatory school uniform. At the age of 15, one student decided to spruce up the required garb by making his own. Now in Lionel, dress codes have been relaxed, but Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 still designs and produces his own line of high-fashion neckties. In 2003, Shemtov spotted a light blue bandanna in his bedroom and decided to sew it into a crude but striking skinny tie. A novice at sewing, he sealed his loose stitches with iron-on name-tags leftover from camp...