- The “Internet dress” combines human and robotic elements
- The designer Maximilian Raynor spent almost a month doing this dress
- No, it’s not for sale
In a fusion of technology and haute couture, fashion designer Maximilian Raynor has presented a dress like another.
Handmade 12,000 feet of reused fiber optic cable, 50 -pound dress is a surprising representation of the physical form of the Internet.
The dress was created through a collaboration between Raynor and the Equinix web accommodation firm.
Following the steps of the catwalk program with the theme of the Chanel Data Center in 2016 and the recent IBM project that transforms fabulous chips sounds into music, the dress, the name in Projectmax code made its debut before the week of London’s fashion, calling attention to its intricate and futuristic design.
A “Internet made” dress
Raynor, known for designing avant -garde pieces for celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Chappell Roan, described the dress as the “internet personification itself.”
He explained: “I imagined a character that is the incarnation of the data, something that Robot, something human, emerging from a pile of cables to create this dramatic aspect.”
In addition to the discarded Internet cables, the dress uses metal nuts and bolts from the 260 Equinix data centers in 33 countries.
Raynor spent 640 hours intertwining the 25 kg stretch garment, but is not for sale and does not reproduce, it only served as a piece of statement.
“When closing the gap between physicist and virtual, we wanted The president of Equinix. Said Data Center Dynamics.
“The design pays tribute to the physical infrastructure that constitutes the Internet,” he added.
“Instead of a kind of strange magic or inexplicable strength that happens that it works, it is a physical and intricate network of cables, crossing land and sea and creating physical connections housed in Equinix data centers worldwide.”
